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Students Against Distracted Driving Haley WesterkampAlison Brokaw Madeline WrightTevien Pinckney
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What is Distracted Driving? The practice of operating a motor vehicle while engaged in another activity Examples Cell Phone Eating Drinking GPS Etc.
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4 Types of Distractions Visual Distractions Manual Distractions Cognitive Distractions Audio Distractions
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Visual Distraction When your eyes are taken off the road while driving for any reason
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Manual Distractions When your hands are taken off the wheel while driving for any reason
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Cognitive Distraction When your brain activity is being used for something else other than driving
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Audio Distraction When any sound takes attention away from the road while driving for any reason
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Our Culture Americans place too much emphasis on multitasking Americans also overestimate their ability to multitask Cell Phone Statistics Cell Phone Statistics
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American Teenage Trends Drivers in their 20’s make up 27% of the distracted drivers in fatal crashes. At any given moment, about 660,000 drivers are using an electronic device while driving.
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American Teenage Trends 25% of teens respond to a text message once or more every time they drive. 20% of teens and 10% of parents, admit to having extended, multi-message text conversations while driving.
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Laws on Distracted Driving Texting and Driving is prohibited in 44 states Not Banned: Arizona, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas Hand-Held Cell Phone use is prohibited in 14 states No state bans all cell-phone use while driving Novice drivers School bus drivers
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Laws on Distracted Driving Bans are only effective for around four months Hand-held bans are more effective for adults Primary enforcement laws are more effective Bans have not significantly reduced teen use of mobile devices
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Hands-Held vs. Hands-Free Hands-held devices Trending toward being banned Stigma of being more dangerous than Hands-Free Hands-free No state has a ban on Hands-Free Companies and government officials can ban workers from using Hands-Free
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New York Times Distracted Driving Simulator New York TImes Guaging Your Distraction
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Multitasking Not Possible Brain can only completely focus on one task at a time Takes time to switch attention between tasks Select Process Encode Store Retrieve Execute
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Primary VS. Secondary Tasks Primary Task – the task requiring your full attention Pot on the front burner Secondary Task – the concurrent task requiring equal attention Pot on the back burner You decide which is most important
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Pie chart Driving Texting Make-up Music GPS Eating Talking Other
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Reaction Times Conversations slow your reflexes cognitively because your mind is switching its primary focus Your brain processes danger at a slower rate 76% of accidents involving a cell phone the conversation was only 2 minutes or less
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Video Distracted Driving Video
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References http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/Distracte d_Driving/Documents/Cognitive%20Distra ction%20White%20Paper.pdf http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/Distracte d_Driving/Documents/Cognitive%20Distra ction%20White%20Paper.pdf http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/ cellphone_laws.html http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/ cellphone_laws.html http://enddd.org/research-stats/#r9 http://enddd.org/research-stats/#r9 http://www.distraction.gov/content/get- the-facts/facts-and-statistics.html http://www.distraction.gov/content/get- the-facts/facts-and-statistics.html http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJ M199702133360701 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJ M199702133360701
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