Guess What Percentage of Teens Text and Drive
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The percentage is forty six percent (46%). - Some say that this is a low estimate for assessing how many teens text while driving:
“”Motor vehicle crashes are the No. 1 killer of teens, claiming more than 6,000 15- to 20-year-olds each year,” AAA New Mexico spokeswoman Jeannie Chavez said in a press release. “Their attention should not be divided among phones, friends and the road.”"
link: AAA study: 46 percent of teens text while driving
So… a high accident demographic pays less attention to driving. Add to this the number of people talking on the cell phone while driving. The accident rate will not be diminishing. - Perhaps this is Darwin’s theory of evolution working in the technological age.
Catherine Forsythe
Tags: teenagers, texting, driving, cars, accidents, cell phones, aaa
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lumpy
July 11th, 2007
at 9:58am
It is scary and I have thought about this before. Texting is crazy. Hands free is a little better. Simply driving would be best. The whole issue, in term of how our brains work, is something psychologist call an “attention pool”.
Our brains are only capable of filtering out so many things in the environment in order to focus on a task(s). Did you ever notice someone turning down the car radio (while driving) when the weather turns bad? They do so without even realizing it and it is done so our brain can focus more on the driving.
What puzzles me is that based on the above, it seems more like misplaced priorities than anything else. Why did we not have this problem during the era of the CB radio? Do HAM radio operators with mobile rigs have a higher incidents of accidents? …or did we just not notice?