Collision Guard

According to some studies and an article in the LA Times, texting and emailing while driving is actually worse than driving while drunk.

“In a 2009 survey, Car and Driver magazine tested two of its staffers under a variety of conditions. It found that on average, driving at 70 mph, one man braking suddenly while legally drunk (0.08 blood alcohol content) traveled 4 feet beyond his baseline performance. But reading an e-mail while driving sober, he traveled 36 feet beyond the baseline result and 70 feet while sending a text. In the worst case while texting, he traveled 319 feet before stopping.” (LA Times)

Texting while driving is a serious problem and leads to thousands of entirely avoidable collisions each year.  Many of those collisions can result in injury or fatalities.  If you don’t believe the academic studies, take a look at this test from Mythbusters:

As I’ve said before, the key to stopping this behavior is to change the way we think about our lives behind the wheel.  Turn the cell phone off, put it in the trunk, turn the ringer off, etc. to keep yourself from using the phone on the road.  You can also invest in a text blocker device such as Key2SafeDriving to keep yourself and loved ones from texting and driving.

For more information on the statistics around drunk driving and texting while driving, check out this informative article in the LA Times.