WASHINGTON-A Bush administration-sponsored ad campaign aimed at teens will kick off early next year stressing the dangers of distracted driving, an approach more targeted than the one embraced by the cell-phone industry.Unlike industry's outreach efforts, which stress driver safety to the general population, the...
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said a report is under review that estimates fatalities and car crashes from 2000 to 2002 caused by driver cell-phone use, possibly providing a better picture of the distracted-driving problem in the United States. However, NHTSA head Jeffrey...
Driver distraction has become an increasing debate among lawmakers, with Congress likely to consider legislation soon that would ban the use of handheld cell phones while driving-nationwide. Such legislation would put a damper on the futuristic plans of the automotive and cellular industries to...
WASHINGTON-The National Transportation Safety Board today recommended to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that a stronger media campaign and educational effort be developed to curb distraction on the roadways caused by drivers who talk on their cell phones. The NHTSA would develop such...
This sad story could have involved any wireless carrier and anybody, but the phone Lazaro Leiva allegedly talked on while driving a Ford Explorer last March happened to be connected to a Nextel Communications Inc. network. Leiva, according to the Miami Herald, goosed his...
WASHINGTON—Dr. Jeffrey Runge, the newly installed administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said that NHTSA is watching closely the growing issue of driver distraction but said that it is every motorist's responsibility to avoid distractions."That is not to say people who manufacture...
While 54 percent of drivers usually have a wireless phone in their vehicle with them, only 3 percent of drivers are actively using that phone, according to a recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, which promotes...
WASHINGTON-The nation's growing driver-distraction problem has taken on new urgency as a result of a deadly traffic accident in Las Vegas allegedly caused by woman speeding and talking on her mobile phone when her Toyota Landcruiser plowed into another car, killing two women and...
WASHINGTON-As the nation prepares for a sea change that will come when a new president is elected, the wireless industry's main trade association experienced some major changes recently and prepared for an upcoming campaign on one of its thorniest issues-driver distraction.From `industry' to `Internet'The...
WASHINGTON-On land and in air, the ever-popular mobile phone-America's favorite toy in the New Millennium-is creating headaches for government, industry and citizens, and raising serious safety questions with no easy answers.Last week, federal regulators and lawmakers zeroed in on two growing areas of concern...
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, challenged with increased use of mobile phones, navigation systems, the Internet and other technologies in vehicles, will hold meetings the next two months on digital distractions and how to curb dangers they pose to drivers.The first forum on...
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to hold a series of meetings beginning in July on digital driver distractions, like mobile phones, that local, state and federal officials fear will lead to more traffic accidents as well as injuries and deaths to drivers...
Philadelphia, like many big American cities, has its share of thorny issues: crime, poverty, drugs, rotting schools and urban flight.But last Wednesday, one issue overshadowed them all in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The paper led, front-page banner headline and all, with a hearing last Tuesday by...
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, growing increasingly concerned about the use of mobile phones and other high-tech gadgets in vehicles, plans to expand its review of driver distractions to include Web services and other digital devices that car manufacturers intend to integrate into...
NEW YORK-The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration made several specific recommendations for future actions regarding highway safety in its recent report.Today, only the states of Minnesota and Oklahoma "include a specific data element relating to cellular phone use in their police accident reports,"...
NEW YORK-Noting there is inadequate data available about the impact of cellular phone use on car crashes, a federal agency nevertheless said cell phone use does play a role in auto accidents, one that is likely to grow as more people use wireless phones...
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is due to release a report next year on the safety of cellular phones in vehicles.A preliminary draft of the one inch-thick report is under review, according to a source who's seen the document.Research to date is mixed...
