On the Road, Off the Phone01 Dec
On the Road, Off the Phone: How to talk to your Teenagers
From CTIA, The Wireless Association
Website: http://info.howcast.com/onroadoffphone
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Driving Us to Distraction13 Oct
Time Magazine
By GILBERT CRUZ AND KRISTI OLOFFSON Monday, Aug. 24, 2009
In late July, the Center for Auto Safety (CAS) released hundreds of pages of a previously buried 2003 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study that identified the cell phone as a serious safety hazard when used on the road. A bill introduced last month in the Senate would require all states to impose a ban on texting while driving; 17 states (including, most recently, Illinois, on Aug. 6) and the District of Columbia have passed such a ban, and seven states have outlawed driver use of handheld communication devices altogether.