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US’s guardrail system can’t handle heavy EVs, preliminary test crashes indicate

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on ...
Finance & Commerce

Nation’s guardrail system may need to be adapted to handle heavy EVs

LINCOLN, Neb. — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on the ...
The Drive

Watch a 7,000-LB Rivian R1T Destroy a Guardrail in Eyebrow-Raising Test

In the 1990s, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility looked into the then-50-year-old highway guardrail system and found it to be incapable of handling the increasing number of SUVs and pickups at the ...
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The 1% safety guardrail system: How Motional plans to solve the final 10% of deadly road hazards

Laura Major, CEO of Motional—the autonomous driving joint venture of Hyundai Motor Company—has reaffirmed the company's commitment to leading the future market. She announced that preparations for ...