Put Everything on Hold

Here’s a stat from the National Safety Council that probably won’t surprise you. Twenty-six percent of car crashes are tied to cellphone use. And here’s a stat that might surprise you. Just five percent of crashes involve texting.

+ Texting while walking can be dangerous as well. But a patent application from Apple could save you via transparent texting: “a feature that would continuously capture and display video images of the environment ahead of you.” So then you’d only have to look up from your phone, well, never.