Technology Must Prevent Texting While Driving, Say Doctors

Distracted Driving Ryan Harvey via Flickr Cellphones are responsible for a quarter of all accidents in the U.S. Texting is particularly bad, since it serves as both a mental and visual distraction. One study found that texting makes an accident up to 23 times more likely. Enough is enough--we need to do someting, argue a father-son team of Canadian doctors, who wrote an editorial in the British Medical Journal arguing that PSA's and education not be enough. Instead--paradoxically--technological ...