America has a dangerous epidemic of distracted driving that can strongly increase the risk of harm to everyone on the roads. With the rise of the Digital Age, texting and driving has become particularly commonplace, and it comes at a terrible price.
Texting while driving is one of the most dangerous and common distractions on the road, because it can involve multiple distractions occurring at one time, taking a driver's hands, eyes, and mind off the road. Texting while driving solutions should be a focus area within a larger distracted ...
Texting While Driving Driving a Thin Line I’d be lying if I said I never text while driving. But I recognize the dangers‚ and try to do it as little as possible. However‚ there are still incidents that occur. One day‚ I was driving down Highway 6‚ passing Walmart‚ an...
Given that texting requires drivers to redirect their vision away from the road and towards the mobile phone screen or keypad and to remove their hands from the steering wheel to write or read a message (Hosking et al., 2006), texting while driving is especially dangerous. In their simulator...
one of the most dangerous for road users: a San Diego University study over a 10-day period last July calculated that 113,993 incidents involving drivers and/or pedestrians were caused by game-related distraction, including 14 car crashes and one pedestrian death uniquely attributable to the ...
The study found only 73 percent of drivers in Florida have insurance, which is the lowest rate in the nation. When it comes to DUIs (Driving under the influence) , there are around two DUI incidents per every 1,000 drivers in the state. Florida also has the 11th highest rate of Google...
The dramatic intervention comes just a couple of months after General Motors-owned Cruise was given permission to operate robotaxi services around the clock, but also follows a number of troubling incidents involving self-driving Cruise cars on the streets of San Francisco, where it’s been carryi...
Bruce Jenner has been caught driving while talking on a cell phone twice since the fatal car crash in Malibu, and RadarOnline.com has learned the incidents could have serious consequences, as cops continue to investigate the tragic accident.
Kyle Nagel
10.The method of claim 9, wherein the report is generated on a periodic basis, and wherein the report includes multiple texting-while-driving incidents. 11.A system, comprising:a network device, in a telematics service network, configured to:receive an indication of a text message being sent...