Listening to music while driving
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Snow, Ice, and Wildlife: The Triple Threat for Winter Drivers in Canada
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Winter Driving Conditions Pose Ongoing Risks for Canadian Motorists and driving risks surge across Canada. Winter driving presents many challenges for Canadian motorists, with nearly 30 per cent of car accidents in Canada occurring on snowy or icy roads. According to reports from the Traffic Accident Information System (TAIS), five per cent of fatal collisions take place during…
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Third annual Hunsberger Memorial Lecture honours psychology professor
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Nov. 3 is this year’s annual Hunsberger Memorial Lecture, which will focus on social relations across the life span: the long and winding road. The lecture will be held on the Waterloo campus between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. in Bricker Academic Building and is intended for psychology students but is also open to the public. This year’s lecture features speaker Toni C. Antonucci, a psychology professor at…
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Laurier graduate creates Houdini app to play music safely while driving
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Former Laurier student Mossab Basir has launched a start-up for a hands-free music streaming application called Houdini. Launched in the beginning of Sept. 2017, Houdini is a new application designed to create safer driving in Canada. Currently, Houdini is available for the Android and will soon become available for iPhone in January of 2018. Houdini was inspired by the rising problem of distracted driving that…
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