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BlackOutPro Promotes Safety BlackOutPro provides companies and their employees a means to remove in-cab visual distractions and practice attentive driving when using laptops in company vehicles. Using BlackOutPro with a company’s laptop communications device increases employee productivity, keeps the company driver, pedestrians, and others motorists safer in traffic and on the open road, and reduces a company’s liability costs associated with traffic accidents. The following references are some examples that illustrate the compliance value offered by using BlackOutPro in conjunction with your in-vehicle laptop computers.
States – http://www.ncsl.org/programs/esnr/cellphoneA.htm a list of a few bills that are active today promoting efforts to remove distractions while driving
National Conference of State Legislatures - NCSL's Driver Focus and Technology Legislative Tracking Database National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration International Symposium on Transportation Recorders http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/studies/acns/champion.htm The economic costs of crash injuries incurred each year amount to an estimated $100 billion in current dollars. Including compensation values for intangibles such as pain & suffering, the comprehensive costs of crash injuries incurred each year amount to about $350 billion [7]. The human costs to individuals and families of the deaths, injuries, and disabilities incurred in crashes, each year, are unmeasured tragic losses. http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/wireless/ Strategies for Reducing Driver Distraction from In-Vehicle Telematics Devices – A Discussion Document, TP 14133 E, April 2003 |
