oral review for the week of february 25 2013

News Update

• Correction: Drunken Driving-Zero Deaths story
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 17 about a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation on a blood alcohol threshold for drivers, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the definition of a drink. The standard definition of a drink is 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine and 1.5 ounces of 80-proof alcohol.
• Millennials Are Driving Less, but What Happens as They Get Older?
  It is unquestionably true that Americans are driving less today than we did just a few years ago. Sometime around 2004, our addiction to driving – expressed on a graph in the decades-long steep expansion of “vehicle miles traveled” – took a turn in the opposite direction. Per capita, we began to drive fewer miles each year than we had the year before. As the U.S. population has continued to grow ...
• Tougher drunken driving threshold recommended
  States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half— from .08 blood alcohol level to .05_matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a federal ...
• Teen texting at the wheel tied to more driving risks
  By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers who text while driving are also more likely to engage in other risky activities, such as riding with an intoxicated driver or not wearing a seatbelt, a new study suggests. Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found four in every nine high school students had sent or received texts while driving in the ...
• Progress sought on drunken driving deaths
  Drunken driving claims the lives of more than a third of the people killed each year on U.S highways, a level of carnage that that has remained stubbornly consistent for the past decade and a half. The ...