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In its continuing battle against distracted driving, the US-based National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued voluntary guidelines covering the use of in-car infotainment and communication devices in the United States. It is NHTSA's intention that the proposals, which have been in ...

So much for all those systems that allow you to convert your voice to text messages. Reuters reports that a new study has found the technology to be no safer to use while driving than employing a traditional handheld device. The study found that drivers took around twice as long to react to ...

On April 3, University of Northern Colorado student Alexander Heit lost control of his car while sending a text on his iPhone. The loss of control caused the car to roll over, and the 22-year-old died a short time after being transported by ambulance to a local hospital. Greeley, CO Police ...

If you think texting while driving is dangerous, then you may be shocked to learn that many people do more than just text while driving, they actually browse the web while behind the wheel, and the number of people who do it is on the rise. A USA Today report cites a study that recently polled ...

We're all familiar with the designated driver concept. Most everyone with a drivers licence has either been one or needed one. But now, designated texter is a new idea being promoted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration targets texting drivers. A recent study by State Farm ...

We are all smart enough to know that texting while driving is a horrible, horrible idea. This is not news. And as unfortunate as this story may be, we have to admit, it's a very ironic one. Chance Bothe had to find this out by paying the ultimate price, as the 21-year-old college student from ...

We've all been warned of the death, danger and expensive fines associated with texting while driving, but tweeting while riding? It seems some people never learn, as this insane motorcyclist decides to show off his social media skills to his stunt crew by texting and tweeting while standing ...

If for some reason you still don't think that texting while driving is a bad idea, here's a story for you. Aaron Deveau, age 17, was allegedly composing a text message when his car crossed the center line of a Massachusetts street, hitting a car head-on. In that car was Daniel Bowley, Jr. and his ...

No one would deny that distracted driving is a real problem. Everyone is familiar with it - it's that thing that happens when other people try to text, drink coffee, shave, apply mascara, and discipline their children all at the same time. Oh, and drive. Not you, though. You're an assiduous ...

Distracted driving has joined smoking, drinking, drug use, and unprotected sex on the list of behaviors that teens know are risky but engage in nonetheless. According to a recent survey by Consumer Reports, half of all U.S. teens surveyed had used a handheld phone while driving in the past 30 ...