Navdy announced that it is shipping a device that can be placed in any vehicle (and even moved between them) that places smart device information into the user’s line of sight without blocking the view of the road using augmented reality (AR).
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Last month I took AT&T’s 21-Day Challenge, a part of the long-running #ItCanWait campaign that encourages drivers to keep their eyes on the road and off of their mobile devices. Here’s what I learned from the experience.
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Distracted driving is dangerous driving. Please join me in AT&T’s #ItCanWait 21-Day Challenge.
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A new initiative to reduce distracted driving.
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Most of us thought we were adults in our twenties, but brain research shows it takes a long time to finish developing our minds. Risky behavior is a prominent feature of the adolescent brain; how can we keep our kids safe?
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Driving on turnpikes each daily is certainly expensive…
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Did you know everything you needed to about driving when you got your license? The author didn’t! Read his list of everything he wished he knew back then.
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A famous magician was driving down a straight road when suddenly… POOF!
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The 2015 Heels and Wheels event gathered a fantastic collection of cars for an all-woman audience of bloggers and journalists to take for a drive.
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Have you seen that image that suggests how to drive across the USA “hitting all the major landmarks”? Here’s a better plan.
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At the #ChevySafety event recently held in Detroit during Teen Driver Safety Week, we heard from a panel of experts on teen driver safety and got a behind-the-scenes look at all that goes into making cars as safe as possible for all of us.
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The snow may be gone, but rain and wet roads pose their own unique driving hazards. Do you know what to do to stay safe when driving on wet roads?
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The people at BRAKES Driving School are on a mission to make your teen driver safer behind the wheel.
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Science News featured a story on why science is constantly showing that talking on a phone (texting, holding, or hands-free) while driving is dangerous, and why the average person doesn’t want to hear it.
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It’s not too late for a summer road trip. In fact, sometimes the best road trips are the ones you don’t waste too much time planning.
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New research indicates that Google Glass and similar heads-up displays induce sufficient distraction to endanger the user’s navigating or other activities. Google Glass is intended to reduce problems such as trying to walk safely while also glancing down at a smartphone. However, research indicates that diffusing attention is dangerous in several ways that these devices may not address.
Continue ReadingMatt Blum is very impressed by the 2012 Kia Rio, Optima Hybrid, and Soul, for both geeky and non-geeky reasons.
Continue ReadingA lot of us learned to drive a stick-shift somewhere back in high school or college. A lot of us shed more than a few tears as we got stuck on hills, ground the gears and made whoever owned that car want to pull out their hair and push us out of the driver’s seat. It’s a skill you never forget once you learn, just like riding a bike, but what if you’ve never had the chance? Chevy aims to help new drivers learn with their new Stay Clutch challenge.
Continue ReadingMy daughter has been traveling a lot since she was born because we don’t live near family. So she has been taking car trips since she was very young. She’s a very good car traveler which makes things easier for us, especially when we are driving back home to Michigan from North Carolina. But I […]
Continue ReadingNormally, I have nothing but good things to say about seatbelts (on those rare occasions when the topic arises). Sure, they might be irritating at times, but they’ve made a significant contribution toward making travel safer —they also do a …
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