US National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark Rosenker said airlines should voluntarily begin incorporating a 15% safety factor when calculating stopping distances on icy or wet runways. He ...

I know it was a long time ago, but there was this interesting discussion about stopping a car on an episode of Car Talk. Should you just brake as hard as possible or should you brake and weave back ...

This story appears in the July 2 print edition of Transport Topics. While shorter stopping distances mandated last year by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration prompted the introduction ...

ABB ROBOTICS' RobotStudio ® offline programming and simulation software has been upgraded with a new, virtual robot braking-distance function designed to create an exact simulation of the real-world ...

Discussions around the latest high-performance car, be it of the electric, pony, sports, super, or hyper variety, tend to focus on the 0 to 60 mph time. Lately, this all-important metric has seen ...

Safety is a paramount concern for many shoppers in choosing their next vehicle, based on our car-buying surveys. Beyond crash test results and advanced safety systems, there is a vital element that ...

What sees less conversation is stopping distance, and considering the ease with which modern performance vehicles reach triple-digit speeds, this should be a more important consideration. To encourage ...