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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: 1) by fyngyrz on Tuesday April 25 2017, @01:47PM
I'm a ham. I have quite an array of radios on the dash. But they're never on when I'm driving, not even just to receive. I fool with them parked out in the country (where there is zero interference) and when parked in parking lots, waiting for my SO to find her way out of the various big box stores. Which has been known to take a while. ⏳
I keep a guitar in the vehicle too; again, it's a parking-lot indulgence.
You can load up a vehicle with all manner of cool fun and still not be stupid.