In recent years, study after study has raised the alarm about the dangers of talking on the phone while driving, with some saying you could be four times as likely to have a crash if you’re using a phone behind the wheel.
But new research indicates it may have been much ado about nothing.
Buckle your seat belts, folks.
According to Harris Poll chairman Humphrey Taylor regarding a new survey, “The number of drivers who engage in potentially dangerous, in some cases extremely dangerous, behaviors while driving is terrifyingly high.”
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has recently banned 1,700 “obscene” words and phrases from texts. The move is reportedly part of an effort to curb offensive spam.
According to a survey of 2,227 adults by the Pew Research Center, the average text message user sends or receives an average of 41.5 messages a day.
How much someone texts is not surprisingly tied to how old they are. Those in the 18-to-29 age group send or receive an average of 87.7 texts a day, whereas that total is only 4.7 for those in the 65-and-over group.
The days of "texting and driving" may soon one day be a thing of the past!!! Ford Motor Company is installing a feature in its new vehicles -- and many of its older ones -- that can read text messages out loud. The purpose behind this latest upgrade is to limit the amount of "texting and driving" by those in Ford vehicles, and it is all part of of their latest voice-activated t
A South Florida woman was in shock being that her latest cell phone bill is $201,000!!! Yes, when she opened her monthly cell phone bill, she was greeted with a massive size "Amount Due" bill. Celina Aarons has her two deaf-mute brothers on her plan. They communicate by texting and use their phones to watch videos. Normally, that's not a problem. Aarons has the appropriate data plan an
With the rumors of infidelity refusing to die down, it looks like Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz are in for more public scrutiny regarding their marriage — especially since Christina Elizabeth has confirmed she was having a “relationship” with the producer.
Is karma biting Alicia Keys in the butt? The singer and her husband, rapper/producer Swizz Beatz, got together while he was still married — though he was separated at the time — and now the producer is being accused of cheating again.
We have all seen it, and many of us may even be guilty of doing it, texting while driving. Too many lives have been taken by this senseless practice, and now Lafayette's Chief Of Police, Jim Craft, is addressing the problem we have here in Lafayette. The chief gives some rather disturbing statistics in this video, and even offers some great advice to all citizens.
As if you needed another reason, check out this video that was posted by Sean Symons on YouTube filming someone in front of him texting while driving. Now I'm not sure, but I'm thinking it's probably not real safe to be filming someone texting while driving while you're driving, but regardless, tell your kids, tell your wife, tell everyone that it's still not safe to text and drive (as well as not
In a recent poll, women have admitted to "hooking up" faster than ever before all because of social networking and texting. In the day and age we live in, communication happens instantly, and with that so too does attractions.