Kansas, Missouri Ranked Among 10 Worst States for Distracted Driving
Kansas, Missouri Ranked Among 10 Worst States for Distracted Driving
Eyes on Road, Not Your Phone Share this story Published February 26th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: Nearly nine in 10 people engage in smartphone activities while driving. (Courtesy | Unsplash)
Kansas and Missouri just made the top 10 on a less-than-desirable list: the worst states for distracted driving.
According to a new study from WhistleOut, Missourians spend 7.35% of their time on their phones while driving. Kansans, ranked the sixth worst state in the country, are even less focused on driving.
Kansas and Missouri are among the 10 worst states in the country for distracted driving. (Source | WhistleOut)
Tesla Recalls 135,000 Model S and Model X Vehicles Over Faulty Flash Memory
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A Model S sedan on the display floor in Shanghai in March 2015. (Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP, Getty Images)
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Electric car giant Tesla has issued a recall for some 135,000 vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal, due to failing touchscreen panels.
Under the terms of the recall, many owners of Model S sedans built from 2012 to 2018 and Model X SUVs built from 2015 to 2018 will be advised of the risk that the flash memory chips in their touchscreens could fail due. These 8GB NAND chips burned out much faster than expected, due to the expanded size of Tesla firmware and the need to process increasingly large volumes of data.
They’re rebels who need to be paused.
The per-mile crash rate for teenage drivers is a whopping four times higher than drivers over 20, according to a new study that mostly blames teen speeding. But some advocates think addressing the problem will take far more than the enforcement and education-based solutions outlined in the report and must include giving young people mobility options besides climbing behind the wheel.
In a new report financed by the Ford Motor Company Fund the automaker has been attempting to rebrand itself as a safety and mobility outfit in recent years, to a mixed response from advocates analysts at the Governors Highway Safety Association found that a whopping 43 percent of teenage drivers who killed someone in a car crash in the last four years were speeding, compared to 30 percent of adult drivers.