In the wake of the National Transportation Safety Board recommendation last December that states and the District of Columbia ban the use of cellphones while driving, the company decided to adopt a similar ban: no employees may use their cellphones for business calls when they are driving.
WITH nearly two-dozen states now enacting some sort of restriction on the use of cellphones while driving, the random weaving and inexplicable speed variations, the short stops and sudden lateral jerks of drivers with phones tucked against their ears are slowly becoming things of the past.
A school bus driver involved in a fatal collision had been cited for careless driving in a deadly 1999 crash that touched off a national debate over the use of cellphones while driving, the police said Thursday.
As Americans have become more aware of the dangers of using cellphones while driving, the makers of cars and mobile devices have increasingly sold hands-free and speech-recognition technologies as safer alternatives.
Many were using their cellphones while wearing the glasses — defeating a declared purpose of the new gadget, to free you from having to look at your phone.
(After his son's death, Mr. Teater worked 18 months for a company that is developing technology that can prevent a driver from using a cellphone while the car is in motion, and he still owns shares in the company).
Several Republicans, including Rep Jeff Denham, a Republican from California, told Hart that they were baffled that three weeks after the crash, accident investigators still could not say for certain whether Bostian was using the cellphone while the train was in operation.
Checkout lines are nonexistent because we buy items with our cellphones while browsing the store.
Bus drivers in Cleveland are prohibited from using cellphones while behind the wheel.
