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I am part of the HCD Survey Panel and have been participating in MediaCurves.com studies. MediaCurves.com conducts many surveys testing TV commercials. They just conducted a study with 300 viewers of a Public Service Announcement (PSA) from the U.K. illustrating...
I'm guilty of it myself. A new message arrives in my text inbox while driving and whether I'm on the highway, at a red light, or driving in the snow, it still peaks my curiosity to check who may have just texted me and even better, I typically respond...
Tags: text messaging, driving, psa, teenagers, texting
This video is already circulating the world wide web and I wanted to throw my 2 cents in. It's a Public Service Announcement created to convince teenagers not to text and drive. I think it's very effective. However, this PSA has stirred up controversy...
But for others, the video which is produced by UK's Gwent Police Department is a real representation of the risks and tragedies a driver can cause for his actions. The PSA video starts with a fun trip of 3 young ladies in a compact car but it drastically...
First, I will qualify this by saying that I had a very limited knowledge of Twitter or how it works. This being said, what I do know is that it scares me. I solemnly await the first "twitter related death". Is it really safe, or better...
This really scares me - the question was asked on a CNN poll today and the results were shown as 92 percent saying it "Should" be illegal and 8 percent said it should NOT be illegal... 8 percent (that's more than 15,000 people!!!) actually...
Tags: Cell Phone, texting, texting while driving
Locally I've noticed law enforcement in residents driveways with the radar going.it seems to me that with stricter DWI laws and lowered impairment requirements the local gendarmes are need of revenue from new sources.we have also seen lessened tolerance...
Tags: minnesota, money, police, law enforcement, seat belts, DWI, SPEEDING, ALCOHOL, cell phone, texting, awareness, hennipin county, anoka county, wright county, sherburne county, minneapolis, cars, driving, radar, impairment, revenue, fines, tickets, prison, jail
In 2001 New York state passed a law banning the use of a mobile phone while driving unless a hands free device was used. While there is much debate as to whether the law is either working or enforced; a bigger problem involving those...
Tags: texting, New York legislature
Video of the competition can be seen here It’s just a couple years before this is an Olympic sport. Seriously, textin? We reward textin? Now the video said she had to text full phrases with correct punctuation and grammar. If that’s true,...
Texting is the name of the game these days, but are our teens out of control? A texting competition held in New York has just crowned its third year texting champ. LG U.S. National Texting Championship sponsors the event. Teenagers...
Tags: teenagers, texting, LG, competition, championship, New York, money, text, teens