One key development which also led to the rise of smartphones was the development of high data rates standards such as High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Evolution Data-Optimized (EV-DO). ... Wireless carriers may have been ready to provide high data rates, but they were ill-prepared to handle the sheer amount and the type of load which has gone beyond the limits of their network capacities. ... Most wireless carriers now bundle a mandatory data plan with smart phones, so the users have to pay a fixed amount irrespective of whether they are able to use that data limit. ... The seriousness of ...

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"It's a driver's attention and processing capacity [that] are often stretched beyond safe limits when someone juggles the complex tasks of negotiating traffic and conversing with another remotely," says Healy. Because of the limits to how much and how well humans can multi-task, especially when those tasks are complex, research shows that using a cell phone while driving can actually be worse than driving drunk. ... What they found was that, "Compared with drivers exceeding the legal blood alcohol limit, users of cell phones – hand-held or hands-free – re...

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In the late 20th Century, mass media could be classified[by whom?]  into eight mass media industries: books, newspapers, magazines, recordings, radio, movies, television and the internet. With the explosion of digital communication technology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the question of what forms of media should be classified as "mass media" has become more prominent. For example, it is controversial whether to include cell phones, video games and computer games (such as MMORPGs) in the definition. In the 2000s, a classification called the "seven mass media" became popular. ...

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The dividing line between economist and other researchers is that economists study to what limit it is possible for the individual to give up money and wealth in order to improve traffic safety, like the relation between the increase in utility from the safety improvement and the increase in costs induced by the undertaken measure. ...

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