Title: Further Exploration of “Distracted Driving 2009”
Abstract: Driver distraction is an important part of the efforts to further enhance highway safety. As such, it is critical to understand the nature and magnitude of the occurrences of driver distraction. This understanding can then be used to prioritize and allocate limited resources such as law enforcement , to guide the development of technology that can help enhance driving safety , and to educate the driving public with accurate information. Toward this end, an analysis of the 995 cell-phone-related fatalities cited in NHTSA's 2010 Research Note entitled Distracted Driving 2009” was conducted to gain further insight into the distracted driving cases attributed to cell phones. The results show a pattern that is far from clearly implicating cell phone use as the sole or even primary contributing factor to the fatal crash in most instances. These data showed that cell phone use is unlikely to be the sole or even the primary factor contributing to a crash. For those cases in which cell phone use may be a primary contributing factor, the latest naturalistic driving research strongly indicates it is visual-manual aspects of cell phone use or looking away from the road that is the principal safety hazard, not cognitive distraction.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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