The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports 3,275 people were killed in a single year — an average of about nine deaths every day. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines ...

Driving is a high-speed decision-making task. When essential vehicle controls require screen navigation, cognitive load increases. Reaction time slows. Situational awareness narrows. At 65 mph, a ...

New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found partial automation systems in vehicles increase the likelihood of drivers engaging in distracted behaviors, such as checking their ...

Near-miss moments on the road are starting to feel less like flukes and more like […] ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) In 2022, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported 3,308 fatalities in crashes ...

Plenty of us are guilty of hearing the alert from our phones and finding it difficult to resist the temptation to glance down, maybe even tap out a quick response. But during National Distracted ...

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and with an estimated 10 people killed and 1,000 injured on U.S. roads each day due to distracted driving, AAA and other traffic safety partners are ...

Car cabins are shifting back to tactile controls, giving drivers faster access to core functions and reducing distraction on road.

85% of Americans consider distracted driving as dangerous as or more so than drinking and driving. While many witness reckless driving, 65% claim they have 'never' driven distracted, revealing a gap ...

Distracted driving kills thousands of people on U.S. highways annually. In 2022, 3,308 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers, according to the latest data from the ...