Nearly every traffic accident caused by driver error – up to 90 percent of all crashes – could be eliminated if existing intelligent transportation technologies were implemented in our vehicles and roads, say experts at IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association. These include electronics and computing technologies such as in-vehicle machine vision and sensors to [...]
Oct 17 2011 | Posted in
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Teens will be in the drivers seat during a new safe driving initiative. More than 300 high schools in 11 pilot counties are being invited to take part in a potentially life-saving project aimed at making students better and safer drivers. Strive For A Safer Drive S4SD provides funding and resources to help teens talk [...]
Oct 13 2011 | Posted in
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Adults drank too much and got behind the wheel about 112 million times in 2010—that is almost 300,000 incidents of drinking and driving each day—according to a CDC Vital Signs study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The four million adults who drink and drive each year put everyone on the road [...]
Oct 11 2011 | Posted in
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State Farm is unveiling a new commercial this week designed to put a powerful spotlight on teen drivers and their parents. The commercial spans the life of a young girl from toddler to teen driver. Country western recording artist Kenny Chesneys hit “There Goes My Life” serves as the backdrop for the piece.State Farm is [...]
Oct 10 2011 | Posted in
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For the fourth consecutive year, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safetys annual Traffic Safety Culture Index shows drivers know that cell phone use and texting while driving are dangerous, yet they continue to do it anyway. Specifically, data from the 2011 survey found that 95 percent of drivers view texting or emailing by other [...]
As kids return to classrooms and after-school carpools resume, Northwest insurer PEMCO has released poll results that show a vast majority of Washington drivers know the safest spot to place child passengers is the back seat, but less than half think their fellow drivers do that when driving with children under age 13. While 80 [...]
Mike Phelps, a Bloomington, Ind., based attorney with Ken Nunn Law Office, has won a lawsuit verdict in the death of Charles “C.J.” McAlhaney, a 23-year-old man who was killed in a drunk driving car accident in New Castle in 2006. DUI Lawyer Loudoun . Contact an Attorney who specializes in DWI and DUI legal [...]
Aug 30 2011 | Posted in
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What’s the difference between a bad driving record and a good one? As much as $3,000 a year or more according to a new analysis comparing online auto insurance quotes. The research was conducted for Chicago-based online insurance resource E-Insure Services, Inc. Profiles were created for three fictitious drivers, all age 21 with 2009 Mustangs, [...]
Jan 23 2011 | Posted in
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At an event marking the one-year anniversary of FocusDriven, the first national nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for victims of distracted driving, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today reaffirmed his commitment to putting an end to the deadly epidemic of distracted driving. Joined by family members of distracted driving victims, including FocusDriven President Jennifer Smith, [...]
The number of fatal crashes involving 16- and 17-year old drivers dropped by more than a third between 2004 and 2008, but this doesn’t mean that parents and teens should be satisfied with the progress, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Crashes still remain the leading cause of death [...]
Oct 21 2010 | Posted in
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