Comments on: Will Ads Stop Your Dangerous Texting Habit?

By: Forget Texting, Let’s Talk About Taking Pictures While Driving

Forget Texting, Let’s Talk About Taking Pictures While Driving — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:35:59 +0000

[...] By Stacey Higginbotham Jul. 30, 2010, 10:35am PDT No Comments Everyone talks about texting while driving, but what about something I think may be even more distracting: “snapping while [...]

By: 1 in 4 Adults Admit to Texting While Driving

1 in 4 Adults Admit to Texting While Driving — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:06:21 +0000

[...] driving before drivers understand that they can’t always get away with it. For that reason, carriers have started to join in on public awareness campaigns to illustrate the dangers that texting brings when operating a [...]

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:52:01 +0000

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Software Breaks the Driving While Smartphoning Addiction | Bestel uit china — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:15:54 +0000

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By: Matt Howard

Matt Howard — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:51:15 +0000

I’d really like to answer your multiple choice survey “what will stop you from texting while driving” — but unfortunately it’s missing a “technology” option.

One year ago i was leaving my neighborhood headed to work when i got a text. I looked down. Looked up. And i hit a 9 year boy on his bike. He was OK — thank God. But i was the scariest moment of my life.

Since then i have dedicated myself, along with my partners, to developing a company called ZoomSafer where we have created patented software for mobile phones to prevent distracted driving.

Distracted driving is a hugely complicated behavioral problem which requires a multi-faceted solution.

Legislation will help. Education will help. Even advertising and Twitter streams will help. But simple and inexpensive technology such as ZoomSafer holds the most promise to solve this problem.

It’s available now and is already helping motorists all over the country make better choices so they are less distracted and more focused when driving. You can try it out for free at http://www.zoomsafer.com.

Thanks for the opportunity to post.

Matt@zoomsafer.com

By: Michael Riemer

Michael Riemer — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:24:27 +0000

Several recent stuides have shown that most drivers recognize the dangers of texting and driving, but continue to do it anyway (even when they know it is illegal as well). I have spoke with several behavorial psychologists on this topic as well and it is a very challenging and difficult habit to break — there was even some talk that there is an addictive component (a release of dopamine in the brain everytime the phone beeps and buzzes). This is obviously a complex issue that will require more than just legislation and education. Please check out http://www.zoomsafer.com a new solution that is easy to download to your phone and helps keeps drivers focusd on the road but still connected with friends, family and co-workers

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:01:43 +0000

Having seen inattentive drivers staring at their phones while weaving in and out of lanes, I’m aware that this is serious. However, many people out there are such narcissists that the idea that anything bad would happen to them while texting is hard to combat. It’s why so many people still drive drunk.

Your solution for searching phones during a routine traffic stop, however, is too extreme for my tastes.

By: brabrantia

brabrantia — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:13:22 +0000

I used to be an avid text while driving fan, that is until I totaled my car and put someone else in the hospital. The word really needs to get out about how dangerous it is. While some states have hands free driving laws, it really needs to be ALL states. Verizon has a good idea going on, except I think that this billboard is not going to do it. they need something that really captures the drivers attention.

By: Mark Kelley

Mark Kelley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:11:25 +0000

This is a serious problem. Nobody would consider fighting MADD to reduce penalties against DUI, even when there are no accidents, let alone injuries, involved. And that’s a decision made by somebody who’s central nervous system is impaired by alcohol. If you’re texting while driving, you are (hopefully) stone cold sober – yet engaging in activity that has been demonstrated to impair your driving more than intoxication. People have been killedBy any logic driving and texting should face similar penalties:

- first offense 24-48 hours in jail, 5 years probation, 30 day full license suspension, 6 months restricted license, $2000 fine, 3 month alcohol awareness program

- second offense: 96 hours – 30 days days in jail, 2 year loss of license, and now the state forces offenders to install a “breath machine” in their car.

Point is that Verizon knows this is more of a time-bomb than “brain cancer” as this is real and demonstrable.

http://tinyurl.com/ybay4lg

I’m thinking of starting a group FAT-D (fathers against text-driving)

Proving it will be easier than a DUI. If you are pulled over for any reason and your phone is nearby, your records could be searched and if you had sent a message in the 10 or so min prior to being pulled over – that should be enough to convict (stoplight or not).