by Zygmunt | Apr 2, 2019 | Articles
Manufacturers design vehicles to pass safety tests, not necessarily to pass tests of real life collisions. This distinction could cost you your life. In the real world the cost of a $0.12 part can make a massive difference in profit when a manufacturer builds a...
by Zygmunt | Mar 24, 2019 | Articles
Thanks to a CBC Go Public news segment some news about vehicles fires has been leaked into the public domain. But far too many are never officially reported, let alone known by the public. The Go Public program indicated that Chris Dietrich of Ayr Ontario submitted a...
by Zygmunt | Mar 20, 2019 | Articles
Police have an obligation toward their safety, and drivers around them, to take note of how they perform traffic stops on high speed expressways. In an earlier article posted to this website on February 20, 2019 we reported on a proper and safe positioning at a police...
by Zygmunt | Mar 19, 2019 | Articles
It does not take much to recognize the large percentage of pedestrians that are close to traffic while communicating with their smart phones. There is no fine for doing so. Yet, if they were driving a motor vehicle they would face a heavy fine. It becomes problematic...
by Zygmunt | Jan 20, 2019 | Articles
What is the difference between a “recommendation” and a “requirement”?. Do those two words conjure up different understandings? They should when persons’ lives are at stake. The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) seemed to make it...
by Zygmunt | Jan 19, 2019 | Articles
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board has criticized the lack of crash standards for transit buses as a result of the multi-fatal Transpo bus crash in Ottawa January 11, 2019. Yet the lack of protection of bus passengers has been visible for many years without...