Healy and Brewster dream of people someday driving a fuel-cell car up to an Enernoc meter during peak demand and pumping electricity back into the grid.
The most attractive services will probably be those that combine voice and text in a clever way: users could, for example, ask for an address and get driving directions on their cell phone display.
Tech analysts say there are two trends driving the boom: Cell phones have finally come way down in price, making them widely available to the masses, and they will soon become much more versatile, offering a host of digital services.
The group said using a cell phone while driving quadruples your risk of crashing.
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The federal government last month banned interstate truck and bus drivers from using cell phones while driving.
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So far, nine states and the District of Columbia prohibit hand-held cell phones while driving, Teigen said.
CNN: Call for car-phone ban likely to meet busy signal in states
On June 25th, New York's state Assembly passed a bill prohibiting motorists from using hand-held cell telephones while driving.
Among the other findings, nearly 25% of teens still said they don't see talking on a cell phone while driving as unacceptable.
In Alaska, state Rep. Mike Doogan, a Democrat, this year proposed legislation that would ban using a cell phone when driving, but the measure died, he said.
CNN: Call for car-phone ban likely to meet busy signal in states
Thirty states and the District of Columbia prohibit novice drivers and teenagers from using cell phones while driving, but no state has imposed such a ban on all drivers, Teigen said.
CNN: Call for car-phone ban likely to meet busy signal in states
No surprise, then, that more than half of teens (54 percent) say they use a hand-held cell phone while driving, similar to the 61 percent of parents who say they do so.
Car Connection even works with an Android or Blackberry app that restricts cell phone use while driving.
Saturation is driving this more than cannibalization from the cell phone.
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Usually the scattering of energy is considered a nuisance -- whether driving in fog or poor reception from a cell phone tower -- and most techniques either try to avoid it (by turning on fog lights) or reduce the impact of scattering (by selecting energy for the phone only from direct paths).
The National Transportation Safety Board voted 5-0 to recommend that states ban all driver use of cell phones and other portable electronic device while driving except for emergencies.
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The fuel cell and battery powered hybrid taxi provides a 250 mile driving range with rapid refuelling, all within the confines of the body of a conventional London taxi.
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And parents who talk on cell phones, send texts or eat and drink while driving have teenagers who are more likely to do the same, according to preliminary findings of a new safety study by Toyota Motor and the University of Michigan.
Enough safe driving apps exist already that there seems little need for one from any cell phone carrier.
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Noel Young, of Metal Bridge, near Carlisle, was serving a sentence for causing death by dangerous driving when he ran the drugs operation using three mobile phones from his cell.
One cell phone industry group supports states' ban on texting while driving -- a law enacted in 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to the National Council of State Legislatures.
CNN: Call for car-phone ban likely to meet busy signal in states
Toyota has always believed that fuel cell technology is the long-term answer for zero emissions driving, so the company pulling back from a tepid market should not be viewed as a surprise.
He was able to get in touch with his wife and son and daughter while in the car driving to his Maryland home, but it was difficult because of all the cell-phone activity.
The father-of-two, whose last brush with the law was when he was 19 after he was convicted of drink-driving, was arrested on suspicion of affray and had to spend 48 hours in a police cell.
They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones.
It started with being charged with driving under the influence last year after she hit a police car when she was talking on her cell phone.
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My first cell phone was a gigantic Motorola bag phone, which I got when I turned 16 and started driving.
Hybrids, fuel cell vehicles, they're all still a small drop in the bucket compared to the overall driving that we do in the United States, which is with petroleum products.
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