An AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study released on Tuesday found that the likelihood that a 16- or 17-year-old driver will be killed in a car accident increases with each additional passenger, and decreases dramatically when an adult is present. AAA timed the release in conjunction with Global Youth Traffic Safety Month. As Joan Lowy [...]

The National Road Safety Foundation has announced the winner of its third annual “Drive 2 Life” PSA contest. The winning PSA, “Just because you can,” by Rebecca Rapin, a 17-year-old high school student from Hudsonville, MI, is airing on TV nationwide during May, to coincide with National Youth Traffic Safety Month. The PSA contest is [...]

State Attorneys General across the U.S. teamed up with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Ad Council to host a nationwide “Stop the Texts” Day on May 1. At the same time, the Ad Council released a new national survey finding that 44% of drivers between the ages of 16 and 24 [...]

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has called for a ban on all talking and texting on cell phones while driving any vehicle in the country. He urged the strengthening of the law at the Texas Distracted Driving Summit in San Antonio, Texas, on Thursday, and wrote about the issue on Friday, on his Fast Lane [...]

Anthony Levandowski, the project manager for Google’s self-driving car technology, told an audience at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) conference Wednesday that Google seeks partners in the automaking business to bring the car to market sooner than the next decade. David Shepardson, of The Detroit News Washington Bureau, writes: “Search engine giant Google Inc. [...]

A group of high school students are putting together a book about safe driving that will be aimed at other teens. As Cara Fitzpatrick writes for the Sun Sentinel, the group, comprised of journalism students at South Plantation High School in Plantation, FL, believes they can reach young people in ways that other safe driving campaigns [...]

To encourage teens to take distracted driving seriously, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is holding a contest. NHTSA invites high school students to design a creative icon that can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social networking sites. The icon will get the conversation going by helping [...]

Denver, Colorado-based Avanquest Mobile Technologies has launched a new application to help prevent distracted driving. Named “Mobile Safe Driving” (MSD), it is the newest module in the myMobile Companion suite of software for protecting people, devices, and content, according to the company press release. Mobile Safe Driving is available on the Android platform, and versions [...]

Drivers might want to be especially careful behind the wheel this coming Tuesday (April 17). That is the last day Americans have to file their 2011 income tax this year, and a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds there is a 6% greater likelihood that a driver will be [...]

More teens think drunk driving is riskier than texting while driving, according to a new survey by State Farm. The survey, conducted in February by Harris Interactive and released to the public on Tuesday, April 10 — during national Distracted Driving [prevention] Month — shows that 57% of teens with driver’s licenses admit to texting [...]