Tag: TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

Last night, Snooki and her impending cirrhosis were driving near Newark, New Jersey, when they suddenly hit heavy traffic. "Ugh stuck in newark traffic is no fun," the diminutive Guidette tweeted. A few minutes later, she bemoaned her choice of ride, tweeting, " Omg why I got a stick shift I will never know. Stop and go traffic I'm killen myself here :(" Normally, these kinds of quotidian tweets ...

Texting while driving is one of the undeniable scourges of the road, and some studies have even suggested it's more dangerous than driving while intoxicated. We've seen various attempts to thwart or discourage drivers from firing off SMS missives or placing calls -- ranging from high-tech, GPS-equipped systems that intercept calls based on your movement, to silly thumb socks that make typing on a ...

Adults frequently employ heavy-handed tactics to combat teen texting and driving, but impudent kids remain unfazed by gory films and harsh laws that specifically apply to minors. According to media portrayals, teens seem determined to endanger everyone on the road. But, before adults implement more restrictions or disseminate further propaganda, society's elders may need to cast a long, hard ...

It might sound counter-intuitive, but the answer to battling distracted driving could be smartphone apps. Earlier this week, David Pogue wrote about some of the different applications that lock your cell phone while you're driving. The apps he reviewed -- iZup, tXtBlocker, CellSafety and ZoomSafer -- range in price from $0 to $25, and they all require a monthly subscription fee. To determine when ...

With advertisers constantly competing against each other with catchier jingles, bigger celebrity endorsers and better effects, a tactic that has grown in recent years is to simply make a product known by being as weird as possible. Case in point: that horrifying, masked Burger King 'King,' who effectively has emblazoned everyone's brain with the terrible image of his deadened-but-all-knowing ...

While texting and driving is illegal, texting while pushing a stroller surprisingly isn't. Which is the only reason we can see something as frivolous -- and potentially dangerous -- as the Texthook getting approved. Billed as the "dashboard for your mobile life," the Texthook, which straps onto the handlebar of a stroller and holds most smart phones, seems just about as practical as these ...

By now, you'd have to live under a rock to be unaware of the dangers of texting while driving. There have been more studies on the subject than we can count. Despite raising awareness, all this information isn't doing much to change drivers' behavior. According to MSNBC, the Pew Internet & American Life Project recently released a study finding that over a third of 16- and 17-year-old texters ...

The debate about driving while texting (DWT) is about to hit a fever pitch. If you think people were up in arms about this dangerous habit before, just wait till you hear the latest alarming story. According to the New York Post, a New York City bus driver is being investigated after a passenger snapped a picture of him texting while steering the bus through thick traffic Thursday. Allegedly, the ...

By now, we're all aware of how dangerous it is to text while driving. But, like children who just can't resist touching a hot stove, people continue to do it. While a car accident is never good, some are worse than others. For example, crashing into a parked cop car because you were texting is about as bad as it gets. That's just what happened late Wednesday night to one unfortunate, or just ...

Apparently all those studies and advertisements about the dangers of texting while driving are getting through to the American people. According to Motor Trend, Ford recently commissioned a survey that found 93-percent of the participants support a nationwide ban on texting while driving. It looks like the automotive giant surveyed a bunch of cynics though -- because only 42-percent said they ...

New Jersey drivers, already banned from using cell phones while driving, may also be banned from programming their GPS units. Just fifteen months after a state-wide ban on behind-the-wheel talking and texting took effect in March of 2008, one New Jersey legislator wants to up the ante, according to the DailyRecord. On June 8th, Harvey Smith, a Democratic Assemblyman from Jersey City, introduced a ...

Rude cell phone behavior is a familiar nuisance to everyone. We've all been annoyed at some point by a person talking loudly in public, or swerving across the highway as they hammer out a text message. Polling firm Harris Interactive recently conducted an Intel-commissioned tech-etiquette survey of 2,160 U.S. adults. The resulting statistics are interesting, predictable, and frustrating. As ...

In a scene we're 95-percent sure was ripped out of a movie made in the 1980s starring some combination of Matthew Broderick, Emilio Estevez, and Christina Applegate, a Tampa high school senior went for quite a ride last week. ABC Action News reports that the girl, Katelyn Blaylock, never showed up at school last Wednesday morning. Instead, she was cruising around Tampa in her car and doing a ...

Another day, another study -- it seems like every time we turn around, there's another body of research revealing that, even though they know it's dangerous, stupid, and should be illegal, teens still text-message while driving. The latest study paints a slightly rosier picture than the last one we saw (which said that 85-percent of teenage girls and almost 60 percent of boys were guilty of ...

According to a study released by The Allstate Foundation and National Organizations for Youth Safety, teenage girls are much more likely to engage in texting and driving than their male counterparts. The organizations surveyed 605 drivers between the ages of 16 and 20. Here's a quick bullet list of some of the study's more interesting findings: 87-percent of teens think that driving and ...