Remove 2019 Remove Market Remove Personal Remove Statistics
article thumbnail

NHTSA estimates 38,680 traffic fatalities in 2020, up 7.2% from 2019 despite 13.2% drop in VMT

Green Car Congress

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) statistical projection of traffic fatalities for 2020 shows that an estimated 38,680 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes. as compared to the 36,096 fatalities reported in 2019. fatalities per 100 million VMT in 2019. billion miles—about a 13.2%

2019 418
article thumbnail

DOE: Average annual gasoline taxes paid per vehicle, by state, 2019

Green Car Congress

Based on average mpg and miles driven, a person owning a gasoline vehicle pays between $141 and $398 in fuel taxes each year, depending upon the state in which the fuel is purchased. mpg driven 11,484 miles in 2019. Energy Information Administration website, August 2019. Based on a vehicle with an average fuel economy of 22.3

Tax 345
article thumbnail

TRB releases new report identifying deficiencies impacting e-scooter rider safety

Green Car Congress

According to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, there were at least 158 US cities with e-scooter systems as of July 2022, nearly double the 87 systems in operation in 2019. Personal ownership of e-scooters is also growing and projected to increase throughout this decade.

article thumbnail

Flying declined substantially more than driving during the current pandemic

Green Car Congress

In this brief note, I examine the distances traveled by flying and driving in the United States in March and April 2020—the first two months of the current pandemic—and compare them with the corresponding distances in March and April 2019. The results are shown in the table below. Two caveats are in order.

article thumbnail

Inspire Kids to Study STEM with These Educational Resources

Cars That Think

Bureau of Labor Statistics , STEM careers were expected to grow by nearly 9 percent between 2017 and 2029. The Economic Times reported that India experienced a 44 percent increase in STEM jobs from 2016 to 2019. The Danish Technological Institute estimated that the European STEM labor market would grow by 12.1 Girls in STEM.

India 113
article thumbnail

Pfizer’s Edge in the COVID-19 Vaccine Race: Data Science

Cars That Think

When blood and other kinds of samples are brought to the lab, each sample has to be received, tracked, divided up, and analyzed with complex robotics and instruments, and then statistical analysis is performed and final data generated. If the virus is neutralized in the blood, that tells us that the person had built up immunity.

2020 144
article thumbnail

The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

Cars That Think

Bringing Google Home to market When Amazon announced in 2014 it was developing smart speakers with AI assistive technology, a gadget now known as Echo , Google decided to develop its own version. The model was commercialized in 2019 and is now part of Samsung’s Galaxy phone.

Engine 114