News tagged with traffic safety laws

The blackbox in your car

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is expected that within the next month officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will declare that all cars must have an event data recorder inside the vehicle.

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created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 124 | with audio podcast weblog

Underage drinking laws reduce fatal accidents, saving 732 lives per year

State laws that prohibit people under the age of 21 from purchasing or possessing alcohol, and from driving with any alcohol in their system save 732 lives a year in the United States, according to a study released today ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Futuristic cars are coming faster than you think

Cars that drive themselves are not just the stuff of sci-fi movies. The technology is real, the cars can now drive legally and the debate is starting on whether society is better off when software is behind the wheel.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 26

New U of M video game teaches consequences of distracted driving

Being in a life-threatening vehicle crash due to distracted driving teaches a painful lesson, but makers of the new video game Distraction Dodger hope there is a much safer way to teach the same lesson.

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research shows hands-free phones just as risky

(AP) -- Like it or not, when someone is talking to you, your brain is listening, processing and thinking about what's being said - even when you're in the driver's seat trying to concentrate on traffic.

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Feds urge states to ban texting, talking on roads

(AP) -- Ren Bishop is one of many American drivers who texts, tweets and talks on her cellphone while she's behind the wheel - and thinks it should be up to drivers to use their discretion when it comes to ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

More drivers texting at wheel, despite state bans

(AP) -- For all the criticism and new legal bans, texting by drivers just keeps increasing, especially among younger motorists.

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

More police departments look to tune public out

(AP) -- Police departments around the country are working to shield their radio communications from the public as cheap, user-friendly technology has made it easy for anyone to use handheld devices to keep ...

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created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Voice-activated iPhone could snarl laws on drivers' texting

Apple's iPhone 4S is one of several new devices that make it possible to send text messages with both hands on the wheel. As drivers begin to use these new technologies, states may have to decide what they will and won't ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IROS gets earful on Google's self-driving cars (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lots of people now know about Google's self-driving car project. The latest stats find Google's fleet of robotic vehicles have done over 190,000 miles with only occasional human interventio ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Obama's fuel economy rules a job killer, auto dealers say

Flying squads of auto dealers descended on Washington, D.C., in late September. Amped up by a rabble-rousing talk by House Speaker John Boehner and clutching copies of a dealers' association pamphlet entitled "A Flawed Fuel ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 10

ISU study uses iPhone GPS tools to assist 12 Iowa towns with their Safe Routes to School programs

An Iowa State University-Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) study uses high-tech devices to encourage low-tech solutions to escalating childhood obesity rates in Iowa. This month the researchers are providing ...

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created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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