Texting while driving, a major cause for accidents
Technology has become a growing menace on the nation’s highways because of texting while driving.
A company from Georgia announced a partnership with an Irving, Texas, company that is supposed to provide software to the government agencies and businesses which abolish cell functions related to texting, e-mailing and Web-browsing in moving vehicles. The software will be provided by Manage Mobility, who will get the software from WebSafety Inc. Stacy Chisum, Manage Mobility’s vice president of sales, says that there have started to appear questions related to this subject especially since President Obama issued a federal order banning federal employees from texting while driving vehicles that are the property of the government. The practice has been banned by thirty states plus the District of Columbia, but this law is particularly difficult to apply because it is not an easy job trying to monitor who is obeying it and who is not.
There is a national movement trying to discourage it aimed mostly at the young drivers, but the intention is to spread it amongst corporate employees and the United States government. There are several applications that disable texting or surfing the Web when a vehicle is moving, like iZup, tXtBlocker, ZoomSafer and CellSafety.
