A just-released study looks at how new in-car technology is taking our eyes off the road. Consumer Reports focuses on vehicle "infotainment systems," including touch screens and controllers on the ...

All it takes is a brief moment of distraction and your world can change radically for the worse. When driving a car, a split-second difference can determine whether you ram into that car ahead of you, ...

SIX. APRIL IS NATIONAL DISTRACTED DRIVING AWARENESS MONTH. DRIVERS ACROSS FLORIDA DO STILL TEXT AND DRIVE, EVEN THOUGH IT IS ILLEGAL. IT’S NOT JUST TEXTING THAT IS DISTRACTING DRIVERS. AS PART OF OUR ...

We’ve all done it: You’re driving along, a text comes in, and even though you know you shouldn’t do it, you take a quick peek. Distracted driving is common and, according to a new report from Zendrive ...

In a time of advanced cell phone features like Bluetooth and “do not disturb” mode, drivers have the tools to reduce distractions behind the wheel. Yet distracted driving continues to make U.S. roads ...

New research shows that many drivers are profoundly distracted by their phones when they're going past first responders working accidents on the roadways. New research from the National Safety Council ...

Humans who think they can multitask while sitting at the wheel of a moving car continue to be a problem—one that claimed more than 3,300 lives in 2022, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety ...

ATLANTA - The Governor's Office of Highway Safety found that more than half of car crashes in Georgia in 2022 were caused by a distraction, according to a new report. Officials say a lot of the time ...

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month In 2022, 3,308 people were killed and 289,310 people were injured in U.S. traffic crashes involving a distracted driver AAA research has found that ...

The number of pedestrians injured while on their phones has doubled since 2005. A young man is shown texting and walking in this undated stock photo. Getty Images — -- We’ve all been warned about ...

News of Covid-19 is sweeping the nation, but other serious threats to safety remain. Distracted driving, for example, claimed the lives of 2,841 people in the United States in 2018. Among those killed ...