ONCI The Terror of Distracted Driving is real

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bSafeMobile by Cogosense is a software solution for smartphones and tablets that detects the driving state and automatically puts the device in safe mode while driving.

In safe mode, a curtain screen blocks access to the keyboard and screen. All notifications and alerts are suppressed – including incoming calls, texts and emails.

bSafeMobile also monitors and reports on unsafe driving behaviours, including speeding, hard braking and excessive acceleration.

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94% of teenagers understand the consequences of texting and driving, but 35% of them admitted that they do it anyway.

Of all the teenagers ever involved in fatal accidents every year, 21% were using a cell phone at the time of the accident.

Teen drivers have a 400% higher chance of being in a car crash when texting while driving than adults.

25% of teens respond to at least one text while driving, every single time.

10% of adults and 20% of teenagers have admitted that they have entire conversations over text message platforms while driving.

82% of American teenagers own a cell phone, and use it regularly to call and text message.

52% of these talk on the phone while driving, and 32% text on the road.
When polled, 77% of adults and 55% of teenage drivers say that they can easily manage texting while driving.

When teens text while they drive, they veer off lane 10% of their total drive time.

A study at the University of Utah found out that the reaction time for a teen using a cell phone is the same as that of a 70 year old who isn’t using one.

48% of kids in their younger teenage years have been in a car while the driver was texting. Over 1600 children in the same age group are killed each year because of crashes involving texters.

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