NPR: Waging the War on Distracted Driving

 Be sure to listen to this great segment on NPR about distracted driving and the state level bans against it. 

From NPR: 

Just a few years after most people sent their first text message, texting while driving is already banned in 19 states.

This swift public policy action banning talking or texting on mobile phones while driving is in stark contrast to what happened in the 1970s when people tried to get the public to take drunk driving seriously, says Chuck Hurley, the chief executive officer of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD.

"It was literally a joke on late-night television," Hurley recalls. "It was normal behavior; it was how people got home."

Hurley ran the National Safety Council in the 1970s, and he spent most of the Carter administration feeling like he was banging his head against the wall trying to get people to take drunk driving seriously.

Listen here.

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Distracted driving is dangerous. While on drive its better to concentrate on the road rather than the phone because It is better to listen to text messages rather than end up in hospital. I use drivesafe.ly mobile application to make sure my concentration is on driving.