Dangers of cell-phone use while driving are exhibited in this article. Furthermore, participants completed three driving conditions; driving while conversing, driving while talking on a hands-free device, and driving while the other partner could see a video of both the road and the drivers face. Testing was also done to see if visual information increased awareness and reduced the negative effects accompanied by cell-phone distraction. The authors sufficiently review other research based on this topic. They used a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to find that when North Carolina completely banned cell-phone use, teens’ use of cellphone did not decrease. The Institute believed that drivers underestimated the degree of which
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The independent variable, driving, is further broken down into three conditions: driving while conversing, driving while talking on a hands-free device, and driving while the other partner can see both the road and the driver. The participants included twenty-four pairs of friends, who are young adults, and had a valid license with a driving experience of 2 or more years. Also all participants had normal or corrected visual activity and normal color vision. These participants were recruited from the Urbana-Champaign community. The institutional review board at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign approved this study and had all twenty-four participants provide written consent. One thing the authors do not provide us with is the gender of these …show more content…
Thousands of drivers die each year due to cell phone related distractions. Young adults are more likely to text and drive than adults. I think people tend to overestimate their ability to multitask in the car. Unfortunately, it is not only your own life that you are putting at risk but also the lives of other drivers and passengers around you. Although, it is better to concentrate on the road with zero distractions the results prove that having a passenger leads to more traffic related references, correct exits taken, and less
The independent variable, driving, is further broken down into three conditions: driving while conversing, driving while talking on a hands-free device, and driving while the other partner can see both the road and the driver. The participants included twenty-four pairs of friends, who are young adults, and had a valid license with a driving experience of 2 or more years. Also all participants had normal or corrected visual activity and normal color vision. These participants were recruited from the Urbana-Champaign community. The institutional review board at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign approved this study and had all twenty-four participants provide written consent. One thing the authors do not provide us with is the gender of these …show more content…
Thousands of drivers die each year due to cell phone related distractions. Young adults are more likely to text and drive than adults. I think people tend to overestimate their ability to multitask in the car. Unfortunately, it is not only your own life that you are putting at risk but also the lives of other drivers and passengers around you. Although, it is better to concentrate on the road with zero distractions the results prove that having a passenger leads to more traffic related references, correct exits taken, and less