Any studies on eating while driving? Reading? I'm not minimizing the cell phone part, but I wonder how much has been studied about other areas. I see women weekly putting makeup on, saw a guy once eating a bowl of cereal.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:08 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What if the crash occurs while the driver is reading the fine-print legal > > notice? > > Just about every state either had or still have laws on the books > the forbid the operation of a television anywhere in the front seat > area of a car. A careful parsing of the language obviously says that > a computer screen of any sort is not a television, not even when it is > displaying videos or even television programs. Most states have > failed, either through oversight or intent, to update those older laws > to encompass other types of display devices, including cell phone > displays. Were states to update those laws, a lot of the distractions > that kill and maim an awful lot of people would be explicitly > forbidden. > > The latest stat I saw on deaths caused by drivers distracted by > using a cell phone was for 2009 and the figure was right at 2,600 on > United States roadways with 570,000 injuries and with a total of 1.5 > million crashes. Those figures were for deaths, injuries and crashes > proven to be attributable to cell phone distractions. Who knows how > many others there were wherein cell phone use could not be proven to > have been a cause. A Harvard study showed that cell phone use tends > to degrade driver performance about the same as having a 0.8 blood > alcohol level, i.e., in most jurisdictions, driving drunk. > > Steve > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
