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Texting and driving may earn you a stiff fine, but driving while texting on one phone and talking on a second will earn you one year of riding your bike everywhere. Just ask David Secker of the UK. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5831568&view=rss&microfeed=true Sprint just announced they'll be adding anti-distracted driving software to every new Android phone they sell. It will do battle with the phone's pro-distracted driving software more commonly referred to as all the other software on the phone. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5784511&view=rss&microfeed=true New York's DMV will implement a two-point penalty on all drivers found guilty of distracted driving this week. And yes, "sexting while driving" counts. We're looking at you Mark Sanchez. [NY1] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5760114&view=rss&microfeed=true New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority tells bus drivers: One text and you're out of a job. [NY1] More »
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Who doesn't suffer from having their iPad and iPhone tumble around their BMW? How do you keep them properly held? To tout its own devices, BMW commissioned a few DIY projects that would give Ray LaHood a conniption. More »
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"They are trained to be careful," transportation secretary Ray LaHood told a caller on NPR when asked if it was OK for cops to use cell phones while driving. They're not, but what could cops be texting each other? More »
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's fatwa against distracted driving could grow to include a ban on all in-car cellphone use and new tech automakers have already rolled out. Distracted driving is dumb; so are over-reaching regulations buffaloed into existence. More »
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Comedian, actor, playwright, banjoist Steve Martin does in a few words what Ray LaHood can't accomplish with an entire coordinated media campaign. [@SteveMartinToGo] More »
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Hey, America! Get off the phone! Get off the phone! Get off the phone! Thank you. That is all. [Big Oak Studios via IGS] More »
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Wait — "may?" You mean... they can do this... now? More »
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This weekend's Saturday Night Live included a fairly spot-on comedic commentary on the hypocrisy of anti-texting parents. We mean, who hasn't spent time arguing with their GPS unit? More »
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood claims that 15% of all road deaths last year were due to driving while distracted. Texting while driving and other cell-phone-related driver behavior is the focus of a NHTSA summit that began today. Good. [Freep] More »
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30-year-old French F1 driver Sebastien Bourdais tells Autohebdo he was told his services were no longer required by Red Bull's Toro Rosso F1 team by way of text message. See CarandDriver, texting and then not driving's the real danger. [F1-Live] More »
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Texting-while-driving is unsafe and often illegal, and yet this tow truck driver confessed to texting with one phone and talking on another. The result? He plowed through one car and landed in someone's pool. [FoxNews] More »
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Driving requires constant attention — yet people are seemingly spending more time staring at iPhones to text friends. It's dangerous and that's why it's becoming illegal in more states. A guide to where and how the laws work below. More »
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One of us is a text-messager-aholic, constantly fighting the urge to text (or tweet) while driving. The boys from CarandDriver spent time determining just how bad it really is versus, say, drunk driving. Turns out drunk driving's safer. Here's why. More »
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Federal Way Police Chief Brian Wilson has apologized for hitting a parked car while checking his Blackberry. The irony here? Washington state was the first to enact anti-texting laws. More ironic? No charges are planned. More »
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A tragic story unfolds as a truck driver distracted by his laptop rear-ends a family carrier and crushes them between two massive semis. More »
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A recent study by Erie Insurance points out a lot of factors that anyone under the age of 60 probably already knows. The insurance company conducted a study surveying 2,127 licensed teenage drivers and came to the shocking conclusion that teens like to talk on the phone, text message and listen to loud music while driving. More »
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LOL UR CAR IZ GONE is what Cistrak will be saying when your car is stolen. Cistrak is a small, boxy device that allows for a car to easily be tracked by utilizing text-messaging technologies. Of course, it could also be used by overprotected parents fearful that their kids are hooning it up all over the state. Luckily for everyone involved, the device is fairly simple to use. More »
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OMG! Whatever you have to tell your BFF Payal better wait as the police in Washington State are now empowered to ticket your ass. A law designed to curb composing text messages went into effect on Tuesday. Penalties range from $124 for a driver texting or emailing to $175 if that texting leads to an accident. IMHO, it's not a bad law as you should probably be looking at the road and not your crackberry. More »
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