Travel Tech Gadgets: travel safety

Sep 20, 2020

Back To Travel One Step at a Time

Back To Travel Back To Life

Slowly but surely some travel restrictions are being lifted or updated. The pandemic hit the travel industry hard and it will take years to recover. It is unlikely that it will be the same as it was before COVID. I think that the industry and the world would move forward changed for the better hopefully. With this in mind below are some helpful resources to help you determine and plan your travels.

Oct 8, 2014

What Should You Do Before Your Next Trip

What Should You Do Before Your Next Trip

Came across this article What Should You Do At Home Before Coming to Rome, Italy, and Europe and knew it would be a great one for our readers. It provides great step by step travel tips that would let you enjoy your trip from start and throughout.

"For many travelers, the greatest amount of stress is NOT the trip, but preparing for the trip."

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Jan 28, 2014

No Texting and Driving

STOP Texting and Driving

Information on texting and driving facts from the DOT indicates cell phones – texting or talking
- were responsible for 1.6 million accidents a year, which resulted in half a million injuries and deaths.
- 330,000 injuries per year – Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Study
- 11 teen deaths EVERY DAY – Ins. Institute for Hwy Safety Fatality Facts
- Nearly 25% of ALL car accidents

Per CDC website, 69% of drivers in the United States ages 18-64 reported that they had talked on their cell phone while driving within the 30 days before they were surveyed. In Europe, this percentage ranged from 21% in the United Kingdom to 59% in Portugal.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 11% of all drivers under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crash. This age group has the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted. For drivers 15-19 years old involved in fatal crashes, 21 percent of the distracted drivers were distracted by the use of cell phones

Did You Know?
Engaging in visual-manual subtasks (such as reaching for a phone, dialing and texting) associated with the use of hand-held phones and other portable devices increased the risk of getting into a crash by three times. (NHTSA)
Sending or receiving a text takes a driver's eyes from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds, the equivalent-at 55 mph-of driving the length of an entire football field, blind.
Texting and driving is as bad or worse than drinking and driving

For more texting and driving statistics see the Driving while Intexticated infographic below

Stop before it gets worse

Solutions & What is Being Done
- States have or are passing laws that envolve distracted driving using cell phones. For current laws, see state map on NHTSA site
- New Jersey and several other states have texting and driving as a primary offense with steep fines
- On October 27, 2010, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration enacted a ban that prohibits commercial vehicle drivers from texting while driving.
- New technologies are being developed and hitting the market
a. Safe Driving Systems KEY2SAFEDRIVING

technology that will not allow texting while driving
easily installed within your vehicle, no tools required
reroutes calls directly to voice mail and sends automated text message responses saying that the driver will respond when they have safely reached their destination