Distracted driving is something that most individuals seem to do, because there are so many different forms of what distracted driving is. According to SafeState, using cellphones, looking outside the vehicle, individuals in the car, reaching for a device in the vehicle, eating and drinking, adjusting seatbelts or mirrors, moving objects around in the vehicle include …show more content…
But, the authors of Distracted Driving: Examining The Effects of In-Vehicle Task has also placed distracted driving into two types of categories. According to William Horrey, Mary Lesch, and David Melton, the authors of Distracted Driving: Examining The Effects of In-Vehicle Task, distracted driving is placed in the terms of commercial driving and then placed into private driving (Horrey, Lesch, Melton, 2017). Commercial driving is when drivers are required to do in vehicle work. For example, this could be a police officer that has to be on his/her lap tops having to fill out paper work. On the other hand, private driving is when someone chooses to do some form of task in the vehicle. This would be when someone chooses to look at a text message that they have