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The Feds’ ‘Ultimate Solution’ to Curb Distracted Driving
Wired looks at the solution to reduce distracted driving. Distracted driving kills more than 3,000 people each year in the United States, a figure that represents about 10 percent of all traffic...
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The future of driving is now
BBC shares some of the present technology used in cars today. Car seat lane departure warnings Cadillac’s lane departure warning alerts a driver who is drifting out of a lane by vibrating the right or...
View ArticleFrom One Second To The Next: The dangers of texting while driving
Kotte shares “From One Second To The Nex”t a 35-minute documentary film by Herzog on the dangers of texting while driving.
View ArticleHonda Thinks Smartphones Can Save Pedestrians From Bad Drivers
Smartphones are too often a colossal distraction to motorists, but Honda sees a way of using them to protect pedestrians from inattentive drivers. Wired reports this story. The automaker hopes to tap...
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Children Distract Drivers Far More Than Phones Do
Big Think shares this study on the cause of distracted driving. Monash University researchers put a discreet video recording system inside the cars of families with children between the ages of one...
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A Text Message Designed To Stop Texting And Driving
A new PSA by textswrekcs aims to stop testing and driving with a text – full of tiny cartoon cars, puppies, fire and ghosts. Fast Company shares this story. Texting and driving is a modern plague that...
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Should Distracted Cycling Be Banned?
Laws against distracted cycling have failed to break through at the state level. A few individual cities have established rules against riding a bike and using a cell phone (without a hands-free...
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These SF Billboards Are Now Plastered With Photos of Distracted Drivers
Blown away by how many people use their cell phones on the freeway, San Francisco graphic designer Brian Singer came up with a new way to raise awareness of the risky behavior. Atlantic Cities tells...
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Apple Patents Driver Distraction Lockdown Mode For iPhones
Apple has been granted a new patent by the USPTO (via AppleInsider), and it’s one that could potentially prevent a lot of careless driving. The tech described in the patent would use a phone’s...
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Want Your Job to Scare You? Try Studying Distracted Driving
Peter Tuckel, a sociology professor at Hunter College at the City University of New York, studies the habits of motorists. It is not a reassuring pastime. The Atlantic shares this story. Tuckel hasn’t...
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