Safe Driving Distractions
Safe Driving Limiting Distractions
This research was carried out as partial fulfillment towards the Research Methods course at: Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to:
Safe Driving Limiting Distractions The following study is on the safety of driving and the distractions that interfere with driving safety. There are some certain things that can be done to help limit distractions when driving. Cell phones are one of the highest known distractions that tend to cause car accidents. Technologies that are built in to cars today can be the distractions that can affect the way we drive. What are these distractions and what can be done to limit distractions and promote safe driving? …show more content…
(November 2012). Texting while driving on automatic: Considering the frequency-independent side of habit, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 2083-2090, ISSN 0747-5632, 10.1016/j.chb.2012.06.012. Retrieved from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563212001628 The effects of texting while driving can impact the safety of driving but is the frequency-independent components of habit, or automaticity (Campbell, and Bayer 2012). They have experimented with a survey of students to validate Self-Report Habit Index; this study shows that people use their cell phones in the car on habit and tend to be unaware, that it is simply automatic texting when driving. It has become a habit for people to just answer a text or look at their phones when it rings.
Westlake, Elizabeth Jane, and Boyle, Linda Ng. (November 2012). Perceptions of driver
Distraction among teenage drivers, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 644-653, ISSN 1369-8478, 10.1016/j.trf.2012.06.004. Retrieved from: …show more content…
J., Wickens, C. D., & Consalus, K. P. (2006) conducted experiments to show that in-vehicle tasks impact the drivers’ performance and visual scanning, which both affect safe driving. This article is a great source for information on how there are inside and outside distractions that can take place while driving and how the driver may be affected by these distractions. Vision is very important when driving and having both eyes on the road help us scan the road and see everything that is going on. A distraction in the car or out of the car may not take all of our attention but it does stop the ability to scan the road. This is something that needs to be done to be able to drive
This research was carried out as partial fulfillment towards the Research Methods course at: Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to:
Safe Driving Limiting Distractions The following study is on the safety of driving and the distractions that interfere with driving safety. There are some certain things that can be done to help limit distractions when driving. Cell phones are one of the highest known distractions that tend to cause car accidents. Technologies that are built in to cars today can be the distractions that can affect the way we drive. What are these distractions and what can be done to limit distractions and promote safe driving? …show more content…
(November 2012). Texting while driving on automatic: Considering the frequency-independent side of habit, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 2083-2090, ISSN 0747-5632, 10.1016/j.chb.2012.06.012. Retrieved from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563212001628 The effects of texting while driving can impact the safety of driving but is the frequency-independent components of habit, or automaticity (Campbell, and Bayer 2012). They have experimented with a survey of students to validate Self-Report Habit Index; this study shows that people use their cell phones in the car on habit and tend to be unaware, that it is simply automatic texting when driving. It has become a habit for people to just answer a text or look at their phones when it rings.
Westlake, Elizabeth Jane, and Boyle, Linda Ng. (November 2012). Perceptions of driver
Distraction among teenage drivers, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 644-653, ISSN 1369-8478, 10.1016/j.trf.2012.06.004. Retrieved from: …show more content…
J., Wickens, C. D., & Consalus, K. P. (2006) conducted experiments to show that in-vehicle tasks impact the drivers’ performance and visual scanning, which both affect safe driving. This article is a great source for information on how there are inside and outside distractions that can take place while driving and how the driver may be affected by these distractions. Vision is very important when driving and having both eyes on the road help us scan the road and see everything that is going on. A distraction in the car or out of the car may not take all of our attention but it does stop the ability to scan the road. This is something that needs to be done to be able to drive