Text Kills Tour rolls through Arkansas
| Updated: 9/24/2010 7:19 pm | Published: 9/24/2010 3:56 pm |
Distracted driving kills nearly 6,000 people a year and injures another half a million. Many of those people are young drivers. A new program is designed to shut down texting while driving.
We now send over a trillion texts a day. Even with laws against texting and driving, companies are coming up with ways to force drivers to put the phone down when behind the wheel.
It's called the Text Kills Tour. An RV rolling through college campuses across the country, trying to get students to stop texting while driving.
"I signed the bus because I am guilty of texting while driving," says student Jasmaine Lowery.
Nearly 10,000 have signed so far. In addition to all the signatures, there's also an application you can download for your smartphone. You go above 15 miles an hour, you're phone goes to sleep. The company Iconosys came up with the app and its using the bus tour to promote it.
"Accidents happen but when you're texting it's not so much an accident, it's all your fault. That split second affects your life, everyone else's. There's no point in taking that risk, a text can wait," says Josh Driver.
Driver says one of his best friends died texting while driving. So he's already stopped.
"If you've got a smart phone you can do the cool stuff like text to speech, that way you can talk and still do it. I'll do that from time to time. I've certainly had close calls when I was younger texting and driving," says Driver.
It's younger drivers stepping up at UALR willing to sign up to put the phone down.
We now send over a trillion texts a day. Even with laws against texting and driving, companies are coming up with ways to force drivers to put the phone down when behind the wheel.
It's called the Text Kills Tour. An RV rolling through college campuses across the country, trying to get students to stop texting while driving.
"I signed the bus because I am guilty of texting while driving," says student Jasmaine Lowery.
Nearly 10,000 have signed so far. In addition to all the signatures, there's also an application you can download for your smartphone. You go above 15 miles an hour, you're phone goes to sleep. The company Iconosys came up with the app and its using the bus tour to promote it.
"Accidents happen but when you're texting it's not so much an accident, it's all your fault. That split second affects your life, everyone else's. There's no point in taking that risk, a text can wait," says Josh Driver.
Driver says one of his best friends died texting while driving. So he's already stopped.
"If you've got a smart phone you can do the cool stuff like text to speech, that way you can talk and still do it. I'll do that from time to time. I've certainly had close calls when I was younger texting and driving," says Driver.
It's younger drivers stepping up at UALR willing to sign up to put the phone down.
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