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Technology

BYU student team creates safe driving app

By Michaela Proctor
February 10, 2017 12:00 AM
The Kudoz team, left to right: Morgen Glessing, Devin Horning, Jared Packard and Ryan Jensen have developed an app for safe driving. (Michaela Proctor)
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Local

New study explores risks of distracted driving, including driving while emotional

By Katie Rhoton
May 06, 2016 12:00 AM
Driving while under the influence is dangerous. So is driving when emotional.
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Local

Provo traffic accidents decreasing but distracted driving still a problem

By Kelsie Matheson
December 16, 2015 12:00 AM
This image from video, taken Oct. 1, 2015, shows Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Senior Research Engineer David Aylor in the drivers seat with an electronic display on the dashboard at the IIHS Vehicle Research Center in Ruckersville, Va. American car buyers are baffled by a blizzard of new safety technologies in vehicles that vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, from model to model, and from one options package to another. (AP Photo/Dan Huff)
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Healthy Living

Texting, driving and you

By Felix Lara
July 10, 2015 12:00 AM
Texting and driving causes 1.6 million car crashes per year according to the United States Department of Transportation. Studies on texting and driving numbers can be low due to dishonesty on the part of survey-takers. (Universe Archives)
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Local

Provo Police: How to Prepare for the boys in blue

By Beverly Storrs
March 08, 2012 12:00 AM
When many students leave their homes and come to Provo they not only get a new lifestyle, they get a new set of laws and regulations.
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Local

Blog: A threat to the roads

By Tessa Farnsworth
February 07, 2012 12:00 AM
The Utah State Senate has passed a bill which would ban teenagers ages 16 and 17 from talking on their cell phones while driving. The bill passed 19-9 on Tuesday and will now move on to the house. Utah tried to pass similar laws in past years, which passed in the Senate but not the House. In 2009, Utah joined 34 others states and banned texting while driving. Here in Utah, however, they treat cell phone use as part of the problem of distracted driving. Thus, it is only an offense if the driver is also committing some other type of violation.
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