RIDE Solutions director, Jeremy Holmes, attended the 7th annual Distracted Driving Summit organized by Drive Smart Virginia at the Hotel Roanoke.
Topics of the summit included the potential impacts of new automated vehicle technology on driver attentiveness, in-vehicle technology the mitigate the impact of cell phone use while driving, and corporate strategies for reducing distracted-driving-related crashes in fleet vehicles.
Roanoke area law-enforcement had a significant presence at the summit, indicating the extent to which distracted driving has surpassed even drunk driving as the most critical safety issue on our highways.
Throughout the many presentations given by insurance industry representatives and transportation researchers across the country there was one clear conclusion: put your phone down when you’re behind the wheel.