• Can anything stop distracted driving?

  • Apr 24 2023
  • Duração: 24 minutos
  • Podcast

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Can anything stop distracted driving?

  • Sumário

  • After a decades-long decline in automobile fatalities, numbers began to go up with the dawn of smart phones. Laws banning use of cellphones while driving haven’t stopped the rise — and the dawn of smart cars seems to be making things worse.

    Today, we talk about efforts to stop distracted driving — and why they don’t seem to work. Read the full transcript here.

    Host: Gustavo Arellano

    Guests: L.A. Times auto industry reporter Russ Mitchell

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    Highways are getting deadlier, with fatalities up 22%. Our smartphone addiction is a big reason why

    ‘We are killing people’: How technology has made your car ‘a candy store of distraction’

    The DMV said it would investigate Tesla over self-driving claims. Then, crickets

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Sinopse

After a decades-long decline in automobile fatalities, numbers began to go up with the dawn of smart phones. Laws banning use of cellphones while driving haven’t stopped the rise — and the dawn of smart cars seems to be making things worse.

Today, we talk about efforts to stop distracted driving — and why they don’t seem to work. Read the full transcript here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times auto industry reporter Russ Mitchell

More reading:

Highways are getting deadlier, with fatalities up 22%. Our smartphone addiction is a big reason why

‘We are killing people’: How technology has made your car ‘a candy store of distraction’

The DMV said it would investigate Tesla over self-driving claims. Then, crickets

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