Cell phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger and using a hands-free device does not make things better, reports Reuters. The esearchers believe they know why -- passengers act as a second set of eyes, shutting up or sometimes even helping when they see the driver needs to make a maneuver. ... Lee Strayer of the University of Utah and colleagues have found in a serie...

Reuters - Cell phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

iPhone dev team member Planetbeing has successfully reverse engineered Apple’s hardware drivers and has managed to get the Linux kernel to boot on the 2G and 3G iPhone and the 1st gen iPod Touch. This first attempt is limited in functionality with support only for the Framebuffer driver, Serial driver, Serial over USB driver, and

According to the blog.iphone-dev.org website, one of its members has reverse engineered Apple’s hardware drivers and managed to port a version of Linux to both the iPhone and iPod touch. So far, so good, but the downside is that this is really just the first step. There are no Linux drivers yet for the

We knew this day would eventually come, but somehow we're still misting up a little -- Linux has been ported to the iPhone and iPod touch. Dev Team member planetbeing is the mastermind in charge of bringing everyone's favorite open-source OS to Apple's handhelds, and while it's a little rough around the edges (read: no touchscreen drivers, sound, or WiFi / cell radio support), ...

A new software has been made for motorists and drivers to find and ensure that the roads that they will pass through will not be traffic and continue flowing. The traffic monitoring software can be downloaded to your cell phones to transmit and send information about the car’s speed, direction and location. Computers which

HP's second generation ultra portable netbook, the Mini 1000, is said to have a hidden wireless 3G card that can be activated by loading the proper drivers. This is welcomed news to many, but for those in the US, it doesn't mean a thing as North American 3G bands are not supported in the internal card that HP decided to use. jkOnTheRun is speculating that there are several different Mini...

How new iPhone applications help drivers avoid speeding tickets. Article

European researchers are working on a project named I-WAY, an acronym for ‘Intelligent co-operative system in cars for road safety.’ The goal of this project is to develop new automotive safety systems that will alert drivers to potential hazards by using data obtained from in-vehicle sensing systems, the road infrastructure and other road users. With

NMobile and Trapster are two mobile applications that provide up-to-date, detailed maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police traps, speed cameras or red-light cameras. After launching, each application pulls up a map pinpointing the locations of speed traps within driving distance. An audio alert will sound as vehicles approach an area tagged as harboring a speed trap. Both applications rel...