by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 10, 2018 | News
In the last several years a controversy has erupted in South-Western Ontario with respect to the incidence of median cross-over collisions occurring along the 118-kilometre segment of Highway 401 where no median barriers exist. This section of the busy super-highway...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 8, 2018 | News
On high speed highways not all drivers are able to detect stopped vehicles or construction workers ahead of their path. Automatic detection and deployment of automatic emergency braking could be very beneficial but that technology may take a long time to reach the...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 7, 2018 | News
In a CBC news item entitled “Angel who pulled teens from car wreckage says he’s no superhero” the public may be rather skeptical when observing the photograph of the collision site where Richard Kirk found a car upside down in a water-filled ditch near Wolfville, Nova...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 5, 2018 | News
Depending on whose viewpoint, the image of the scales of justice is not always complimentary. (An editorial comment by Zygmunt M. Gorski) Few structures in society are as important as a reliable system of justice. In the end, that reliability rests on the wisdom,...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 4, 2018 | News
In the fall of 2017 the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released figures for the number of roadway deaths that occurred in the U.S. in 2016. 37,461 persons were reportedly killed which represented an increase of 5.6 percent over 2015. This...
by Zygmunt Gorski | Feb 1, 2018 | News
OK, we accept that we live in a new world where the President of the United States has a “I’m Fake News” label stitched to the back of every suit jacket. This is a world where law, justice, wrong and more wrong mean very little. But aside from the Trump vacuum the...