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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) by mcgrew on Tuesday April 25 2017, @03:27PM (8 children)
Taking your eyes off the road any time you're moving is dangerously idiotic. Stop doing it!
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:56PM (2 children)
So you have a HUD to tell you what your speed is, then? Or would refocusing on the windshield layer technically count as "eyes off the road" anyway.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @06:14PM
I can't drive in rain without corrective lenses for that reason (focusing on the wind-shield). Corrective lenses let me see "though" the rain by focusing on the far distance.
I briefly tried a speedometer HUD app on my phone. Found I probably spent too much time looking at it. That, and without using tape, the chance of breakage was high.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:39PM
It only takes a fraction of a second to glance at the speedometer. Not so a text.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:59PM (4 children)
So you never look in your mirrors?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:37PM (3 children)
A glance when changing lanes. Also an occasional glance at the speedometer. Ever had a deer cross the interstate right in front of you? You might hit it even if you're looking intently.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:52PM (2 children)
Taking your eyes off the road any time you're moving is dangerously idiotic. Stop doing it!
A glance when changing lanes. Also an occasional glance at the speedometer.
So you're a hypocrite?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday April 27 2017, @04:34PM (1 child)
No, I have a brain. Glancing at your mirror before changing lanes is safer than not doing so, as with your speedometer. It's a matter of what's safest, glancing at a mirror or not? With a phone, keeping your eyes on the road is safer for you and everyone else on that road.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday April 27 2017, @06:58PM
Glancing at your mirror before changing lanes is safer than not doing so,
You're supposed to be looking over your shoulder to check your blind spots before changing lanes.