Men Are More Distracted While Driving
A five-year-old girl who died one Christmas Eve after a 20-year old accused of video chatting on his smartphone plowed into the back of her family’s car on a Texas highway.
Khodrocar - An 18-year-old freshman at Michigan State University who was killed when a 21-year-old drove her car into his at 81 mph.
Their stories are highlighted in the January issue of Consumer Reports as examples of the human toll that distracted driving takes. The article, The Dangers of Driving While Distracted, is a comprehensive look at the rise in distracted driving fatalities and what can be done by everyone – drivers, automakers, tech companies and policymakers -- to prevent it, since there is more than enough blame to go around.
Stories about people are more compelling than numbers but there’s a place for those, too.
So, how distracted are we? According to a national survey Consumer Reports conducted of 622 licensed drivers, 52% admitted to engaging in distracting activities while driving, even though they know it’s wrong.
Of those drivers surveyed, 41% admitted using their hands to send a text, 37% to playing music on a smartphone and 8% to watching videos on their phone while driving.
Their stories are highlighted in the January issue of Consumer Reports as examples of the human toll that distracted driving takes. The article, The Dangers of Driving While Distracted, is a comprehensive look at the rise in distracted driving fatalities and what can be done by everyone – drivers, automakers, tech companies and policymakers -- to prevent it, since there is more than enough blame to go around.
Stories about people are more compelling than numbers but there’s a place for those, too.
So, how distracted are we? According to a national survey Consumer Reports conducted of 622 licensed drivers, 52% admitted to engaging in distracting activities while driving, even though they know it’s wrong.
Of those drivers surveyed, 41% admitted using their hands to send a text, 37% to playing music on a smartphone and 8% to watching videos on their phone while driving.
Source: Forbes
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