Recently, U.N. Ambassador Ban Ki-moon urged countries from all over the world to address the growing and deadly epidemic of distracted driving.  It look likes Israel drivers may need to be reminded on the importance of safe driving.
According to a new survey from the Or Yarok Association for Safer driving, 94% of Israeli drivers engage [...]

It has been more than a year since the state of Virginia implemented a ban on texting while driving.  And so far, the number of citations is less than expected.
According to a report from WDBJ7, police records do not show high numbers for texting while driving.  Roanoke County issued six citations for texting while driving, [...]

The state of Alabama may not have put a ban on texting while driving yet, but some cities are moving forward on the issue.  On July 22, the Huntsville City Council became the 5th city in the state to make texting while driving illegal.
Proposed by Huntsville mayor Tommy Battle, the ordinance prohibits drivers from sending [...]

The state of New York does prohibit the use of a hand-held cellphones and texting while driving, but the secondary enforcement aspect of the law is making it tough to enforce.
Since November 2009, New York drivers are banned from using any hand-held mobile telephone, and other electronic devices, while in a moving vehicle. A violation [...]

Montreal drivers may know it’s dangerous to text and drive, but like in many other cities, it doesn’t stop them from doing it.
On July 20, Montreal’s CTV News asked random drivers what they thought about texting while driving.
You can watch the report and the interview with our software developer Mathieu Rene by clicking here.
Source: CTV Montreal, [...]

Everyone at Text’nDrive wanted to take the time to thank each and every one of you for supporting our application.
Just 24 hours after launching Text’nDrive, we are already in the top 10 most downloaded application in the U.S. App Store.
Thank you for joining our fight against texting while driving, and continue to spread the word [...]

While the state of Missouri bans drivers under the age of 21 from exchanging text messages in their car, the State Highway Patrol wants all drivers to stop texting while driving.  In order to do so, a new public awareness campaign was launched in mid-July, with the support of trucking company Con-way Freight and NASCAR’s [...]

Drivers Hear and Reply to Texts & Emails by Voice with New Text’nDrive™ Safe Driving Smartphone App
New Application Reads and Writes Emails and Texts so Driver’s can Keep their Eyes on the Road and Avoid the Dangers of Typing and Reading While Driving
MONTREAL, PQ – Text’nDrive™  today announced the first Smartphone application for BlackBerrys and [...]

On the first day of enforcing the new Highway Traffic Act, which prohibits motorists from talking on a hand-held cellphone, texting while driving and smoking with a child under the age of 16 in a car, police officers had issued more than 100 tickets, which should translate in 21,778.20$ in fines.
Of the 109 tickets issued [...]

It looks like Washington lawmakers made the right move by moving texting while driving from a secondary traffic offense to a primary traffic offense.  In the first 20 days following the enforcement of the new distracted driving law, the Washington State Patrol issued nearly 670 citations for cell phone and texting violations, almost 6 times [...]