Ban Texting While Driving? New Apps Help

Release Date ‎Mar 30, 2010‎ in Post Chronicle

 
   

Gov't: Ban Texting at Wheel by Commercial Drivers

ABC News - Ken Thomas - 31 Mar, 2010
AP By KEN THOMAS AP Writer The Transportation Department is proposing a ban on text messaging at the wheel by interstate commercial truck and bus drivers. ...

DOT Proposes Official Truck Driver Texting Ban

Truckinginfo - 31 Mar, 2010
US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a federal rule that proposes to specifically prohibit texting by interstate commercial truck and bus ...

Drivers getting off cheap with $30 texting fine

Sun-Sentinel - 31 Mar, 2010
I read the article in the Sun Sentinel on March 25 about the ban on texting while driving. The Florida Legislature's Senate Transportation Committee ...

Letters, 3/31: Pass texting ban

Lincoln Journal Star - 31 Mar, 2010
The Nebraska Legislature soon will decide the fate of LB945, a ban on texting and driving. The Nebraska Safety Council strongly supports bans on texting, ...

Cell Phones " Hang Up And Drive!

The Auto Insurance - 31 Mar, 2010
It is no secret that almost 80% of all automobile accidents are due to driver distraction. Cell phones are a biggie: over the past three years, ...

Washington next state to ban drive-by-talking

Today's Trucking News - 31 Mar, 2010
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Washington State has become the 21st state to ban talking or texting on a cell phone while driving with a hand-held device. ...

Apps and Disabling Texting While Driving - Cell Phone Safety

National Ledger - Marty Cox - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
There's an app for that? Cell phone apps are available that can stop texting and driving. While companies worry that employees are texting (and ...

Stop texting and driving, before they make you

Creative Loafing (blog) - Rhiannon Bowman - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Who is “they”? Good question. Maybe your insurance company. Maybe the manufacturer of your next car. Maybe the state. Whoever “they” become, software ...

Many apps available in the market that warn against texting while driving

Thaindian.com - Aishwarya Bhatt - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
New York, Mar 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Numerous software companies have made apps, which warn the drivers against the unhealthy habit of texting while driving. ...

Apps To Curb Use Of Cell Phones For Texting While Driving

Thaindian.com - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
March 30, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Several companies have come forward to address the major problem of drivers holding a cell phone while driving, ...

Minnesota Legislature Takes A Closer Look At Distracted Drivers

InjuryBoard.com (blog) - Mike Bryant - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
The first week of March, a joint group of Minnesota Senators and Representatives looked at the issues concerning distracted drivers. ...

Texting While Driving Prevention App

E Canada Now - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
While many mobile phone users are in the habit of texting while driving, it appears that new mobile phone applications could help remind drivers to put ...

Hang up, shut the phone

Collegian - Sean Tomlinson - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Most people reading this paper don't do anything more dangerous than driving their car or truck. It is a vehicle that usually weighs ...

Ban Texting While Driving? New Apps Help

Post Chronicle - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
by Staff New cellphone applications that aid in the effort to ban texting while driving have emerged as possible tech solutions for a human problem. ...

Letters: Tips for breaking the habit of texting and driving

MLive.com - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
By Muskegon Chronicle While the Michigan Legislature debates the legality of texting while driving, this dangerous practice continues on our state's ...

Apps and Texting While Driving, applications to help you

Phones Review - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Many drivers are continuing to text whilst driving, which is very dangerous indeed and so much so can relate into deaths by dangerous driving. ...

2 Apps Ban Texting While Driving: iPhone, Android and others

Product Reviews (blog) - Peter Chubb - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
There is no denying that texting while driving has become a huge problem, so much so that Barack Obama had banned this towards the end of last year for ...

Driving Responsibly: Apps Join the Fight

Mobile Deals Compared (blog) - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
Unlike alcohol, which has some pretty obvious effects and a full depiction of media as a negative state, mobile phone use sits on a more neutral throne. ...

Hand Free Cell Phone and Texting while Driving Ban in Washington State Tougher ...

Best Syndication - ‎Mar 29, 2010‎
[Best Syndication News] Washington state's governor Christine Gregoire signed a tougher law for talking on cellphones and texting while driving that will ...

Examples of Apps to Curb Texting While Driving

KOLO - ‎Mar 29, 2010‎
Reporter: AP Comments are posted from viewers like you and do not always reflect the views of this station. One sentence makes a story? ...

Wash. state to ban texting while driving

eTrucker - ‎Mar 29, 2010‎
By eTrucker Staff Washington became the latest state to enact a law banning texting or cell phone use without a headset while driving. On March 26 Gov. ...

Drivers don't need extra distraction

The Daily Cougar - Callie Thompson - ‎Mar 29, 2010‎
Thousands of car accidents occur every year for various reasons. ...

Apps to curb texting while driving

msnbc.com - Peter Svensson - ‎Mar 29, 2010‎
Richard Drew / AP By Peter Svensson NEW YORK - Cars use lights, bells and buzzers to remind drivers to fasten their seat belts as they start their engines. ...

Right to Repair Act Gains Bipartisan Support in Senate

Truckinginfo - ‎Mar 29, 2010‎
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) introduced the Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act Thursday. The House version of the bill ...

 

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