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• Smart phone application iZUP prevents drivers from using their cellphones

  One in four American teens of driving age says he or she has texted while driving, and almost half of all youths ages 12 to 17 say they have been a passenger while a driver has texted behind the wheel, according to a survey released in November by the Pew ...

• Turn Car On; Turn Phone Off

  Like drivers chattering on their mobile phones, the cellphone industry was for years too distracted — by rising profits — to see the dangers ahead. As Matt Richtel wrote in The Times last week, the mobile phone industry promoted the glamour and convenience of “car phones” for years while failing ...

• Survey Says Truck Insurance Rates Drop As More Insurers Compete

  Most transportation insurance rates in the third quarter were decreasing as marketplace competition has increased, according to a brokerage firm survey. The NIP Group Inc. in Woodbridge, N.J., said that was the finding of its Transportation Insurance Pricing Survey (TIPS), which contacted transportation insurance brokers, wholesalers and underwriters involved with “thousands ...

• Tougher side air bag requirements proposed

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government wants to require larger and stronger side air bags on new cars and trucks. The proposal is the government's latest attempt to address deadly rollover crashes, which kill more than 10,000 people every year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the proposed ...

• Driven with distraction

  By all accounts, Joe Teater was a youngster with tremendous promise: smart, popular, interested in making movies and videos. But the 12-year-old Michigan boy was killed in 2004 when a driver ran a red light and smashed into the car in which Joe and his mother were riding. ...