Texting while driving: the development and validation of the distracted driving survey and risk score among young adults

Bergmark, Regan W.; Gliklich, Emily; Guo, Rong; Gliklich, Richard E.

doi:10.1186/s40621-016-0073-8

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“…Inattention in traffic is owed to the growing use of navigation systems and smartphones while driving. Interrelationships of distraction and accident rates have been confirmed in the literature, with surveys showing that it is for instance common for young drivers to use smart phones while driving [56,57]. Elderly drivers cause a growing share of accidents, and represent a major concern to law enforcement.…”

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confidence: 59%

Police Perspectives on Road Safety and Transport Politics in Germany

Gößling

2017

Sustainability

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Road safety is a key concern of transport governance. In the European Union, a Road Safety Programme was adopted in 2011, with the objective to reduce road deaths in Europe by 50% in the period from 2011 to 2020. Evidence suggests, however, that this goal will not be met. Against this background, this paper investigates police perspectives on traffic laws, traffic behaviour, and transport policy. Police officers working with road safety are in a unique position to evaluate and judge the efficiency of road safety policies, as they record traffic offences, fine, investigate, and witness in court. Geographically, focus is on transport policy in Germany, a country with a dense road network, high levels of car ownership, and a large number of car manufacturers. A total of 14 semi-structured interviews were carried out with police officers in a wide variety of positions within the traffic police in Freiburg. Thematic analysis is used to analyse content and to identify aspects that represent major areas of concern. Officers affirm that traffic laws question traffic safety, for instance with regard to speed and speed limits, or elderly drivers. Specific recommendations for changes in transport policies are made, and results are discussed in the context of their implications for road safety and the European Union's Road Safety Programme.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 59%

Police Perspectives on Road Safety and Transport Politics in Germany

Gößling

2017

Sustainability

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“…For example, construct validity of the present task should be assessed by testing whether the task is sensitive to variables known to affect rates of discounting, such as magnitude of rewards (i.e., larger rewards are discounted less; e.g., Green et al, 1997). Also, testing whether rates of discounting in the present task correlated with other relevant measures, such as cellphone dependency (Billieux et al, 2007; Igarashi et al, 2008) or frequency of distracted driving (Bergmark et al, 2016), is also important to further validate the present task.…”

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A behavioral economic analysis of texting while driving: Delay discounting processes

Hayashi

Miller

Foreman

et al. 2016

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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The purpose of the present study was to examine an impulsive decision-making process underlying texting while driving from a behavioral economic perspective. A sample of 108 college students completed a novel discounting task that presented participants with a hypothetical scenario in which, after receiving a text message while driving, they rated the likelihood of replying to a text message immediately versus waiting to reply for a specific period of time. Participants also completed a delay discounting task in which they made repeated hypothetical choices between obtaining a larger amount of money available after a delay and an equal or lesser amount of money available immediately. The results show that the duration of the delay is a critical variable that strongly determines whether participants choose to wait to reply to a text message, and that the decrease in the likelihood of waiting as a function of delay is best described by a hyperbolic delay discounting function. The results also show that participants who self-reported higher frequency of texting while driving discounted the opportunity to reply to a text message at greater rates, whereas there was no relation between the rates of discounting of hypothetical monetary rewards and the frequency of texting while driving. The results support the conclusion that texting while driving is fundamentally an impulsive choice.

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“…The secondary duties that take drivers' eyes off the forward roadway lessen visual test [10] and growth cognitive load can be specifically risky. For instance, the use of mobile phones even as driving, consistent with naturalistic studies [11], causes heaps of fatalities inside the US each year [12].…”

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Real Time Eye Tracking and Detection- A Driving Assistance System

Said¹,

Kork²,

Beyrouthy³

et al. 2018

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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Distraction, drowsiness, and fatigue are the main factors of car accidents recently. To solve such problems, an Eye-tracking system based on camera is proposed in this paper. The system detects the driver's Distraction or sleepiness and gives an alert to the driver as an assistance system. The camera best position is chosen to be on the dashboard without distracting the driver. The system will detect the driver's face and eyes by using Viola-Jones Algorithm that includes Haar Classifiers that showed significant advantages regarding processing time and correct detection algorithms. A prepared scenario is tested in a designed simulator that is used to simulate real driving conditions in an indoor environment. The system is added in real-vehicle and tested in an outdoor environment. Whenever the system detects the distraction or sleepiness of the driver, the driver will be alerted through a displayed message on a screen and an audible sound for more attention. The results show the accuracy of the system with a correct detection rate of 82% for indoor tests and 72.8 % for the outdoor environment.

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Texting while driving: the development and validation of the distracted driving survey and risk score among young adults

Cited by 41 publications

References 45 publications

Police Perspectives on Road Safety and Transport Politics in Germany

Police Perspectives on Road Safety and Transport Politics in Germany

A behavioral economic analysis of texting while driving: Delay discounting processes

Real Time Eye Tracking and Detection- A Driving Assistance System

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