Replay of our Live-Blog from Day 2 of the Distracted Driving Summit

Below is a window where you can replay our live-blog activities.

Here's the link to our live webcast, with an archive of the summit. Here's a link to the Distracted Driving Summit home page; it has 2 good fact sheets from NHTSA and a Media Support page that can help those trying to blog on this event.

Comments

[Mark Kaepplein]

Seems like the nail painting lady could have been charged with neglegent homicide instead of a motor vehicle charge and would then get more time to work on her nails. Shouldn't need a new motor vehicle specific homicide law.

(testing this other dot.gov blog page)...

[prophet666]

thanks for the link to your live webcast and to the Distracted Driving home page will have a look.

[John Jones]

I commend you for the distracted driving summit and for your proposal to make it illegal to use a cell phone while driving, however I fear that making cell phone usage illegal is an incomplete solution.

Legislation also needs to include mandatory cell phone jammers be install in all vehicles (cars, SUVs, Trucks, etc.) sold in the US. This technology is readily available and when connected to the car's computer chip would add approximately $100 to the price of all vehicles sold.... It will ensure that any driver attempting to send or receive using a cell phone would have to pull over and turn their ignition off before any cell phones in the car would work, thus absolutely ensuring the law would be obeyed in new cars.... Legislation would still be required for all vehicles sold before the cell phone blockers are installed.