David D. Teater, senior director of the National Safety Council, whose son was killed by a driver talking on her phone, said he was pleased to see telecommunications companies, including AT&T, no longer lobbying against laws aimed at curbing driver distraction caused by electronic devices.
The Suffolk County Legislature, seeking to curb distracted drivers, voted on Oct. 3 to ban the use of car phones while driving, unless they are equipped with a speaker-phone or some other hands-free device such as an earpiece.
When a taxi driver takes on a passenger at the curb, that driver is literally taking on a financial risk – will the person who just entered the cab be able to pay at the destination?
A Town Car pulls up to the curb, the driver gets out to open the door and greet his fare, the man greets the driver, and a broad smile breaks across his face -- a smile that lights up his entire face and the world at the same time.
Then just before the pair reached the curb, the driver, also colored, shouted through the doorway, "Officer!
Especially in Soho and the West End, women in particular are advised by police to avoid curb-crawling drivers offering their vehicles as unlicensed taxis: there have been a series of sexual assaults on people who took up the offer.
The investment and strategic partnership essentially aims to bring the "Internet of Everything" to the automotive industry in the hopes of building a safer driving experience, reducing traffic congestion, collisions, runaway Priuses, curbing bad drivers and so on.
Cars sometimes pull up to the curb, and the drivers offer to take him where he is going.
Stephan Shier, owner of Dutch Bike Company in Seattle, says the best bike towns have a solid infrastructure in place, are flat and put a lot of effort into what he calls traffic calming effects, such as auto-restricted zones, cul-de-sacs and chokers, or longer extensions of curb which encourage drivers to slow down.
