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 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.