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I couldn’t attend the Distracted Driving Summit but watched some of the webcast today. Tons of useful statistics and opinions from researchers and industry experts. Jim Lehrer at PBS covered the story and reported that distracted driving is “at epidemic proportions” in America in an interview with Ray LaHood, U.S. Transportation Secretary.
Changing personal behavior [...]
First of all, I’ll state that I am not a lawyer and do not consider anything in this blog to be considered legal advice. However, if you are familiar at all with the legal system in the US, it seems that there are legal risks for businesses and parents when an employee or teen driver [...]
Recently Ford announced their support for laws against Driving While Texting (DWT). This could help drive customers to their Sync solution with voice command capabilities. I would hope that a ban against DWT would help, but, according to some studies, the risk of an accident is still significant even with hands-free devices. The National Highway [...]
Take an hour-long road trip and I’m willing to bet that when you get around to passing the guy who was lane drifting in front of you or the lady who nearly side swiped you a bit earlier, they’d each have one thing in common. They were on their phones. You run a search today [...]
