There are Nobel prizes being awarded to everyone who are great in their own fields. A highlight of 2003 Nobel ceremony was the evening shortest lecture, with people who spoke on automobile safety. Also in 2003, researchers for National Traffic Safety proposed an extensive paper on the same theme. They all wanted to study drivers to know what risks were associated with them using the cell phones.
But such never happened making public aware of hundreds of pages of research and warnings which was due to the exceeding agency’s mission of compiling information. But last week the research was made open to public, as a result of Freedom of Information Act suit by two consumer groups. We are all aware of the dangers of distracted driving, but one need to just imagine how much it would have been if the research comes to a full blown study.
From the statistics researchers revealed out that cell phone use by drivers were responsible for 955 fatalities and around 240,000 accidents.
Based on the assumptions that at any time,6 percent of all drivers are using cell phones, research also shows that drivers talking over the phone are more likely to be involved in a crash. Seeing this some states in United States have taken a step to outlaw cell phone usage while driving which is necessary to quantify as many law enforcement agencies don’t make up the information which is required as a part of incident report. But the point to note is that when we are talking on phone we don’t need to pay much attention to other drivers a part of defensive driving. Our attention & concentration is divided between road and the talk over the phone.
There are the people who are driving at a speed which is different from the rest of everyone else in traffic and drifting them out lanes without signaling of their hands and occupying a phone at one ear.
Nobody would have assumed that they would die out of a car accident, while talking on cell phone or whose vehicle was hit by another driver doing the same thing. So this proves that driving talking on cellphones distracts more users than anyone else leading to more of deaths.
From the statistics researchers revealed out that cell phone use by drivers were responsible for 955 fatalities and around 240,000 accidents.
Based on the assumptions that at any time,6 percent of all drivers are using cell phones, research also shows that drivers talking over the phone are more likely to be involved in a crash. Seeing this some states in United States have taken a step to outlaw cell phone usage while driving which is necessary to quantify as many law enforcement agencies don’t make up the information which is required as a part of incident report. But the point to note is that when we are talking on phone we don’t need to pay much attention to other drivers a part of defensive driving. Our attention & concentration is divided between road and the talk over the phone.
There are the people who are driving at a speed which is different from the rest of everyone else in traffic and drifting them out lanes without signaling of their hands and occupying a phone at one ear.
Nobody would have assumed that they would die out of a car accident, while talking on cell phone or whose vehicle was hit by another driver doing the same thing. So this proves that driving talking on cellphones distracts more users than anyone else leading to more of deaths.
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