HOUSTON — April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Traffic expert Jennifer Reyna is breaking down the different types of distractions, and how we can prevent them and save lives. Sending a text ...

The smartphone is a powerful tool, offering a near limitless pool of information, good and bad, at your fingertips. That also makes it a powerful distraction. Some school districts have implemented ...

New measure incorporates external distraction, intrusive thoughts and mind-wandering – and is also linked with an intense state of hyperfocus In a study of different types of distraction involving ...

Eight seconds. That’s how long truck driver Sam Hicks looked down at his phone after getting a text from his girlfriend. That’s all it took for his truck to barrel into the back of a car stopped at a ...

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Potential and actual distractions abound when you occupy the driver's seat. You adjust the volume on the radio, heat, and air conditioning. Large screens in the front display maps, directions, radio ...

In a study of different types of distraction involving more than 1,000 participants, researchers statistically derived a novel measure -- dubbed the 'd factor' -- that could represent a person's ...