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Original Technorati articles tagged “texting while driving”

• in Technology
  Texting While Driving Needs Market-Driven Solution
  Texting while driving, perhaps ATT is right, market-driven solutions are needed to stop the madness.
  by coachlorraine / on Sep 20, 2012
• in Technology
  Ford Vehicles Will Read Your Text Messages While You Drive
  Ford has introduced their voice-activated technology, Sync. Sync is intended to reduce texting while driving.
  by dearinternet / on Oct 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “texting while driving”

 

• Teenager Dies During Her First Solo Drive While Texting

  
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  Savannah Nash of Harrisonville, Missouri turned 16 last week and just got her driver’s license. In her first solo drive Savannah was T-boned by a semi tractor trailer 50-yards from her home. Savannah died at the scene and investigators found an unsent text message on her cell phone which they believe was a factor in ...
  5 days ago

• Tennessee Department of Health encourages Women to make their own Health a Priority

  
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  National Women’s Health Week is May 12th-18th, 2013 Nashville, TN – It’s your time, ladies! The Tennessee Department of Health joins celebrations of National Women’s Health Week, which kicks off on Mother’s Day, May 12th. This nationwide initiative calls attention to the importance of women’s health ...
  1 week ago

• Floridas New "NoTexting while driving law" now in effect

  
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    Studies have shown that texting and driving can be as dangerous as drunk driving. The Florida legislature just passed a ban on driving and texting. In doing so, our state has joined 40 others that have bans on texting while driving. BUT, the bill did not go through in its original form and was somewhat diluted ...
  2 weeks ago

• A La Carte (5/10)

  
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  What Separates Us From the Bible? - Tony Payne follows up a previous article: “I was suggesting last week that the Bible is not written from an alien, different world, but addresses the world we live in. But there is something that stands as a divide between us and the Bible; something that prevents us from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study: Distracted Driving Deaths Underreported

  
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  WASHINGTON — Seventeen-year-old Kelsey Raffaele’s last words were over a cellphone to a friend: “I’m going to crash!” The car she was driving had clipped a snow bank and spun into oncoming traffic, where it was T-boned by an SUV. She died at a hospital without regaining consciousness. Police chalked the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taboo: Texting While Driving, Do You Do It?

  
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  Send to Kindle It is very important to refrain from texting while driving , but many still do. Are you guilty? Texting while driving can be very dangerous. We all know that it is not a good idea to be distracted while driving and texting is a definite distraction. Before you choose to text while driving there ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Study: Telling Teens Not To Text While Driving Doesn’t Really Help

  
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  I will preface this post about the widespread problem of teens texting while driving by saying that I’m of the current Get Off My Lawn generation. Back in my day, we didn’t have “cell phones” and we couldn’t send “text messages” while driving to our “friends”. Of course, I went to high school in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study Finds More High School Teens Text and Drive

  
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  Are U.S. teens getting more reckless on the road? A new study presented May 4 at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC., showed nearly 43 percent of American high school students were ignoring the dangers associated with texting while driving. Of the 7,833 students who participated in ...
  2 weeks ago

• What To Say To Your Kid Before He Gets His Cell Phone…

  
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    We’ve all seen them, the little eight year old girls with their candy pink phones, the boys with their sagging jeans and iPhones in the pockets. Kids nowadays have phones. It’s as simple as that. Some three quarters of British ten year old own a mobile at this point. So it’s no surprise that your kid wants ...
  3 weeks ago

• Viewpoint: Want Safer Drivers? Embrace, Don’t Ban, Technology

  
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  The federal government’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced guidelines calling for automakers to put limits on the installation of electronic devices in new cars, including a provision that most Internet-linked applications must be disabled while the car is in motion. But if the goal ...
  3 weeks ago

• 6 Reasons Why Cops Pull You Over

  
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  Now that the winter weather has (hopefully) subsided for the year in Minnesota, many motorists are getting their motorcycles and convertibles out of storage and onto the highway.  Although better road conditions make it easier for a person to handle a vehicle at high speeds, it means more police officers will be out ...
  3 weeks ago

• Official: NHTSA releases voluntary guidelines to combat distracted driving

  
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  Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Infotainment In its continuing battle against distracted driving, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued voluntary guidelines covering the use of in-car infotainment and communication devices. It is NHTSAs intention that the proposals, which ...
  4 weeks ago

• U.S. Transportation Secretary released voluntary guidelines reduce visual-manual distraction

  
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  U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released distraction guidelines that encourage automobile manufacturers to limit the distraction risk connected to electronic devices built into their vehicles, such as communications, entertainment and navigation devices. “Distracted driving is a deadly epidemic that has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hands Free Devices Still Dangerous for Texting

  
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  Even switching to hands free devices for texting may not reduce the risk of distracted driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration .Dealers should be aware and play a role in cutting the risk. [ More] The Article Hands Free Devices Still Dangerous for Texting appeared first on ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hands-free texting is NO safer than texting?

  
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  Almost everyone has a mobile phone. And since communication has become second nature to humans in the modern age, it is common to find people driving whilst on their mobile phone. Simply drive around for 5 minutes and look around. The possibility of you getting ran over by someone texting while driving, is higher than ...
  4 weeks ago

• Future Cars Might Stop You From Texting While Driving

  
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  The human brain is an amazing organ, but it certainly has limitations when it comes to multitasking. That’s why it’s very dangerous to call or text while driving your car. Yet people do that, but in the future your vehicle might make sure that you do not. In the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...
  4 weeks ago

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