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Oct 22, 2010

Distracted Driving * USA - Deaths fall 6%

Says Ray LaHood: “These numbers show that distracted driving remains an epidemic in America"

Washington,DC,USA -Bloomberg/Automotive News -September 20, 2010: -- Traffic deaths tied to driving while distracted by activities such as talking on a mobile phone or eating fell 6 percent last year from the previous 12 months, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said...   Crashes linked to drivers being distracted behind the wheel caused 5,474 deaths last year, down from 5,838 a year earlier and accounting for 16 percent of all road fatalities in 2009, unchanged from the previous year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...   Researchers think the official statistics underestimate the number of crashes caused by distracted driving, LaHood said in the statement. Police reports in many states don't document inattention as a cause, he said...  Drivers in their 20s are the most likely to be involved in a fatal crash tied to distractions, according to the statement. For mobile phones in particular, the 30- to 39-year-old group had the highest involvement...   NHTSA's statistics show that distracted-driving fatalities as a portion of all deaths increased to 16 percent last year from 10 percent in 2005, the agency said...   The National Safety Council found in a January study that 1.4 million crashes a year are caused by drivers using mobile phones and at least 200,000 more by drivers who are texting...


* Cars Born to Run With Smartphone Apps

New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, Automotive News, by JOHN R. QUAIN -October 12, 2010: -- Most auto dealers will tell you that more buyers ask about how to connect an iPhone to a car or about the latest collision avoidance systems than they do about how quickly a car goes from zero to 60. So automakers are pumping up the technology...
(Photo: OUT LOUD OnStar plans to offer text messages that can be read aloud, spoken Facebook updates and the ability to play Pandora channels over a car’s stereo system)
The idea is to be able to offer continually updated services and features by relying on the smarts of smartphones rather than on in-dash computers, which may be obsolete before they roll off the assembly line. The first apps that work with Sync are Open Beak (a Twitter reader), Pandora (a music service) and Stitcher (a podcast news and information service)...   The Companies say the voice controls will reduce the threat of driver distraction. They plan to introduce these features gradually, starting this fall and extending over the next year...

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