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Gadgets and Distracted Driving

Dubious Record for Highway Safety Agency in Public Information Lawsuits FairWarining Reports

Dubious Record for Highway Safety Agency in Public Information Lawsuits

By Eli Wolfe on March 7, 2019

When sued for withholding records, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has fared poorly in court.

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Gadgets and Distracted Driving, Government accountability | Leave a comment

Apple Has Swatted Away Distracted Driving Lawsuits Without Much Trouble So Far FairWarining Reports

Apple Has Swatted Away Distracted Driving Lawsuits Without Much Trouble So Far

By Myron Levin on February 27, 2019

Editor's note: See update at end of story.

Garrett Wilhelm was chatting with the Facetime app on his Apple iPhone, police say, as he sped along an interstate highway northwest of Dallas on the day before Christmas in 2014. He crashed his SUV into a sedan carrying a young family, killing five-year-old Moriah Modisette and injuring her parents and sister. Ashley Kubiak was…

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Cell Phones, Consumer Protection, Gadgets and Distracted Driving | 2 Comments

Long-Running Government Study Finds Cellphone Radiation Causes Cancer in Rats

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Long-Running Government Study Finds Cellphone Radiation Causes Cancer in Rats

By Chelsea Conaboy on November 6, 2018

Despite federal assurance that the research doesn’t apply to people, critics say the results raise health concerns for children and others.

Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Cell Phones, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, food safety, Gadgets and Distracted Driving, Government accountability, Medical Errors, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace Safety and Health | 2 Comments

Safety Would Take a Back Seat if Senate Passes Bill on Driverless Cars, Critics Say FairWarining Reports

Safety Would Take a Back Seat if Senate Passes Bill on Driverless Cars, Critics Say

By Myron Levin on September 13, 2018

Consumer advocates are attacking a bill heading for a vote soon in the U.S. Senate that would clear legal obstacles for the deployment of driverless cars.

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Gadgets and Distracted Driving, Government accountability | 2 Comments

Study Finds Apple's CarPlay, Google's Android Less Distracting, But Still Not Safe FairWarining Reports

Study Finds Apple’s CarPlay, Google’s Android Less Distracting, But Still Not Safe

By Myron Levin on June 26, 2018

Automakers have packed many of their new models with distracting infotainment features that allow drivers not only to play music and get directions, but to talk, text and use social media while tooling down the road. Now new research has found that two popular smartphone-based systems –Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto – are somewhat simpler…

Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Cell Phones, Gadgets and Distracted Driving | 1 Response

Federal Trade Commission Warns Six Companies About Product Warranties FairWarining Reports

Federal Trade Commission Warns Six Companies About Product Warranties

By Christopher Jensen on May 1, 2018

Six manufacturers of products including computers, cellphones, video game gear and autos have been told by federal regulators to change the language in their warranties or possibly face charges of “unfair or deceptive acts.” The Federal Trade Commission sent warning letters three weeks ago to the six companies — Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Hyundai, ASUSTek Computer…

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Cell Phones, Consumer Protection, Gadgets and Distracted Driving | Leave a comment

Researcher Says Auto Safety Measures Prevented Millions of Deaths FairWarining Reports

Researcher Says Auto Safety Measures Prevented Millions of Deaths

By Christopher Jensen on March 12, 2018

Traffic safety measures ranging from seat belt and drunk driving enforcement to design standards for cars and trucks “averted a public health disaster” by preventing about 5.8 million deaths in the U.S. from 1968 through 2015, according to a new study. The analysis found that without federal and state policies, traffic deaths annually would “likely…

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Gadgets and Distracted Driving | 2 Comments

Use of Smartphones and Recreational Marijuana Cited in Rising Pedestrian Deaths FairWarining Reports

Use of Smartphones and Recreational Marijuana Cited in Rising Pedestrian Deaths

By Paul Feldman on February 28, 2018

The increasing use of smartphones and recreational marijuana may be contributing to a surge in the numbers of pedestrians killed in traffic crashes, according to a new analysis. The report by the Governors Highway Safety Association estimates that pedestrian fatalities totaled about 6,000 in 2017, roughly the same as the year before, when the official…

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Cell Phones, Gadgets and Distracted Driving | 1 Response

What Happens When a Driver Kills Someone While Fiddling With A Cellphone? Often, Not Much FairWarining Investigates

What Happens When a Driver Kills Someone While Fiddling With A Cellphone? Often, Not Much

By Paul Feldman on February 6, 2018

The victims include a Bible college student in Iowa who was bicycling home from work, a 13-year-old Michigan boy riding in his older sister’s car and a Minnesota school bus driver picking up the morning newspaper in front of his home. All were killed in recent years by distracted drivers who had been texting or…

Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Cell Phones, Gadgets and Distracted Driving | 10 Comments

California and 5 Other States Get Best Ratings for Highway Safety Laws FairWarining Reports

California and 5 Other States Get Best Ratings for Highway Safety Laws

By Paul Feldman on January 22, 2018

Amid a resurgence in U.S. traffic fatalities now taking roughly 100 lives a day, an advocacy group today issued a report card identifying states that do the most, and least, to improve highway safety.

Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Cell Phones, Gadgets and Distracted Driving | 1 Response

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Frustrated Advocates Increasingly Turn to the Courts to Fight Climate Change

By Hillel Aron

For some, climate change is a theoretical crisis looming in the distance. But for many coastal and island cities, the damage is here.

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Study Raises Concern About E-Cigarette Waste

By Eli Wolfe

Nearly two years ago, Jeremiah Mock heard a student in Marin County, California, complain that her school was littered with e-cigarette waste. A health anthropologist by training, Mock did some shoe-leather investigating in a student parking lot, where he found a significant amount of e-cigarette and tobacco trash.

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Even at Legal Levels, Contaminants Found in Tap Water Are a Cancer Risk

By Hillel Aron

Cigarettes, obesity, alcohol, the sun – it seems like everything in the world causes cancer. Now you can add one more to the list: tap water.

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Lawsuit Takes Aim at Sheltered Workshops, Where Disabled Workers Make Far Less than Minimum Wage

By Hillel Aron

For seven years, Michael Denoewer held a job in Marysville, Ohio, unpacking and organizing instruction manuals for new Honda automobiles. Born with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including epilepsy and autism, he was paid a piece-rate that in some years averaged between $1 and $2 an hour - well below the state and federal minimum wage.

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