A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more often than police documented it.

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    11 hours ago

    True, but to be fair a good number of lights seem to be timed ridiculously - presumably to allow cops to hand out more tickets.