Apr 16
Check out this vintage distracted driving video from the National Safety Council. What a gem!
As the National Safety Council celebrates 100 Years of Safety, check out this vintage NSC film from 1953! It’s one of the very first to discuss driver distractions and the importance of the brain while driving! Download materials and join NSC in spreading awareness about cell phone distracted driving.
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Mar 14
When I started working on this issue in 2009, I told my family that I wasn’t going to use my cell phone while driving any longer – the data and the personal stories were just too much to ignore. I asked my children and my husband to help hold me accountable. I asked my parents …
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Feb 09
What is cognitive distraction? David Teater, Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives at the National Safety Council answers the question.
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Feb 08
I recently read an article on the EHS Today website titled, “Multitasking and Distracted Driving: You Are Not the Exception.” In it, David Sanbonmatsu, Ph.D., and David Strayer, Ph.D., both psychology professors from the University of Utah, explain their research about multitasking and how we may think we are good at multitasking, the truth is we aren’t.
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.focusdriven.org/multitasking-drivers/
Jul 31
Have you talked to your teens about the dangers of cell phone distracted driving? Did they ask why you can use your cell phone and they can’t? They are right to push back. No parent wants to lose a child, and no child wants to lose a parent. Cell phone use – handheld or hands-free …
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Jul 24
I hear it a lot. “I can use my cell phone while driving. I’m a safe driver.” The truth is only 2 percent of people are considered ‘supertaskers’ – people who are really good at being able to multitask. These people typically become military pilots. The other 98 percent of us are not good multitaskers. …
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Apr 12
Guest blogger: Dave Teater On Jan. 19, 2004, a cell phone distracted driver changed my family forever. As my wife was driving my son to an after school activity, a driver distracted by her cell phone conversation ran a red light and slammed into the passenger’s side of my wife’s suburban, killing our youngest son, …
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Mar 24
We all have a role to play in making our roadway community safe. Cell phone distracted driving is a major threat to the safety of motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, runners and others on our roads. Many people have taken the pledge not to drive while distracted. The time has come to step it up and change …
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Sep 29
One question we hear often is “Why focus on cell phone distracted driving? There are so many other behaviors and distractions that are more dangerous for drivers.” It’s true. There are more dangerous behaviors that drivers can engage in while behind the wheel. However, three factors need to be considered: 1.) Frequency: how often drivers …
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Sep 15
While picking up my children I heard the school crossing guard shouting at a driver who almost hit her. The driver was distracted by his cell phone conversation. Think of a school crossing area – signs posted, crossing guard with a neon vest, lots of people, etc. The driver was so distracted by the cell …
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