Distracted Driving facts
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Distracted driving from Pokemon Go is estimated to have led to 145,000 car accidents, injuring 30,000, killing 256 & causing $2B+ in damages
how to prevent distracted driving?
Not Using Turn Signals Causes More Accidents than Distracted Driving
What is the definition of distracted driving?
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what distracted driving is?
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In order to prevent Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht from deleting or encrypting his hard drive during his arrest at a public library, agents pretended to be quarreling lovers to distract him, at which point a USB drive was inserted that cloned his hard drive
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1 in 4 U.S. auto accidents are caused by distracted driving (cellphone use), and that distracted driving is considered 6 times more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.
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The Silk Road founder was arrested after federal agents got access to incriminating evidence on his laptop without his cooperation by copying data from its flash drive after distracting him. In response to this, a "kill switch" software was developed to quickly destroy all evidence on a computer
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Driverless cars could help eliminate accidents due to texting and cell phone use, as well as distracted driving accidents.
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2 million traffic collisions happen yearly from failure to use turn signals compared to half that from distracted driving.
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There is a car crash in the US every 10 seconds and 26% were due to distracted driving.