Why Silicon Valley wants you to text and drive
- Written by Jack Barkenbus, Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy & Environment, Vanderbilt University
Tech companies want to reduce conflict between texting and driving.Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock.comAs self-driving cars come closer to being common on American roads, much of the rhetoric promoting them has to do with safety. About 40,000 people die on U.S. roads every year, and driver errors are linked to more than 90 percent of crashes. But many...