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People living in Palm Beach County have a new way to reach 911 in an emergency: by text message. Anyone in the county with a cell phone can send a text...

St. Johns County has joined a growing number of area counties offering the ability to text 911 in an emergency. Clay and Alachua counties also offer the...

Sarasota County has become among the first counties in Florida to be able to accept text to 911 emergency messages. But Emergency Operations Manager...

Systems that turn a driver's speech into text are the most distracting. Drivers in a University of Utah test experienced a kind of inattention blindness that mean they sometimes overlooked potential hazards.

Nearly 70 percent of American drivers say they talked on their cell phones while driving at least once in the previous month, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And about a third admitted to reading or sending texts or emails while driving.