texting while driving

Are Head-up Displays And Voice Command Technologies As Dangerous As Manual Texting While Driving

By Todd Halterman
Are Head-up Displays And Voice Command Technologies As Dangerous As Manual Texting While Driving

From drinking coffee to eating a donut to putting on makeup or touching up a morning shave, as drivers we’re often guilty of performing “secondary tasks” in our cars. As a result, there’s been an uptick in injuries – and even fatalities – directly tied to distracted driving. And now “wearable technologies” are coming under scrutiny as well. While it may seem at first glance that devices such as Google Glass, which include features such…

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Surfing the internet makes distracted driving worse

By Consumer Insurance Guide Staff
Surfing the internet makes distracted driving worse

As if driving while texting or yapping on the phone weren’t bad enough, the advent of smartphones has added a new problem to distracted driving from those surfing the internet while behind the wheel. According to State Farm, people are webbing while driving with increasing frequency. Along with texting, such behavior may pose equal or greater concerns in the effort to reduce distracted driving. Four years of data show a significant increase in the use of…

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