{"id":5263,"date":"2011-03-05T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2011-03-05T20:47:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:47:50","slug":"texting-and-surfing-whilst-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5263","title":{"rendered":"Texting and Surfing Whilst Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/cars\/newsandreviews\/overdrive\/2011\/03\/survey_we_cant_stop_browsing_w.html?rss_id=Top+Stories\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Boston Globe reports that 19 percent of drivers<\/a> admit to carrying out internet-related activities whilst driving.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8230;including: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080\">Finding\/reading driving directions <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080\">Reading e-mail <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080\">Composing\/sending e-mail (texting) <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080\">Reading\/scanning sites such as Facebook and Twitter <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080\">Looking up specific information <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Many said they engage in these activities when stopped in traffic or at red lights as well as when driving alone or on long trips on interstates. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article says that 40 percent of Americans own a smartphone &#8211; so that means they must have around 25 million people surfing as they drive!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t think it is only an American problem. It is already acknowledged that people use <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2553\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Facebook and Twitter whilst driving <\/a>here in the UK. I&#8217;ve reported <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2553\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">on more than one<\/a> occasion previously about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2029\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">seeing people texting<\/a> whilst driving. I&#8217;ve pointed out at least three times to pupils&#160;this week alone &#8211; it really is a growing menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe reports that 19 percent of drivers admit to carrying out internet-related activities whilst driving. &#8230;including: Finding\/reading driving directions Reading e-mail Composing\/sending e-mail (texting) Reading\/scanning sites such as Facebook and Twitter Looking up specific information Many said they engage in these activities when stopped in traffic or at red lights as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}