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Google also revealed its Install Avg With License Number activation track record for autonomous vehicle safety with impressive results thus far. In the 1.7 million miles avg.com/retail     of the manual and autonomous driving Google has logged in the past six years, there have www.avg.com/activation  only been 11 minor accidents—all of which were caused by other drivers— avg.com/activation and none resulting in injuries www.avg.com/activate.

Google’s Chris Urmson, director of its driverless car program, said in a statement: “…not once was the self-driving car the avg.com/activation Install Avg With License Number activation cause of the accident www.avg.com/activate.”

These early numbers are impressive avg.com/retail    , especially since these driverless cars have been www.avg.com/activate on www.avg.com/activation  the road for 10,000 miles avg.com/activation a week and in some crazy driving conditions Install Avg With License Number activation.

About those accidents, Urmson noted: “Rear-end crashes are the most frequent accidents in America, and often there’s Install Avg With License Number activation little the driver avg.com/activation in front can do to avoid getting hit; we’ve been hit from behind seven www.avg.com/activate times, mainly at traffic avg.com/retail     lights but also on the freeway. We’ve also been side-swiped a couple of times and hit by a car rolling through a stop sign www.avg.com/activation .”

You can see a detailed report by Urmson in his article on Medium.

Though some www.avg.com/activation  continue to question the  avg.com/retail     safety of testing driverless vehicles on public highways, and we have a ways to go before autonomous driving hits prime time… it’s also good to keep Install Avg With License Number activation in perspective www.avg.com/activate the impact of human error (the cause of 94% of accidents) and the risk of distracted drivers avg.com/activation.

Lot’s of people aren’t paying Install Avg With License Number activation attention on our avg.com/retail     roadways, which Google’s driverless cars have experienced www.avg.com/activation .

People are eating www.avg.com/activation , drinking, smoking, talking on cell phones, adjusting their entertainment consoles, navigating Install Avg With License Number activation via digital maps avg.com/activation, or avg.com/retail     you name it.  On any given day, Distracted.gov www.avg.com/activate estimates over 660,000 vehicles are being driven by someone using a hand-held cell phone… And it has been shown that a lot of our distraction has to do with drivers using smartphone technology while behind the wheel.

In fact, AT&T www.avg.com/activation  this week released an alarming new survey that shows that motorists Install Avg With License Number activation have expanded their behind-the-wheel avg.com/activation activities avg.com/retail     from just talking and texting to use of www.avg.com/activate Facebook, Twitter, taking selfies and even videos.

Here are a few of AT&T’s www.avg.com/activation  salient numbers of smartphone avg.com/retail     activities Install Avg With License Number activation undertaken while driving:

  • 70% people engage in smartphone activities while driving
  • 61% text
  • Nearly 40% use social media avg.com/retail    
  • About 30% surf the net avg.com/activation and/or use Facebook
  • 17% snap selfies
  • 14% use Twitter, Integra
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AT&T revealed Install Avg With License Number activation the research along with avg.com/activation its launch of its expanded “It Can Wait” ad campaign, moving www.avg.com/activate its focus from just texting while driving avg.com/retail     to include other smartphone www.avg.com/activation  driving distractions.

Other recent studies indicate that anything that takes your attention away from the road for just two seconds or longer can increase the risk of an accident from four to 24 times…Sending or reading a text takes your eyes www.avg.com/activate off the road for avg.com/retail     5 seconds, according Install Avg With License Number activation to info collected by Distracted.gov. Imagine the avg.com/activation seconds www.avg.com/activation  devoted to viewing real-time social media feeds, or framing a selfie?

People very well should be concerned about bumps in the road for fully autonomous cars, which are a lot more than www.avg.com/activate smartphones on wheels avg.com/retail    . But the usage of smartphone technology inside our autos avg.com/activation poses another and very real safety www.avg.com/activation Install Avg With License Number activation  challenge and far bigger threat today that we need to be more focused on and deal with!

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