texting ban

Drivers distracted by talking or texting on cell phones killed an estimated 16,000 people from 2001 to 2007, according to a report released yesterday in the American Journal of Public Health. "Our results suggested that recent and rapid increases in texting volumes have resulted in thousands of...

GM will test an application to allow drivers to search Facebook through the OnStar communications systems it puts in its cars. The system will allow drivers to have access to the social media site through verbal speech recognition, and text messages will come back to the driver through a system that produces audible messages.