Distracted Driving Research
The use of cell phones has spread like a wildfire over the past 10 years. It has become an everyday necessity, and many people depend on them to carry out daily operations. Unfortunately, many of these daily operations occur while the individual is driving. Failed attempts to make operating a cell phone behind the wheel hands-free has just created more distractions. As a result, many accidents have taken place in the last ten years due to the use of cellular phones while on the road.
First, with today's society cell phones are as familiar as our keys and wallet are to us. We leave the house our cell phones go with us. We relay on them for everything from simple communication to getting from point a to point b. We have become so dependent and …show more content…
For someone to be multitasking between driving and looking at their phone to change a song that is a distracted driver (“Policy statement and compiled FAQs on distracted driving,” n.d.). In 2014, 3,179 people were killed, and 431,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers (“Distracted driving: Facts and statistics,” n.d.). The reality is that people being distracted is not just because of texting while driving. According to a survey AT&T conducted, a huge shocking 70% of people behind the wheel of a car was found using their phones, and while texting and emailing was the most popular task at 61%. The huge shocker to me was that 17% of distracted drivers were found taking a selfie while driving (Chang, …show more content…
The Government has made attempts to try to prevent these distractions from happening. Hands-free was created to be a safer alternative to holding a phone while driving. While in theory this was a safer route, but over 30 studies show that in reality hands-free is no safer than holding the phone itself. Just because your hands are remaining on the wheel does not mean your mind is focus on driving (Mohn, 2014). Since the use for hands-free really is not safer or because most people choose not to use it. We should just overall ban the use of cell phones to all drivers, because as of March, 2016, there were no states that have bans on all cell phone use of all drivers, but 37 states and D.C. have ban all cell phone use for novice or teen drivers (Teigen,
First, with today's society cell phones are as familiar as our keys and wallet are to us. We leave the house our cell phones go with us. We relay on them for everything from simple communication to getting from point a to point b. We have become so dependent and …show more content…
For someone to be multitasking between driving and looking at their phone to change a song that is a distracted driver (“Policy statement and compiled FAQs on distracted driving,” n.d.). In 2014, 3,179 people were killed, and 431,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers (“Distracted driving: Facts and statistics,” n.d.). The reality is that people being distracted is not just because of texting while driving. According to a survey AT&T conducted, a huge shocking 70% of people behind the wheel of a car was found using their phones, and while texting and emailing was the most popular task at 61%. The huge shocker to me was that 17% of distracted drivers were found taking a selfie while driving (Chang, …show more content…
The Government has made attempts to try to prevent these distractions from happening. Hands-free was created to be a safer alternative to holding a phone while driving. While in theory this was a safer route, but over 30 studies show that in reality hands-free is no safer than holding the phone itself. Just because your hands are remaining on the wheel does not mean your mind is focus on driving (Mohn, 2014). Since the use for hands-free really is not safer or because most people choose not to use it. We should just overall ban the use of cell phones to all drivers, because as of March, 2016, there were no states that have bans on all cell phone use of all drivers, but 37 states and D.C. have ban all cell phone use for novice or teen drivers (Teigen,