Latest Driver safety Podcast Episodes

Improving Road & Rail Safety in Ghana with Eric Nyame-Baafi

Global Road Safety - June 24, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
There's a real need to improve road safety in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, says Eric Nyame-Baafi, a road safety consultant for the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety in Ghana.  “A total of 650 people die on African roads every day. A child in Africa is twice as lik...

Road Safety Progress in Emerging Markets - Pakistan with Dr Muhammed Navid Tahir

Global Road Safety - May 04, 2022 15:21 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Every year in Pakistan around 30,000 people die in road accidents. Why, in the world’s fifth largest country, would they have such a high rate of road safety incidents? “If we discuss the major road safety issues in Pakistan, the problem is unfortunately, still we do not have any road ...

How Technology Can Help Tackle Driver Distraction with Paul Ripley & Ted Chen

Global Road Safety - January 04, 2022 17:38 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Every day, roughly 100 people in the United States are killed in road crashes. Globally, that number is approximately Ten to 15% of those deaths are directly attributable to distracted driving.  Driving distracted increases the chances of a motor vehicle crash by at least 23 times. Sta...

The Latest Research on Drugged Driving with Dr. Timothy Brown

Global Road Safety - October 07, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
With safer vehicle designed driver assistance, technology and mountains of data available from monitoring devices, why is it that vehicle crashes and deaths continue to rise?  With the decades of research, public awareness and marketing that has happened around the world with regards t...

Improving Road Safety with Retired NTSB Chairman, Robert Sumwalt

Global Road Safety - August 31, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
With highway fatalities up by 8% compared to the same period in a non pandemic time, whereas vehicle miles travelled has come down, here to discuss what we can be doing as individuals, as companies, as a society, to combat these alarming trends, is Robert Sumwalt, retired NTSB (National...

The Eyes Have It: Visual Skills and Driving Safety with Dr. Sherylle Calder & Andrew Crickmay

Global Road Safety - July 27, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Despite the prevalence of safer vehicle design, driver assistance technology, and a huge wealth of data available from monitoring devices, vehicle crash and death rates continue to rise. With more deaths, more injuries and billions of dollars in annual costs, what can drivers — and the ...

Introducing Global Road Safety

Global Road Safety - July 08, 2021 21:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Introducing Global Road Safety, launching Q3 2021. For more information, visit http://www.drivedifferent.com