Safety Activism on the Information Highway

 

 


Law

Read about the social Cost Theory and debate whether helmets should be required by law.
www.motorists.com/social.html

 

Just because your blood-alcohol level is below the legal limit, you're still not necessarily a safe driver.Click here to find out why.
www.hhdev.psu.edu/research/Alcohol.htm

 


Help

Car Accident Circle

A support-group network for survivors and friends and family of car accident victims.
www.stresspress.com/car/spcarcrl.html

 

Situational Awareness Planner Implementing Effective Navigation in Traffic Investigator
How to be a better driver using real-life driving scenarios.
www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/rahuls/www/sapient.html

 


Technology

The Speedtrap Bible
Learn all about the newest technologies such as RADAR, LADAR, Hand-held Radar, TruVelo, Speedmaster, Auto-Vision, VASCAR, and SpeedCheck SVDD. If they sound cool, that's because they are.
www.geocities.com/MotorCity/2195/speedtrap_bible.html#livelink

 


Government Organizations

Department of Transportation
www.dot.gov/

 

Highway Traffic Safety
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

 

National Transportation Safety Board
www.ntsb.gov/

 

Arizona Department of Transportation
Read about the importance of speed limits- what's reasonable, what's unreasonble, and why they're so darn important in the first place.
www.dot.state.az.us/ROADS/traffic/speed.htm

 


Nonprofit Organizations

 

Mothers Against Drunk Driving
www.madd.org

 


Dr. Driving

aloha.net/~dyc/infohiway.html

 

aloha.net/~dyc/testimony.html
Oral and written testimony by Dr. Leon James, Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii to the US House Sub-Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearings on July 17, 1997.

 


Fun

Le Jerque du Jour
Sacre bleu! Click here to see a photo of an idiot armed with a driver's license.
www.got.net/~egallant/winners/jdj_03_15_96.html

 

Beat All Traffic Tickets

For the anarchist driver in all of us.
www.cftnet.com/members/rttravel/

 

The Database of Unsafe Driving
Join this organization's hope that law enforcement agencies and insurance companies take note of this compilation of jerks on the road.
www.comnet.ca/~chezken/duds.html

 

Successful Speeding
If you're gonna be speeding, at least make sure you're doing it the right way.
www2.deskmedia.com/~dev/speeding.phtml

 

DriveSafe- Have you seen some obnoxious teenager driving like the road was his own personal property? Report the little buggerhere, and laugh when his parents ground him for a month .
www.drivesafe.org/rt.htm

 

TEENVUE
Another program that monitors the habits of teenage drivers. Reports to parents notify both good and bad driving habits.
www.goodnet.com/~teenvue/teenvue.htm

 


Statistics

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Dedicated to reducing highway crash deaths, injuries, and property damage losses.
www.hwysafety.org/

 

Highway Loss Data Institute
Closely affiliated with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the HDLI compiles ways in which insurance losses vary among different kinds of vehicles.
www.carsafety.org

 


University Offerings

Princeton University's Directory of Transportation Resources
Information on virtually every single mode of transportation.
dragon.princeton.edu/~dhb/

 

Northwestern University's The Traffic Institute
Serves public agencies responsible for law enforcement, criminal justice, public safety, traffic management, and highway transportation systems.
www.nwu.edu/traffic/ti2.htm