Driving

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Garbage in the car can make a mom crazy, especially if she spends a portion of her day shuttling the kiddos. Some people chalk it up to having children, but many parents had cluttered vehicles before babies. Whether it's snack wrappers, forgotten toys, or spare clothes, here are five tips to eliminate the moving mess!

• One-toy rule. Lil ones love to bring a toy box worth of goodies with them wherever they go, but few kiddos ever get to playing with all their loot, so limit them to one belonging. And make sure they exit the vehicle with it.
• Pay the meter, toss the trash. Food cartons, water bottles, and juice boxes can add up — especially when kids need to snack between activities. To prevent backseat buildup, toss the trash each time you park or pay a meter. Turn it into a game for your youngsters by delegating the task to one of them.
• Save the paper and plastic. Find a spot in the trunk or glove compartment and start a bag arsenal. Instead of tossing the sacks you get at the drug or grocery store, keep a few to use as trash receptacles or in an emergency.
• Assigned seating. Most families have one messy kid— the child who has mysteriously sticky hands or empties his sandy sneakers on the car mats — so stick to assigned seats that hold each kid responsible for his or her space.
• Weekly wipe down. Keep your vehicle tidy using wet wipes and a hand vac to clean spills and hard to reach crumbs at least once a week and make sure to enlist your children in the routine. When they find out how much time and energy goes into cleaning up soiled messes, they are less likely to make another one!

Hold on one second, the kids are fighting in the backseat. Modern technology keeps us connected...even in the car. Our attachment to cell phones and PDAs means that we are never out of touch and aren't always 100 percent focused while driving! Busy moms who rarely have a minute to call back a friend or shoot an email often use the time they spend in the car to cross some items off of their to-do lists. Using hands-free devices that are required by law in seven states, make many mamas believe they are acting in a safe, and legal, manner.

What most drivers don't realize is that it is not just the act of holding a phone that makes talking while driving dangerous, but the cognitive distraction that is experienced while holding the conversation. An estimated 28 percent of all accidents involve a driver who was talking or texting while on the road. According to FocusDriven, a new organization hoping to convince drivers to put their cell phones away while driving, when people are engaged in a mobile conversation, their brains are not wholly focused on the road, and unlike a conversation with a passenger in the car, there are no additional eyes watching traffic.

Oprah Winfrey recently challenged her viewers to create No Phone Zones in their cars. Would you be willing to make the commitment and safeguard your precious cargo?

Here in California, it's not only against the law to talk on your cell phone while driving, but it's also illegal to text while driving. I've already told you about neat gizmos like Key 2 Safe and BlackBerry apps like ZoomSafer that prevent you from being able to make calls while behind the wheel. But, what about those instances where you're expecting an important text or email on your BlackBerry, but you can't keep pulling over to check them?

A BlackBerry app called DriveSafe.ly will actually read your incoming text messages and emails to you, thanks to its text to speech functionality which is powered by iSpeech.org. And you can even create customizable auto-responses to your message! You can download DriveSafe.ly for free from the BlackBerry App World.

A few months ago, I told you about a new program available for pre-order that turns off your cell phones once the key is in your car's ignition.

Now, there's another similar service to keep you safe and free from distraction while driving. ZoomSafer is a free service that uses your phone's GPS system to monitor your driving speed and prevent you from placing or receiving calls or texts when traveling over 10 miles per hour. The application is programmable to allow exceptions, like calls from certain important numbers. And an added bonus for parents or employers who want to monitor the driving habits of kids or employees on the job: if the system is overridden and a call is placed or text message sent, the account administrator receives an automatically-generated email alerting them to the phone's usage.

Right now, the service is only available for BlackBerrys, but will work with select Windows and Android phones early next year. I think this kind of service is a good idea to prevent distractions, especially for people without the willpower to simply ignore the phone while behind the wheel.