Ever heard of a DT? Hint: it’s similar to a DD. It’s a designator texter. Mad responsibility. They co-pilot your phone while you handle the road. Swipe, type, tweet, text, post, down and upload. That’s from Honda’s latest driver safety awareness campaign featuring an entertaining rap music video about the true responsibilities of shotgun [...]
Brian Debelle
You should be in a car accident at least three or four times in your lifetime, statistically speaking that is. And that’s given you’re an “average” driver, which self-admitted or not, most people are. But do your odds of being in a car accident change if you live in an urban versus rural environment? Or […]
Brian Debelle
Warmer nights are almost here, which means the school year is coming to an end, families are headed on vacation, and more people are staying out into the night hours – putting more drivers and passengers at risk of nighttime related vehicle collisions. Although longer daylight hours are approaching, people are still susceptible to the [...]
Brian Debelle
Texting and driving has become an ever-increasing problem on the roads today; in fact, there are 327.5 million active cell phone subscriptions in the U.S., which is more than one for every person in the country. This constant access to our phones has some drivers looking down when their eyes should be up on the […]
Kiernan Hopkins
By 2016, the dangers of distracted driving have been well quantified. Texting while driving takes your eyes off the road for an average of five seconds while also increasing your risk of crash by 23 times. Especially for younger generations of drivers, this can have disastrous results, with drivers in their 20s accounting for 38% [...]
Brian Debelle
Breaking Bar is a wireless, self-calibrating, brake light that easily attaches to the back window of the car. The technology used to create the Braking Bar is also used by luxury car manufactures like Mercedes, Cadillac, Volvo, and BMW use in their new automobiles to help keep their automobile occupants safe. The Braking Bar creators [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
Safety is and always has been one of the top concerns for automobile owners. With the immense increase in distracted driving related auto collisions over the past decade, it’s a good thing that today’s new automobiles offer more protection and accident avoidance technologies and products then ever before. For older automobiles that did [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has conducted a naturalistic driving study in which researches track the real-time actions of drivers by equipping vehicles with sensors, radars, and cameras with the goal of learning what specific distracted driving behaviors and actions are the most dangerous and result in the most number of [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
According to AAA Nebraska, fatal crashes are on pace to reach their highest levels in the state since 2007. Through December 14th of this year, 228 people have already died in crashes, an increase of 14 percent over the past four year average. Tragically, this increase has come mainly at the expense of pedestrians and […]
Brian Debelle
Having the option to get behind the wheel of a car is a fantastic benefit that not everyone has. Driving isn’t just about getting from A to B, it gives a great freedom for adventure and to see new places that might otherwise be difficult or cumbersome to get to. Countries have varying laws in relation to driving […]
Kiernan Hopkins