McGehee Published in Huffington Post

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Human Factors and Vehicle Safety Director, Dan McGehee's article, "Driving Young, Driving Distracted" was published on the Huffington Post on November 25.  The popular website, (sometimes abbreviated Huff Post or HuffPo) is an American online news aggregator and blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart, and Jonah Peretti, featuring columnists.  The site offers news, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news.

McGehee's article emphasizes that teen drivers are especially susceptible to distractions while driving, because of a combination of inexperience, overconfidence, poor judgement, and high susceptibility to distraction and peer pressure.  To read the full article, click here.

The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, as a liberal/left commentary outlet and alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report.  It became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize. In July 2012, The Huffington Post was ranked #1 on the 15 Most Popular Political Sites list by eBizMBA Rank, which bases its list on each site's Alexa Global Traffic Rank and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast.