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Automatic driver assist involved in most collisions with freeway maintenance vehicles: 29 crashes in just 3 months

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Taiwan’s National Highway Police Bureau is warning drivers to not be overdependent on automated driver assist systems after reviewing data on the causes of 29 incidents involving cars rear-ending freeway construction and maintenance vehicles so far this year. Police said that an increasing number of cars are equipped with advanced driver assistance Systems (ADAS). While these can reduce the burden on drivers, the systems are not flawless, and the driver still needs to maintain awareness and be able to maintain

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Tesla on Autopilot Plows into Police Car while Driver Dozes

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Highway Patrol officers narrowly escaped death or injury when a car plowed into their parked patrol car despite 100 meters of traffic cones and flashing warning lights placed behind it. At around 10:00 pm, highway police attended the scene of an accident on Freeway 3 in Hsinchu County, and were directing traffic around the site when the driver of a white Tesla sedan slammed into one of two patrol cars. The patrol car was pushed forward by the impact and

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Two Highway Police Injured, one Critically, while attending Breakdown on Freeway

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Two Highway Police officers were injured, and one is in a life-threatening condition, after a car plowed into their vehicle at high speed on National Freeway one in Taoyuan City in the early hours of this morning, November 23. Three officers from the Yangmei Highway Police station were called out to a breakdown in the southbound lanes on the Hukou Road section of the freeway at around 1:00am. The officers stopped their patrol car behind the broken down vehicle with

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Three Highway Police Killed in the Line of Duty

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Three people, including two highway police officers, were killed when a truck slammed into them on National Highway 1 this morning in Tainan. At around 5:30am, police officers pulled over a truck found to be in violation of traffic regulations. While the officers were standing behind the truck, issuing a ticket, another truck slammed into the parked patrol car behind them, crushing the three men between the truck and the patrol car. All three died at the scene of the

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Highway Cop Dies in the Line of Duty

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Traffic Accidents 
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A Highway Police officer died today after a truck plowed into the back of his patrol car as he was parked on the road shoulder behind a broken down car. Five others were injured in the accident. At around 11:00am Officer Chen and Officer Yang pulled up behind the broken down car On Freeway 3 in Hsinchu County to improve visibility and prevent a rear-end accident as a tow truck prepared to move the vehicle. A truck then rear-ended the

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