19 Percent of Drivers Admit to Using Internet While Driving
3 Mar 2011, 11:32 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Results published yesterday by State Farm, which are based on an online survey, show an alarming number of drivers are guilty of a very special kind of distracted driving. We are talking about using...
Nearly One Third of US Drivers Get Amorous while Behind the Wheel
11 Feb 2011, 09:10 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Valentine’s Day is getting closer as we speak, and though some may see it just like a wicked marketing scheme that helps boost sales of related merchandise, the truth is that many get carried ...
New Anti Texting Campaign Launched
28 Dec 2010, 07:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 2010 has been, for most of the regulators in the US, the year when the battle against distracted driving in general and texting in particular intensified. Regardless of the efforts made so far, howe...
BMW Rallies with DoT on Distracted Driving
10 Dec 2010, 14:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Perhaps the most debated issue in the automotive world this year, distracted driving and its effects on the drivers have slowly gained the attention of the car makers selling their products in the U...
US Government Wants Cell Phone Blocking Tech in Cars
8 Dec 2010, 12:47 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The U.S. Department of Transportation has started investigating technology that would effectively disable the drivers' cell phones in their cars. This comes as a result of the ever increasing ...
Mass Adoption of In-Car Bluetooth by 2016
19 Nov 2010, 12:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are two elements conspiring to get the Bluetooth technology in about percent of all the vehicles in the US by 2016. Firstly, there's the increasing demand for the technology as it is need...
LaHood Slams IIHS Distracted Driving Report
29 Sep 2010, 06:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Wednesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) published a study about the laws against texting while driving and the effects, or at least the lack of, these laws have had since the...
SAFECELLapp iPhone App to Combat Distracted Driving
28 Sep 2010, 10:20 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / A new iPhone application hit the market today addressing the problem of distracted driving. Dubbed SAFECELLapp, the mobile application warns users of local no-text and no-cell rules, alerts them whe...
Carmakers Under Scrutiny for New Communication Technologies
24 Sep 2010, 06:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Amidst a nationwide effort aimed at reducing the number of accidents caused by distracted driving, the carmakers themselves will now feel some type of pressure coming from the US authorities. For ye...
Employers Asked to Ban Texting while Driving
22 Sep 2010, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Following the release earlier this week of the 2009 Distracted Driving Report, US authorities are stepping up the efforts to put an end to an increasing number of people who are killed or injured as...
NHTSA 2009 Distracted Driving Report Released
21 Sep 2010, 09:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After last week the US Department of Transportation (DoT), together with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released the 2009 Motor Vehicles Crashes report, a new, yet simila...
Motorists Afraid of Texting But Admit Doing It
20 Sep 2010, 10:20 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Thank you for stating the obvious! 88 percent of motorists included in the 2010 Traffic Safety Culture Index study released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety think that texting and emai...
Survey Shows Distracted Drivers Unaffected by Law Against Texting
5 Jan 2010, 11:44 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / A study conducted by odbEdge, the creator of Cellcontrol, revealed some worrying conclusions: 72 percent of the people who took part in the survey said that they will keep using their mobile phones ...
Distracted Driving Website Launched by NHTSA
1 Jan 2010, 11:33 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The present digital age, when less time and more gadgets are available, has the perfect conditions to favor distracted driving, a problem which has unfortunately become a part of our daily motoring ...
Ford's Distraction Lab Plays with Goggles
20 Oct 2009, 09:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Believe it or not, making a driver keep his/her eyes on the road has developed into a science of its own, with all the required laboratories and scientists. With so many distractions in today's...
What NOT to Eat While Driving
17 Jul 2009, 07:25 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Since the National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA) considers eating while driving is among the most dangerous things a motorist can do while behind the wheel, an insurance company has recentl...
New 'Death by Cell Phone' Florida Billboard Campaign
13 Jul 2009, 09:02 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / It was about time for billboards to be used not to advertise cell phones, but to warn drivers about how harmful they are if used while behind the wheel. However, the new billboard installed in Fort ...
Operating the GPS while Driving Could Be Prohibited
22 Jun 2009, 12:31 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Texting or talking on the phone while driving have already been prohibited since March 2008, as they were declared dangerous activities, having the potential to distract the driver. Moreover, a r...