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At the University of Iowa Driving Safety Research Institute, you'll find what looks like an unremarkable airport shuttle bus. However, this vehicle has the ability to drive autonomously and is one of the only buses in the world that can do so on gravel roads.
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Research into automated vehicles is being conducted around the world, but the University of Iowa is likely the only institution doing this research on gravel roads.
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The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics participated in a national study, which found nearly half of Iowa drivers involved in a serious crash had at least one drug in their system.
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When should you start talking to kids about sexuality, consent, and safe relationships? “Birth,” says professor Alison Oliver, who teaches courses on…
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The first injuries and house fires caused by fireworks, recently made legal in Iowa, are on the books.On this edition of River to River, Ben Kieffer talks…
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Hundreds of thousands of people go to work each day preparing the beef, pork and poultry that ends up on our dinner tables. Their workplace is among the…
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New Safety Efforts Are Underway, But Injuries Are Still Part of the Job for Meat and Poultry WorkersThe meatpacking plants that enable American consumers to find cheap hamburger and chicken wings in the grocery store are among the most dangerous places…
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Meatpacking workers call it "the chain." Sometimes "the line," or "la linea." It sets the pace for all work done at meat processing plants, production…
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The nights were often worse for Gabriel, even after long days working on the production line at a pork slaughterhouse in Nebraska.He had nightmares that…
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On the worst day of Greta Horner's life, she was dressed in a burlap robe, waiting by the window for her husband to come home from work.The couple was…