Tag: Distracted Driving
News | Distracted Driving
Time To Shame Phone-Distracted Drivers
What’s the biggest potential health risk we face in our everyday lives? A terrible disease? A violent crime? A terrorist attack? How about none of the above? A new study...
April 6, 2017
News | Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is as risky as drunk driving, study says
A new study by Cambridge Mobile Telematics, the world’s leader in smartphone-centric telematics, says that distracted driving is as dangerous as drunk driving. In the study, more than half of...
April 6, 2017
News | Distracted Driving
Study: Distracted Driving Triples Crash Risk
A new study shows cell phone use while driving more than triples the risk of getting in a crash. The company Cambridge Mobile Telematics collected smartphone data from hundreds of...
April 6, 2017
News | Distracted Driving
Put the hurt on distracted drivers: Current penalties are too light to discourage screen-obsessed scofflaws
The ubiquity of distracted drivers should alarm every Chicagoan. They’re roadway menaces, and we know how to spot them. Stopped at a red light, the distracted driver is seen from...
April 6, 2017
News | Distracted Driving
More evidence that smartphones and driving don’t mix
New data collected from thousands of drivers suggest that more than half of all trips that ended in a crash also included some form of distraction from a mobile phone....
April 4, 2017