Velodyne Lidar Inc (NASDAQ: VLDR) today decreed it is associated with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) for the third year. The collaboration will be for community training inventiveness, concentrating on the security assistance of independent vehicle skills.
Collaboration for Encouraging Benign Thoroughfares
The Velodyne and MADD Collaboration comprises instructive agendas, consciousness movements, and co-sponsored actions to endure to shape public recognition of independent experts to plummet and ultimately remove diminished driving crashes.
MADD Director to speak at Velodyne Lidar LIVE! Event
To revel the third year together, Natasha Thomas, MNM, Executive Director, MADD Northern California, will be the highlighted invitee on a Velodyne Lidar LIVE! Event on August 20 at 10 a.m. PDT. Throughout the webinar, Thomas will speak on the part of independent vehicle skill in moving to the objective of nil bereavements instigated by intoxicated driving.
Since its establishment, MADD has decreased the amount of stoned driving demises by half while serving approximately one million victims of this violent, avoidable crime.
Intoxicated driving claims more than 10,000 lives every year
Yet intoxicated driving endures claiming more than 10,000 lives every year, accounting for more demises on the nation’s thoroughfares than any other reason. Effusively independent vehicle skill has the latent to help avert impaired driving and decrease crashes on roads.
“For nearly 41 years, MADD has functioned to alter actions and approaches toward stoned driving, with a prodigious apportion of achievement. But we have realized that knowledge is vital to getting us to our aim of zero demises produced by stoned driving,” said MADD National President Alex Otte. “Independent automobile skill holds the incredible latent of helping us eradicate stoned driving. That’s why we are so happy to associate with Velodyne.”
“Velodyne and MADD share a binder to progressing security on our roads,” said Sally Frykman, Chief Marketing Officer, Velodyne Lidar. “We trust that independent vehicles are an indispensable part of making our roads harmless, particularly against stoned drivers. As an honored patron of MADD, together, we are functioning to edify the public on the safety assistances of independent vehicles so the skill recognizes its full latent.”