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Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-project-camera-views-onto-the-phone dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Zendrive makes technology that monitors how people are driving, so they took the data from 3 million drivers taking 570 million trips over 5.6 billion miles. They found that drivers used their phones for an average of three and a half minutes in 88 out of a hundred trips. From their study:

Everyday, that’s the equivalent of people behind the wheel talking or texting on 5.6-million car rides from our sample alone. When extrapolated for the entire U.S. driving population, the number goes up to roughly 600-million distracted trips a day….This finding is frightening, especially when you consider that a 2-second distraction is long enough to increase your likelihood of crashing by over 20-times. In other words, that’s equivalent to 105 opportunities an hour that you could nearly kill yourself and/or others.

One can download PDFs of the full report and the executive summary.

So that explains the steady stream of accidents despite the prevalence of anti-lock brakes, cameras, and accident avoidance features in passenger vehicles.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:30PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:30PM (#499602)

    Traffic deaths that are related to alcohol in some way are 31% of traffic-related deaths. Not only are there tons of people driving around under the influence of alcohol, but they don't seem to be a very big problem in the grand scheme. What are those other 69% of doing?!

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:59PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:59PM (#500649)

    they don't seem to be a very big problem in the grand scheme

    A third of traffic deaths, and you're saying it's not very big? Really?

    I'm constantly impressed by the reliability of these two heuristics:

    • If the comment is mindlessly idiotic, you'll probably find it was posted by an AC
    • If you find a comment posted by an AC, it's probably mindlessly idiotic