Yesterday morning found various California police and safety officials holding a press conference designed to bring attention to two separate distracted driving events which aim to cut down on the dangers faced on the roads by teens and other motorists. The first event the press conference was designed to draw focus toward is California Teen… read more

The city of Mitchell, South Dakota has been pursuing the passage of a texting while driving ban for quite awhile now, but their efforts were put on hold as they awaited a decision at the state level on such a measure.  But now that a statewide ban has failed, the City Council is looking into… read more

A bill that sought to both outlaw marketing-based text messages and ban texting of all sorts behind the wheel has been passed in Arizona, but not before the latter portion of the bill was excised.  The State Senate debated the bill after it had passed through the House, with one proponent of the texting and… read more

This coming Sunday will see millions of people across the country tuning in to the season finale of a certain popular show about zombies.  So it makes a sort of sense that safety agencies would attempt to take advantage of the trending topic to raise awareness about important subjects. That could by why the California… read more

The Gilroy Police Department is one of the many California agencies taking part in a cellphone driving crackdown throughout the month of April.  This is being conducted as part of Distracted Driving Awareness Month.  If a person in the city of Gilroy, or the rest of the state for that matter, is caught texting or… read more

Despite the widespread belief that texting and driving can be detrimental to one’s ability to safely navigate the roads, the phenomenon is still new enough that the effect texting bans actually have on traffic safety has not been fully studied.  It could take years to fully determine how beneficial texting bans can be, but one… read more

Google Glass has the potential to completely alter the way we interact with our surrounding environment.  Basically a pair of glasses that offers up a host of information to the person wearing the device, the technology aims to provide the sort of Heads-Up Display that was heretofore the purview of videogames. But some worry what… read more

In New Jersey, talking on one’s cellphone or texting while driving are already illegal offenses.  But lawmakers are currently considering whether or not the current penalties go far enough, and an initial vote shows that fines may soon get quite a bit higher for those who insist on breaking the law multiple times.  The State… read more

In South Dakota, a ban on texting while driving failed to garner the votes necessary to receive passage and become the law of the land.  Although the measure received the go-ahead from the state’s Senate, passage in the House was another matter.  In fact, the bill never even made it out of the House Judiciary… read more

Yesterday, we spoke briefly about a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study posted in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that showed Americans texted and used their cellphones behind the wheel at greater rates than citizens in much of Europe.  When it came to talking on the phone in the past 30 days, a… read more

Yesterday, we brought you word of a distracted driving crackdown taking place all across California during the month of April.  Now, we’re getting some clue as to how local police plan to approach the endeavor.  The California Highway Patrol is one of the many entities taking part in the operation, and the Redwood City branch… read more

Many states have confronted a dilemma after they’ve passed texting and driving bans:  how can you actually tell that a person is texting and not just dialing a phone number or looking down at their laps for some other reason?  In California, we have no such problem, as both texting and talking on a cellphone… read more