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But it's unclear whether hands-free laws alone will make the roads safer. Numerous studies have concluded that any type of cell phone use - hands-free or not - can distract a driver enough to increase the likelihood of an accident. According to research conducted by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist...
Since 1982, the NTSB has urged the FAA to order airlines to install better black boxes [the flight-data recorders that can provide clues to the cause of an accident]. All the NTSB wanted was black boxes that can continue recording for fractions of a second beyond a catastrophic explosion...
Over the next years, I learned firsthand that, sadly, withholding information was routine for the FAA. Fortunately, the Boeing Co. made similar statistics public in a study that said, "If, as we expect, air traffic is to double in the 1990s, we need to reduce by half our accident rate...
It would take the deaths of more than a hundred people aboard a ValuJet plane that burst into flames, smashed into the Florida Everglades and sank in a murky swamp to expose chronic weaknesses in the FAA. The 110 souls on that flight probably never knew what caused the fire...
In an agitated, defensive voice, Pena said an FAA report proved that discount airlines were as safe as the major carriers. But Pena had to know this simply wasn't true. He was protecting an airline just the way government officials had for decades. In fact, the FAA had an...