Oops. Our recent update to DMVprep apps, v4.2.1 for most states, introduced a startup problem on iPhone and iPod touch devices running iOS 5.1.x. Basically it crashes on startup and doesn’t get past the splash screen. So we fixed the problem and have sent out updates for all 50 states to Apple. In about a [...]
National High School Safe Driving Tour by Ford
The Ford Motor Company Fund is investing an additional $1 million to expand the company’s comprehensive Ford Driving Skills for Life National Tour. Teens in high schools across 15 states will be taught proper driving skills via free hands-on driving clinics with professional drivers at their own high school parking lots. The goal of the [...]
Tougher Laws and Safety Awareness in Connecticut
Tougher teen driving laws and training requirements, combined with a greater focus on safe driver awareness, appear to be contributing to the reduction of injury accidents and deaths in 16- and 17-year old drivers in the state of Connecticut.
Re-Introduction Bill to Ban Cell Phones, Texting While Driving in Pennsylvania
The new proposal comes one week after Pennsylvania received a failing grade for driving safety legislation from a national safe driving advocacy group. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of consumer, health, safety and insurance groups, ranked Pennsylvania as one of the seven worst performing states when it comes to the adoption of [...]
Move Over Laws Implemented by Majority of States
Move over laws: Nearly every state (49 states) has a law that requires drivers to slow down and, if safe, “move over” when passing an emergency vehicle that is actively working on a roadway. Virginia improved its law in 2010 to include tow trucks and other road service vehicles, increasing the number of states with these more [...]
New Oklahoma Traffic Law
A new Oklahoma traffic regulation which went into effect in November has caught the minds of people. Presently, if you drive on Highway 75 in Oklahoma – just the way you always have – you might be breaking the law and don’t even know it. On November first 2010 Oklahoma state law “11-3-0-9″ went into [...]
New Federal Helmet Law Proposals In Oklahoma
The NTSB has proposed a new regulation mandating that everyone riding a motorcycle in the United States wear a helmet. Proposal due, in part, to an increase in motorcycle deaths in the past decade despite an overall drop in traffic accidents. Accident statistics show that riders are much more likely to survive an accident while [...]
Side-Impact Airbags Not the Only Factor in Crash Protection
A study just released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that the overall crash rating of a vehicle for side impacts have a significant effect on survivability during a driver-side crash. It’s not just whether a vehicle has side-impact airbags that matters, but the overall rating based upon the institute’s crash tests. Other [...]
New Teen Driving Laws in Louisiana
New safer laws for 2011. New laws mandate that all new drivers must have a signed note attesting to the fact they’ve had 50 hours of driving experience — 15 of them at nighttime — before they’re allowed to even take the test to get a drivers license. Also, until drivers turn 17, they’re not [...]
Michigan’s New Driving Restrictions for Teenagers
New restrictions will keep all 16 and some 17 year olds in their first year of independent driving off the road between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The exception is if they’re headed to work or school. H.B. 4493 Byron Major, the Owner of Major Driving School, comments: After a certain time of night, if [...]