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The 'Blueprint for Ending Distracted Driving' plan encourages the remaining 11 states without distracted driving laws to enact and enforce this type of legislation. It also asks the auto industry to adopt new guidelines for technology to reduce the potential for distraction on devices built into, or brought into, vehicles.
Read More →In the internal market analysis, the distracted driving technology developer said that it found only 5% of companies have deployed a solution from one of the top five vendors, which are capable of supporting such a large workforce.
Read More →The company said the Coca Cola driver, Araceli Venessa Cabral, was driving a car, not a truck, and worked in a sales role, rather than as a delivery driver, as originally reported by law firm Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys. The driver was also using a hands-free device, Coca Cola said, which is consistent with, and exceeds, Texas state law requirements.
Read More →Coca Cola released a statement after the trial, according to MSNBC, that said its cell phone policy is ‘completely consistent with, and in fact, exceeds the requirements of Texas law,’ and that the company disagrees with the jury’s verdict and plans to appeal.
Read More →Although more companies are taking steps to enforce written cell phone use policies, according to the ZoomSafer study, only 26% of survey respondents felt 'very confident' that current enforcement methods are sufficient to modify driver behavior.
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Once installed in either a commercial fleet or residential vehicle, the device will disable the vehicle from starting until the driver’s phone is secure in a locker component.
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The new law, which takes effect Aug. 1, makes Alabama the 38th state to outlaw the practice of texting while driving.
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SARASOTA, FL - Dock-N-Lock LLC has developed a patented solution that will provide business owners and parents some peace of mind in their fight against cell phone distracted driving.
Read More →The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration estimate on-the-job crashes cost employers more than $24,500 per property damage crash. Both organizations found that the cost rises to $150,000 per injury and to as much as $3.6 million per fatality.
Read More →In an audit of a fleet of 100 FMCSA-regulated vehicles found that there were 450 cell phone distractions per day, 111 distractions per hour and four distractions per mile driven.
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