Clever Wherever is a web app that geo-locates someone and warns them about dangers nearby using Department of Transport accident data, police crime data and Google places general data.
The NTSB says the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority reported the problem during a post-accident review of track circuit data, but it was not immediately clear if operators were aware of the problem before the accident.
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The report collated data from across the motor insurance industry over the last year, and also studied police data for road accident injuries.
Representatives for the railroad and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, its parent, didn't answer questions about the age of the rails at the site of the accident or the most recent inspection data, citing the NTSB investigation.
And while most traffic jams are a result of an accident or too many vehicles (or data packets in the case of the Internet) legitimately trying to get from place to place, they can also be slowed down deliberately, as happened in Brussels last September when about 100 trucks slowed traffic entering the city as part of a planned protest.
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She said it wasn't clear if the trains involved in the accident carried devices that recorded speed and other data.
According to the National Safety Council (using Bureau of Labor Statistics data), in 1996 Regals accident incidence rate was 40% lower than the industry average.
Last but certainly not least, the app will dial 911 and up to three emergency contacts when it thinks you've been in an accident -- it figures that out with the data it collects from the Link's accelerometer.
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From 2005 to 2009, it had the highest accident rate of any big Japanese nuclear plant, according to data collected by the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization, a mainly government-funded group.
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One of the lawyers bringing a class action suit against Google alleges that the company filed a patent for using the sort of payload data it collected, proving that this was no accident.
The ESC's studies also included fire and accident trends from the Department of Communities and Local Government and data on the number of high risk electrical items in homes from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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Upgrades are constantly being implemented as new data becomes available, as has happened since the Fukushima accident.
Olansen said operators have recovered memory devices from the wreckage and will be pulling the data off of them for clues to the cause of the accident.
By default, S3 accounts are set to private, which means these stores of potentially sensitive data had to be flipped to public manually -- most likely by accident.
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The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
According to data from the International Air Transport Association, the chance of a commercial Western-built aircraft having an accident last year was one in three million.
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