10 EheXewilork ines vernonDMI VIR Met EM eye ar eco d by technology behind the wheel—with tragic consequences. Could a new roadside enforcement tool for police make a difference? PATRICIA SMITH 1 November Olio-Rojas was live-streaming on Facebook. He we 20-year-old Onasi Wg Bb scat man oo mies pernour He smashed into a gabage tk and Head tobe pled sly jue, But he survived oid Brooke Miranda H as lucky. She was also live-streaming on Facebook. Suddenly, a tractor: slammed into trai the back of her Suzuki Forenza Horrific accidents like these are evidence of what author ties say has become a crisis of distracted driving. and social media while they are driving. They also inter act with increasingly complex of the National Highway Watch a vdeo on distracted driving at AVERAGE NUMBER ef seconds your eyes ae off the road when sending atest youre of afotbal ie. 660000 ein itt nom, Traffic Safety Administration, Dist driving entered the national SBRBCIOWRHER a decade ago. Back then, the problem mainly involved people who nade calls or sent texts from their cell- phones. Now a host of new technologies are taking drivers’ eyes, o at least their hinds, off the traffic around them, Car WiFi is common. Built-in systems for giving voice commands to phones are also getting more popular. Drivers are mounting tablets and smartphones on their dash boards. Snapchat a to post photos that record the spe: gation app Waze rewards driv cers wit points when they repo d of the vehicle, The nav fon a Pennsylvania highway. “fgngsSimph,waflc jams and accidents. Hughes and her 19-year-old that's enough ime passenger were both ki tocoverthelenath Surge in Deaths Is all led to a boom in icles. Safety experts contributing toa surge in highway deaths. 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In 2008, two trains crashed into each other in California when a train engineer was texting and missed a red light. Twenty-five people were killed and 102 were injured. ‘Texting & Selfies Lawmakers have tried to stop distracted diving, without much success, Since2007, 46 states an the Distit of Columbia have banned texting while driving, Fourteen states and D.C. have banned the use of handheld de driving, Yet the problem ing. Their intent iso HB people rom sing thelr phones, But authorities say it's very hard to enforce distracting laws. The nin reasons that police must prove that someone they pulled ove was sending ext or sing an ap. Now, lawmakers in New York State es While Despite bans, 2° '0P88 2 contover sial solution: giving police seems to be getting worse, @ Aird Of ticers a new device called Americans confess in sur- drivers admit a Textalyzer. It would voys that they‘restil texting tg texting —°€ the digital while driving. They ar also using Facebook, Snapchat, and taking selfs. Ina 2015 survey by Erie Insurance, a third of drivers admitted to texting while driving, Three-quartess said they'd seen other drivers doit ‘The federal government wants more phones to include a “driver mode.” That ‘would block features that create distrac- tions for drivers. Several states have Increased the penalties for distracted driv while driving, ° 1 Bwtbalyzer. The Breathalyzer has long been used by police to test the blood aleohol level of drivers. An officer arriving at the scene of an accident could use the ‘Textalyzer to tap into a phone to check for recent activity. 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