{"id":745518,"date":"2013-04-08T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=423455"},"modified":"2013-04-08T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:22:16","slug":"number-of-teens-texting-while-driving-has-doubled-since-2010-despite-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745518","title":{"rendered":"Number of teens texting while driving has doubled since 2010 despite warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/08\/teenagers-texting-while-driving-survey-423455\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"475\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/driving_with_a_phone.jpg?w=475&#038;h=320&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=475%2C320\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Teenagers-Text-While-Driving\" title=\"Driving Man\" \/><\/a><\/center>Despite increased efforts by companies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/att\">AT&amp;T<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>) and others to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/09\/24\/rode-dog-app-wins-20000-dollar-att-prize\/\">prevent teenagers from texting while driving<\/a>, a new statistic showed that the problem has become an epidemic. The National Highway Traffic Safety Association revealed that the number of teens who use a mobile device while driving has doubled since 2010 to two out of every five, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/04\/laws-against-cell-phone-use-while-driving-cant-curb-teen-texters\/\"><em>ArsTechnica<\/em> reported<\/a>. The agency also found that at any given time there are more than 600,000 drivers using a cell phone or some other electronic device, while almost half, or 48.6%, of all drivers in the U.S. have admitted to answering incoming phone calls, and one in four has admitted to placing a call. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/08\/teenagers-texting-while-driving-survey-423455\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/SngAoE4WiUs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite increased efforts by companies such as AT&amp;T (T) and others to prevent teenagers from texting while driving, a new statistic showed that the problem has become an epidemic. The National Highway Traffic Safety Association revealed that the number of teens who use a mobile device while driving has doubled since 2010 to two out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37Wu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}