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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: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:56PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:56PM (#499382)

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @06:14PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Tuesday April 25 2017, @06:14PM (#499458)

    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

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:39PM (#500054) Homepage Journal

    It only takes a fraction of a second to glance at the speedometer. Not so a text.

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