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 The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:37PM (1 child)
The radio doesn't demand your attention like a conversation does; you don't have to spare attention from driving to think of how you're going to reply.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday April 27 2017, @07:22AM
I agree with TMB over the phone. I normally have mine OFF when I am driving. It takes my full undivided attention to properly control my van. Even then, I am not completely error-free.
Its not the static things along the road that cause me the most problems, rather it is other people who do the darndest things, like opening car doors right in front of me, or motorcyclists trying to lane-split when I only have inches between me and other traffic.
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