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Recent research and information about cell phone usage and driving
Updated on 2009-11-17
Created on 2009-08-08
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What Clown on a Unicycle? Studying Cellphone Distraction
In this study, most pedestrians who were talking on cell phones failed to notice a guy in a clown suit riding a unicycle.
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How Americans Are Living Dangerously - TIME
Risk-taking behavior: how we indulge in very risky behaviors daily and fear other things that actually have very low risks. "Shoppers still look askance at a bag of spinach for fear of E. coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos." "At the same time, 20% of all adults still smoke; nearly 20% of drivers and more than 30% of backseat passengers don't use seat belts; two-thirds of us are overweight or obese. We dash across the street against the light and build our homes in hurricane-prone areas--and when they're demolished by a storm, we rebuild in the same spot. Sensible calculation of real-world risks is a multidimensional math problem that sometimes seems entirely beyond us. "
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hoppers still look askance at a bag of spinach for fear of E. coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos.
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At the same time, 20% of all adults still smoke; nearly 20% of drivers and more than 30% of backseat passengers don't use seat belts; two-thirds of us are overweight or obese. We dash across the street against the light and build our homes in hurricane-prone areas--and when they're demolished by a storm, we rebuild in the same spot. Sensible calculation of real-world risks is a multidimensional math problem that sometimes seems entirely beyond us.
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Maine outlaws ‘distracted’ driving - The Boston Globe
Maine adds a penalty for causing an accident due to any form of distracted driving, not just cell phone use
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Brain Imaging ShowsWhy Cell Phones Distract Drivers
Changes in fMRI when driver (using simulator) is distracted by conversation - resources diverted from brain areas involved in driving
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When they were listening to a sentence, they were more likely to weave in their lane than when they were driving undisturbed. Furthermore, the fMRI scans showed that listening to someone speak while they were driving reduced by 37 percent the amount of brain activity associated with driving, compared to driving alone,
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subjects could not willfully ignore someone speaking to them; the processing of a spoken message was so automatic that it could not be gated out, and continued to affect the brain activation associated with a second concurrent task. This study shows the dangers of cell phone use by drivers can not be overcome by strategic control of one's attention.
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Driver Distraction in Commercial Vehicle Operations - Cell Phones
See links to Slides and Transcripts that describe the data from a study of 200 car and truck drivers, over about 3 million miles, by Virginia Tech. This is the study that found that texting while driving increases the risk of an accident or near-accident by 23 times over not using a cell phone.
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Cell Phones and Driver Distraction - Includes naturalistic truck driver study
Texting increased risk of collision to 23x normal driving without cell phone use
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Driven to Distraction - Cabbies Stay on Their Phones Despite Ban - Series - NYTimes.com
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And they say that as professional drivers, they are less likely to be distracted.
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Texting Raises Crash Risk 23 Times, Study Finds - Series - NYTimes.com
permalink = http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/technology/28texting.html
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Driven to Distraction - Drivers and Legislators Dismiss Cell Phone Risks
Good review of cell phone risks and reasons for opposing legislation
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Driven to Distraction - Data on Cell Phone Safety withheld
Transportation Department withheld data on cell phone safety for political reasons
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NHTSA Documents on Cell Phone Safety - 2003
Documents of research that went unpublished for political reasons
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Dangerous distraction - Cell phones, etc. APA Monitor, Feb 2009
How cell phones, iPods, & other handheld technologies put users at risk of accidents
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Cell Phones and Driving - more evidence
More evidence that driving while using a cell phone, even hands-free, significantly increases the risk of accidents
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