Tag Archives: Research

Study: Brain can’t safely drive and use cell phone

June 16, 2013   Guest Author

national safety council

The National Safety Council acknowledges that the results announced by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety of a new distracted driving study, again confirm the presence and crash risk of cognitive distraction. The human brain is incapable of performing, at the same time, the tasks necessary to safely operate a motor vehicle while engaged in other cognitively demanding tasks such as a phone conversation or speech to text.

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Report: Explosive growth expected for automotive electronics industry

May 31, 2013   Guest Author

The global market for advanced automotive electronics is expected to jump 50% to $240 billion by 2020

The display of a Mitac International Corp.’s Magellan SmartGPS in an automobile. Once a luxury item, in-dash navigation is showing up in cheaper cars. That’s one reason the global market for advanced vehicle electronics is booming, according to a new report.

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Dangerous drivers "getting off lightly"

July 12, 2012   simon

Research by the Institute of Advanced Motorists has shown that drivers who commit serious offences are getting off more lightly then they did 10 years ago. Fifty-three per cent of those convicted of causing death or bodily harm through driving offences were sentenced to immediate custody (260 people) in 2011. This has dropped from the 83 per cent sentenced to immediate custody in 2001.
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