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Stop the Car! More Adult Drivers Texting Than Teens
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(June 24) -- Maybe it's the grown-ups who need to be grounded. A recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study shows that 47 percent of adults who use their cell phone to text had done it while driving, making them more likely offenders than teens. Only about a third of 16- and 17-year-old teens who text had done so behind the wheel, according to an earlier Pew survey. "Adults ... clearly should know better," Justin McNaull, director of state relations for AAA, told AOL News. "It's not youthful indiscretion." While 28 states have outlawed texting for all drivers, others have focused ...
Who Can Drive Safely While on Phone? 'Supertaskers'
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(April 3) -- It's become a common refrain in our modern, rampantly multitasking era: Driving while using a cell phone is a big no-no, a practice so dangerous it deserves to be outlawed, according to the increasingly urgent calls of legislators and ordinary citizens. Yet for a small minority of people, simultaneously burning rubber and minutes appears not only to be safe, but second nature. Call them the "supertaskers" -- the name given to a small group of extraordinarily high-performing subjects in a recent University of Utah psychology experiment that involved controlling a driving ...
Administration Considers Federal Ban on Texting While Driving
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTransportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would support legislation to withhold federal funds from states that permit cellphone texting while driving. LaHood said he would like to see laws that punish states that allow the practice and also reward those that ban it, The Wall Street Journal reported. Congress is considering bills that would do both. Providing both penalties and incentives has been effective in getting states to put in place drunken-driving laws, LaHood told the paper. LaHood has said he favors a national ban on texting while driving but said he needed to study how to ...
The Coming Ban on 'Texting While Driving'?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIt seems fairly intuitive: Sending text messages while driving a car is extremely dangerous, and is a practice that should be outlawed. Several states have already limited the use of cellphones for those behind the wheel, requiring hands-free devices and issuing fines to those who do not comply. As yet, however, there is no way to text without looking down at your phone's keypad or screen, which makes that practice much more dangerous than simply having a verbal conversation. Well, this logic has not been lost on Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who is convening a "distracted-driving ...
Texting While Driving Ban Proposed in Senate
By Emily Miller - Politics DailySenate Democrats introduced a bill on Wednesday that would ban texting on a cell phone or other personal electronic device while driving. If passed, the bill would force states to enact laws against texting while driving, or risk losing federal highway funds. "iPhones, Sidekicks and Blackberries are ingenious, indispensable devices," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a statement. "But while they make our lives so much easier, they make driving that much harder." ...
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