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Can technology minimize driver distraction?

Workshop explores how to focus our attention on the road

Geneva, 23 February 2011 – Texting, making calls, and other interaction with in-vehicle information and communication systems while driving is a serious source of driver distraction and increases the risk of traffic accidents.

Standards and design guidelines for these systems and devices, whether portable or fixed in the vehicle, can contribute to decreasing driver distraction, allowing the driver to focus on the road ahead. 

What:

 

Sixth ITU, ISO and IEC Fully Networked Car@Geneva Motor Show

When:

 

2-3 March 2011

Where:

 

Geneva Motor Show, PALEXPO, Geneva

Why:

 

Held during the Geneva International Motor Show, The Fully Networked Car will examine this and other topics linking ICTs and vehicles. Also on the agenda will be electric vehicles and Intelligent Transport Systems that offer the potential for cars to foresee and avoid collisions, navigate the quickest route to their destination, make use of up-to-the-minute traffic reports, identify the nearest available parking slot and minimize their carbon emissions. 

For the sixth year running, international standards organizations ITU, ISO and IEC will host this ground-breaking event, bringing together key players involved in the development of technologies and standards, as well as other major industry representatives.

Who:

 

Experts and executives from the car industry, ICT community, governments, research and development institutes and academia. Journalists and the general public are welcome to attend.


For more information, please contact:

Toby Johnson
Senior Communications Officer
tel +41 22 730 5877
mobile +41 79 249 4868
email toby.johnson@itu.int
Sarah Parkes
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information
tel +41 22 730 6135
mobile +41 79 599 1439
email sarah.parkes@itu.int
 
 

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