Insurance News - Thursday, August 15, 2013

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Thursday, August 15, 2013:

• There are 41 U.S. states with distracted driving laws on the books. So is here adequate enforcement and are the laws making a difference?
• A study by JAMA Pediatrics has evaluated teens with ADHD who have also experienced distracted driving and it shows that they are even a greater driving risk. 
• The cost of driving is delaying teens in getting licensed. Since they tend to be high risk drivers does that work out to be a good think or bad thing?
• A Metro Vancouver project is monitoring private cellphones to track traffic jams using anonymous GPS data.
• In St. Petersburg, Florida, 60% of the city’s car thefts happened because the victims had left their keys inside.
• Data monitoring is saving some people money on their auto insurance, yet some people will end up paying more.  But didn't we always know this would happen?