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SAFETY * USA - Agency hears distracted driving ideas
(Video from YouTube, by crashednburned3 -11 Dec 2007: Elizabeth Hashagen finds out what happens when you become distracted while driving)
Washington,DC,USA -eTrucker, by Jill Dunn -20 Sept 2010: -- With the second national federal Distracted Driving Summit set for Sept. 21, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee approved recommendations on the subject three weeks earlier... The committee approved recommendations on decreasing distracted driving Aug. 30, which included assessing strengthened enforcement and education. The committee is comprised of stakeholders such as trucking, safety and enforcement leaders and provides advice to the agency on tasks it assigns members... The committee recommended the agency assess enforcement, including sanctions for technologies that cause distracted driving and classifying distracted driving violations and moving violations... It advocated the FMCSA undertake trucker education initiatives, such as mandating periodic training in addition to entry-level driver training... The committee also recommended that FMCSA assess research to develop standards for installing or modifying in-cab technologies that may cause distracted driving and focus on improving data issues, such as quantifying crashes resulting from distracted driving...
* November 2010 Elections: Speed, red-light cameras on the radar
DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -September 20, 2010: -- With Election Day six weeks away, voters in several communities around the country soon will be making decisions on what to do about automated enforcement. Among the communities that are slated to vote on the issue are two cities in the western United States... The use of red-light and speed-zone cameras has been a hot-button topic this year in one community in northwest Washington... The Nov. 2 ballot in Mukilteo, WA, can include a question on cameras to enforce traffic violations. The community located 25 miles north of Seattle will be the first in Washington to get a say on the issue... Ballots in Anaheim, CA, also will include a question on red-light cameras. Measure No. 1 will allow voters to decide whether to permanently prohibit the enforcement tool... If approved, the cameras would be outlawed from use in the city unless voters go back to the ballot and change the rule...
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