Environmental Benefits from GPS Fleet Tracking
23 Apr 2019GPS fleet tracking is about so much more than getting directions. It offers many benefits for the planet businesses today are seeking to embrace. With increasing consumer concerns over global warming and carbon footprints, it makes sense for businesses to consider the following, planet-friendly benefits from GPS tracking as well.
Here are just a few of the environmental benefits of GPS fleet tracking:
Reduces Fossil Fuel Consumption
Fossil fuels are not only limited resources that will, one day, run out. The refining process required to transform them into usable fuel for vehicles creates harmful emissions that are highly destructive.
GPS routing allows you to create more fuel-efficient routes for your vehicles to take to reach their destination. This reduces the miles they travel and the amount of time they spend on the road. The correlating reduction in fossil fuel consumption and vehicle emissions can have a massive impact on the environment. In a great way.
Teen Driving Statistics
22 Apr 2019The statistics surrounding teen driivng accidents, injuries and death are alarming. Every hour, around 30 teenagers become injured in a vehicle crash that involves an inexperienced driver, reports the National Safety Council. Seven will die each day in these crashes.
Vehicle crashes are the top cause of young adult fatalities and the numbers are increasing. Teenage drivers are almost three times more likely to be in a fatal crash than drivers 20 years old or older. These are just some startling statistics on teen driving by the National Safety Council.
Other statistics are:
- Over 2,800 teenagers in total ages 13 through 19 died in 2016 in vehicle crashes.
- Fifty-six percent of the deaths in 2016 among passenger occupants of vehicles were drivers between the ages 16 and 19.
- Among teens in 2016, 53 percent of vehicle crash-related deaths occurred over a weekend.
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety conducted research showing drivers between 16 and 17 years old are nine times more likely than adults to be involved in a vehicle accident and six times more likely than adults to be involved in a deadly crash.
According to the National Safety Council, 30 teens are injured in auto accidents involving inexperienced drivers every hour and seven will die every day. Auto accidents are the leading causes of teen deaths and young adults (and rising) with teens facing three times greater likelihood of being involved in fatal crashes than drivers over the age of 20.
Perhaps the most alarming new in all this is that most of these accidents are preventable. That is where the Alive at 25 ® program comes into the picture.
What is the Alive at 25 Program?
The Alive at 25 program is a driver safety program that focuses on teaching safe driving skills to drivers between the ages of 15 and 24. The purpose is to instill the importance of defensive driving and raising awareness of poor decisions behind the wheel.
The National Safety Council created this program to address the very serious problem of teen driving and the risks teen drivers face. The program seeks to create positive changes in teen driver behaviors by focusing on four core issues:
- Behavior
- Judgement
- Decision-making
- Consequences
