Drive, Don’t Tweet!
According to a study made by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, adults are as prone to text while driving as teens are. The test was conducted in May and states that 27% of the adult respondents said that they text while they drive, while ONLY 26% of the teens driving a car (that’s a catastrophe in the first place) use to text behind the wheel. “Even those of us who make a conscious choice to put down our cellphones while driving may still be at risk when we are passengers simply sharing the road with other distracted drivers,” Pew Senior Research Specialist Mary Madden said.
We are so caught up in texting while driving that 16% of people (that’s one in six) actually hit something while driving ( a little bit of explanation about the “something” would have been nice though). The results of the Pew study are the opposite of another survey held in February by the Insurance Institutes of Highway Safety. They claim that the highest rate of texting while driving is found in the 18-33 age range and the incidences decline with age.
There are, of course, laws that ban the usage of cell phones while driving, but they have no effect on textaholic drivers, thinks Russ Rader, a spokesperson for the Insurance Institutes of Highway Safety. In the end, it seems that technology will solve this problem too (considering that it caused it in the first place) because it is possible to block the cell phone signal while driving. More, technology will help deal with all forms of distracted driving, as car manufactures are increasingly interested in collision warning systems, solutions that will automatically stop the car if an accident seems imminent and sensors that can determine when the driver falls asleep.
Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Texting-While-Driving-Everyones-Doing-it-70250.html
