Distracted Driving and the Risks of Ride-Hailing Services Like Uber
NY Times
12/21/2014
[…] a growing number of drivers who make their living behind the wheel can’t wait. These are the drivers for Uber and its competitors, including taxi services, who, to make money, must respond nearly instantly to their smartphones, without regard to road conditions or safety. […]
MyFoxLA
Dec 11, 2014
[…] If there are laws against distracted driving, especially texting, wouldn’t it stand to reason that typing into a computer that you have to look down at, reading a computer screen you have to look down at, is also potentially distracting? […] Of the concept of less MDC, more radio, Eric Bruins, who runs the LA County Bicycle Coalition, says “We were deeply affected by Milt’s death so for some good to come out it, a little silver lining if we change the way we do things moving forward that’s good. […]
Los Angeles Daily News
12/6/2014
Concerns over distracted driving have prompted Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials to propose dramatically curbing use of in-car computers. […] The move follows months of deliberation by an internal committee and comes one year after sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Wood fatally struck cyclist Milton Olin Jr. on Mulholland Highway in Calabasas while typing on his in-car computer. […]
Washington Post
December 1, 2014
[…] police discovered that during the blackout, traffic accidents fell by 20 percent in Dubai and 40 percent nationwide. The chief of police and the head of the traffic division both linked the drop to the outage, which cost BlackBerry owners access to email, text messages and internet functions. […]
October 24, 2014
[…] Researchers analyzed data VTTI previously collected for a naturalistic driving study conducted in 2003-2004 for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The age of the data alone has raised questions about the merits of the research. […]
AAA Research
Imperfect Hands-Free Systems Causing Potentially-Unsafe Driver Distractions
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Oct. 7, 2014) – With three out of four drivers believing that hands-free technology is safe to use, Americans may be surprised to learn that these popular new vehicle features may actually increase mental distraction, according to new research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. This research can serve as guidance to manufacturers who increasingly market hands-free systems as safety features. The good news for consumers is that it is possible to design hands-free technologies that are less cognitively distracting, according to the research.
