Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Distracted Driving

A Tesla Model S following a 2016 crash. Source: NTSB via Flickr

Regulators Could Have Prevented Fatal Tesla Crash

By Kea Wilson | Apr 19, 2021 | No Comments

Two Tesla passengers are dead, partly because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ignored calls from the National Transportation Safety Board to require automakers to implement safe driver monitoring technology in "driverless" vehicles.

Why Some Dangerous Drivers Keep Their Licenses

By Kea Wilson | Aug 19, 2020 | No Comments

A new short form documentary from the Boston Globe exposes how a loophole in the national driver's license compact is keeping drivers who have killed on U.S. roads.

Study: Police Aren't Deterring Texting Drivers Much

By Kea Wilson | Jun 12, 2020 | No Comments

An over-focus on enforcement poses unconscionable dangers to black residents — and it doesn't even deter many dangerous drivers.

Drivers: Don't do this. Source: Creative Commons.

Dangerous Driving on the Rise During COVID-19

By Kea Wilson | May 7, 2020 | No Comments

Drivers aren’t just speeding up on our empty roads — they’re also braking harder, scrolling cell phones longer, and crashing more, new data show. In the five weeks after many states announced lockdown orders on March 16, the data company Zendrive said drivers’ use of cell phones behind the wheel is up 38 percent over […]

Congress is seeking to regulate self-driving cars after two hearings showed the lack of federal oversight in the nascent industry. Image: zombieite

Federal Government Doing Nothing On AVs

By Aaron Short | Nov 26, 2019 | No Comments

Right now, Big Auto is developing technologies that will affect every single person in this country — and the federal government is sitting on its hands.

N. Mill Avenue in Tempe is one of America's dangerous speedway strips. Photo: Google

Report: Uber’s Software Flaws Led to Fatal Crash

By Aaron Short | Nov 7, 2019 | No Comments

The self-driving Uber car that killed an Arizona woman in March 2018 was not programmed to identify pedestrians outside of a crosswalk and lacked software that could have spared her life, a federal safety agency said.

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