NHTSA USING TWITTER IS CALLING personally TEXT AND PERSONS UNIT

If I text and drive, do not tweet about it. Oh, wait, even better, do not text and drive.
The better known simply as the NHTSA, National Administration of Traffic Safety has begun to spread their message in a more personal level - people tweeting directly to openly admit, sometimes with joy, that texting and driving.

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Take a quick feed Twitter NHTSA look, and you will see a fairly steady stream of tweets directed directly to people who have talked about texting and driving online.

Of course, the NHTSA is correct. Distracted driving of any kind is a big no-no, whether texting and driving, or as one of the tweets suggested, reading the newspaper and driving. According to the organization, 10 percent of drivers between the ages of 15 and 19 fatalities were using their phone when they crashed in 2014. Thirty percent of drivers in their 20s who are involved in a fatal accident say they were using their phones before the accident. The campaign is actually quite ingenious, even if it means publicly shaming people one person at a time.


Automakers and technology companies alike have started looking for ways to reduce distracted driving. Apple, for example, has created carplay, an information system and car entertainment that integrates with the user's smartphone for things like navigation and music. The system is based on a screen in the car, but also makes heavy use of voice recognition, so you generally do not have to look at the screen, and when it does it is only for a short period of time.

However, although most people still do not have access to systems such as carplay, that's not an excuse for text or otherwise use your phone while driving. Maybe one day when self-driving cars take over finally be able to text and drive, but for now the risk is not worth it.