Can driving from 11 years old save lives?
Why not? Since driving involves both decision-making and physical skills, it makes sense to have kids spend longer doing those things before they get their license. Giving children as young as 11 experience behind the wheel could potentially slash accident rates and save lives. That’s according to research from Seat and Young Driver Training Ltd, [...]
If You’re Driving 80 MPH, How Long Does it Take to Drive 80 Miles?
Easy question, right? For Travis Chambers’ wife, it’s not so easy. If she ever figures out what he’s done…well, she might not figure it out. Don’t they teach math in school anymore?
Proposed NTSB Ban on Cell Phone Use by Drivers is Silly; and, It’s Unenforceable
This week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that there be a national ban on cell phone use by drivers. This seems like the typical big-government-every-issue-is-a-nail-and-we-have-a-big-hammer approach to solving perceived “problems.” Let’s pass another law! Radley Balko (the Agitator) has a solution that would work in many cases like this: use common sense. If you’re [...]
Abu Dhabi Traffic Accidents Dropped 40% During the BlackBerry Outage
Interesting – and not really surprising. Do you notice every day while driving around how many people are looking down at their phones? Here’s what happens when they don’t have anything to look at. There’s some surprising good news to come out of the BlackBerrys maligned worldwide outage: fewer car accidents in the United Arab Emirates. [...]
Driving While Talking on the Phone is Dangerous, Right? Maybe Not…
Image via Wikipedia You see it all the time. Somebody in front of you is driving really slow, or erratically, or they’re slow to get going from the stop light. When you blast around them, you see the reason: they’re talking on the phone. It’s pretty much part of the canon of accepted theories that [...]
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