The agency had recommended the automatic braking system for years before it was mandated by Congress, which extended the original 2015 deadline twice and gave railroads until the end of 2020 to ...

For instance, a study examining leakage during cyclic pneumatic braking underscored how even minor faults in brake pipelines can exacerbate in-train forces and vehicle vibrations, ultimately ...

AKRON – Goodyear and Dutch research firm TNO have developed a new automatic emergency braking system that could make crashes less severe on slick roads. The innovation, announced Jan. 7 by the ...