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from the just-project-camera-views-onto-the-phone dept.
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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by DavePolaschek on Tuesday April 25 2017, @12:35PM (1 child)
Which is interesting, because while I see an awful lot of people staring at their phones while on the roads, I also see people reading books, applying mascara and eye-liner, etc. I guess the 2/3 of the states where people are more distracted than here must be real Death Race 2000 zones.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @12:37PM
Competent people are capable of performing complex tasks successfully. [soylentnews.org]
Minnesotans have a large Scandinavian and German population, right? Well, those are some of the smartest people on the planet.