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
Drinking and driving is well known as a dangerous offense in the eyes of the law. In 2014, 9,967 lives were claimed by drivers with a BAC of .08 and over, or 31 percent of all traffic related fatalities that year. However distracted driving can prove deadly as well. Also in 2014, an estimated 3,179 […]
Kiernan Hopkins
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
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, car accidents have claimed the lives of 234 people so far this year. In comparison to this same time last year, that’s an 11 percent increase in fatalities. The rise in traffic deaths is largely due to human error, such as distracted driving and excessive speed, which goes well […]
Brian Debelle
Major concerns arise around distracted driving in Arizona since it is one of two states that hasn’t restricted texting and driving in any form. Senator Steve Farley has been fighting for change since 2007 but his push to mandate a state-wide law has proven to be unsuccessful. He has even been ridiculed for his efforts […]
Brian Debelle
As a part of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, West Virginia truck drivers are calling for motorists to exercise more caution on roads. In cooperation with the American Trucking Association and its Share the Road highway safety program, the West Virginia Trucking Association is working to warn society of the inherent dangers associated [...]
Brian Debelle
Even though laws against distracted driving in most states across the U.S. still need to make a significant amount of improvement, they are light years ahead of laws against distracted walking, which until recently were essentially non existent. Both distracted driving and distracted walking accidents cause serious injuries and death. [...]
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
The National Safety Council has conducted a study that concludes that more then a quarter of all automobile collisions in the United States are the result of inattentive driving while using a cell phone. This National Safety Council study also estimates that 21 percent of all auto collisions in 2013 (1.2 million out of 5.7 million) were [...]
Kiernan Hopkins