Posts Tagged 'intextication'

Intextication: Forget About the Guy in the Gorilla Suit, Watch Out for the BEAR!

You cannot make this stuff up. Check out this ABC video of a man casually using his phone while strolling through a California suburb – until he nearly comes face-to-face with a 400-lb black bear: I can’t decide if this is a texting ‘win’ or a texting ‘fail.’ On the one hand, this guy does [...]

[Guest Post] MyParkingSign.com Launches New “No Texting & Driving!” Awareness Campaign

When it comes to fostering communication and connections, cell phones are convenient, efficient and pretty darn cool. As cell phone users become increasingly dependent on their phones, however, they often fail to see the problem in using them at totally inappropriate times. How many times have you seen  a movie interrupted by a fellow movie-goer’s [...]

Smartphones and Smartcars: Fertile Ground for Innovation and Investment

Given American’s society long-standing love affair with motor vehicles is rivaled only by its new-found lust for mobile smartphones, today’s announcement that Intel Capital is creating a $100 million connected car fund should not come as a surprise to anyone. Indeed, modern consumers have developed an insatiable appetite for the mobile web in every aspect [...]

Distracted Driving in 2011: The Year in Review, Part One

As we approach the end of 2011, and the inevitable beginning of 2012, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year’s key moments in the fight to prevent distracted driving. The past month alone has seen incredible momentum on the part of the federal government, with anti-distracted driving activity from FMCSA, [...]

4 Reasons Why NTSB’s Call to Ban All Cell Phone Use While Driving Is Easier Said Than Done

  For an American society whose long-standing love affair with motor vehicles is rivaled only by its new-found lust for mobile smartphones — today’s NTSB recommendation that all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia enact legislation banning all forms of cell phone use (including hands-free use) while driving has potentially massive ramifications for [...]

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: NHTSA Numbers Show Road Fatalities Down But Distracted Driving Up

Let’s start with the good news, shall we? Here it goes: annual U.S. road fatalities are at their lowest level in over 60 years, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) newly-updated fatality and injury data for 2010. Says a Department of Transportation press release: “The record-breaking decline in traffic fatalities occurred even [...]

[Guest Post] “Siri-ing” While Driving: Safe Texting Alternative or a Path to Distracted Disaster?

Earlier this month, Apple changed the conversation yet again with the introduction of Siri, its new voice-activated “intelligent personal assistant.” While there’s a hilarious Tumblr dedicated to finding out just how much Siri ‘knows’ – a much more serious question about the ramifications of this innovative technology has also come up. A key function Siri offers [...]

[Infographic] Could Infographics Be a Secret Weapon to Prevent Distracted Driving?

If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you may have noticed that we’re big fans of infographics. There’s a lot of data out there about driver distraction – and we think infographics are a great way to offer some of the most important facts in a way that will catch people’s attention – and [...]

The Blind Leading the Blind: More than Half of Parents Distracted While Teaching Kids to Drive

Well, this is frankly *terrifying* news: over half  of parents were distracted by their mobile phones while teaching their teen how to drive. According to a new survey State Farm released this week, 53% of parents admit to being distracted by their mobile phones while they were supposed to be focusing on teaching their children [...]

The Great BlackBerry Outage of 2011: A Silver Lining of Safer Roads?

RIM has been having a tough month: the company has suffered the one-two punch of losing more smartphone market share to Android and iOS devices swiftly followed by the The Great BlackBerry Outage of 2011™. On October 5th, comScore revealed that RIM’s share of the U.S. smartphone market had dropped to less than 20%. According to [...]

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