All it takes is a brief moment of distraction and your world can change radically for the worse. When driving a car, a split-second difference can determine whether you ram into that car ahead of you, ...
A just-released study looks at how new in-car technology is taking our eyes off the road. Consumer Reports focuses on vehicle "infotainment systems," including touch screens and controllers on the ...
We’ve all done it: You’re driving along, a text comes in, and even though you know you shouldn’t do it, you take a quick peek. Distracted driving is common and, according to a new report from Zendrive ...
SIX. APRIL IS NATIONAL DISTRACTED DRIVING AWARENESS MONTH. DRIVERS ACROSS FLORIDA DO STILL TEXT AND DRIVE, EVEN THOUGH IT IS ILLEGAL. IT’S NOT JUST TEXTING THAT IS DISTRACTING DRIVERS. AS PART OF OUR ...
ATLANTA - The Governor's Office of Highway Safety found that more than half of car crashes in Georgia in 2022 were caused by a distraction, according to a new report. Officials say a lot of the time ...
Humans who think they can multitask while sitting at the wheel of a moving car continue to be a problem—one that claimed more than 3,300 lives in 2022, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
News of Covid-19 is sweeping the nation, but other serious threats to safety remain. Distracted driving, for example, claimed the lives of 2,841 people in the United States in 2018. Among those killed ...
Everyone knows that distracted driving is a problem, but it tends to fall in the “other people/not me” category of personal risk assessment among drivers. But when you consider that a staggering 80 ...
The number of pedestrians injured while on their phones has doubled since 2005. A young man is shown texting and walking in this undated stock photo. Getty Images — -- We’ve all been warned about ...