Whether you’re the parent of a new driver or just someone who is cautious when they’re on the road, you hope that the other drivers around you are utilizing safe driving practices . But when the rise of new technology meets impatient drivers, you can’t always guarantee that. Insurance companies found a link between speed practices and phone usage. How Was the Study Conducted? Nowadays, many insurance companies offer different apps. These apps “promise cost savings to drivers who opt in and exhibit what the insurer deems safe driving.” According to The Drive , the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) was able to look at the data that these apps provide. To run their study, they focused on trips that were “18 minutes (with at least two minutes on an Interstate highway).” The apps utilize phone sensors and GPS to log most of their data. In order to determine if a driver was speeding, the GPS data was matched to a speed-limit database.…