US: NHTSA issues first distracted driver guidelines for comment
Author: Graeme Roberts | 17 February 2012
Growing concern over 'distracted drivers' in the US has prompted Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to reveal the first-ever federally proposed guidelines to encourage automobile manufacturers to limit the distraction risk for in-vehicle electronic devices. The proposed voluntary guidelines would apply to communications, entertainment, information gathering and navigation devices or functions that are not required to safely operate the vehicle.
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