Texting, Calling Resulted in 3,092 Fatalities in 2010
10 Dec 2011, 13:25 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Distracted driving might seem like something the government calls upon because it wants you to be bored at the wheel, but the latest results from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (...
Driver Busted for Speeding While Using Two Phones
30 May 2011, 05:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Talk about multi-tasking... A British driver took the entire use of cell phone while behind the wheel debate to a whole new level last week, after he got caught speeding at 110 km/h (68 mph) while u...
Subaru Motivating Drivers to NOT Text while Behind the Wheel
25 Feb 2011, 16:48 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Subaru’s US arm is promoting safe driving in the Denver area, with the company announcing that it will provide two complimentary Colorado Avalanche hockey tickets to any Colorado driver who pl...
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...
InTEXTicated Campaign Launched
29 Nov 2010, 23:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With all the fuss made this year surrounding the use of cell phones while driving, it would have been a bit unnatural to let December pass without taking advantage of the people's predispositio...
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...
Vlingo In-Car App to Combat Texting while Driving
12 Oct 2010, 12:18 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Intelligent voice app provider Vlingo announced today the release of Vlingo InCar, a new beta feature for Android users that allows consumers to receive and send text messages without taking their h...
Texting Bans Increase Crash Rates
28 Sep 2010, 06:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A very interesting study was made public today by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) regarding one of the most debated dangerous activities behind the wheel. According to the organiza...
Ford's Do Not Disturb Feature Kills Texting
8 Jul 2010, 13:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With more and more states in the US putting an end to all that texting orgies behind the wheel, manufacturers of both phones and vehicles are trying to find a way around the prohibitive measures. In...
Three U.S. States Strengthen Seat Belt and Distracted Driving Laws
6 Jun 2010, 15:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Georgia, Kansas and Vermont states have recently introduced new legislation that is aimed at improving highway safety. Kansas and Georgia have strengthened their seat belt and distracted driving...
Sex, Text, Play. What to Do While Driving?
26 May 2010, 10:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / How many of you drivers out there haven't, at least once, taken your eyes off the road to have a quick looksee in the eyes of the one sitting next to you? How many of you text while driving? Or...
No More Texting in Wisconsin
6 May 2010, 13:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's no escape for "texters", apparently, as yet another state joined the pack which banned texting while driving. Wisconsin became the 25th state to outlaw such practices, after G...
Michigan Bans Texting While Driving, Live on Oprah
30 Apr 2010, 13:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As Oprah's No Phone Zone Day rally is getting ready to kick off in Washington DC, Detroit, Los Angeles, Boston, and Atlanta, the state of Michigan is gearing up to ban texting while driving. ...
Today is No Phone Zone Day
30 Apr 2010, 13:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The fight for phone-free driving habits will be on prime time today in Washington DC, as Oprah Winfrey's No Phone Zone Day rally is scheduled in the capital. Similar events are to take place at...
Thumbs Wars: Teens vs. Texting & Driving
21 Apr 2010, 10:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new anti-texting campaign has been kicked off in the US this week by DoSomething.org and Sprint. The two organizations teamed to create a campaign though which teens are encouraged to fioght again...
Banned Texting? That's OK, We Have Auto TextBak
7 Apr 2010, 07:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It must be very difficult for some American drivers, used for many years now to text while driving, to see how the states they live in adopt, one by one, laws which ban such a practice. While in mos...
Texting Banned for Truckers and Bus Drivers
26 Jan 2010, 15:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The fun, write-while-at-the-wheel times are over for truckers and bus drivers, as the second nationwide piece of legislation has been adopted in the US, prohibiting drivers of large commercial truck...
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 ...
Chrysler Sets Corporate Policy on Texting While Driving
15 Dec 2009, 16:06 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / American carmaker Chrysler Group announced today that it now prohibits texting while driving in order to promote safer driving behaviors, therefore becoming the first automaker to establish a corpor...
It's Confirmed: Texting While Driving Can Be Lethal
6 May 2009, 09:50 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / A new study presented to the Pediatric Academic Societies on Saturday, May 2, confirms what most people already know: sending text messages and driving are a potentially lethal combination. The s...