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Bookmark or Share- Distracted driving - IIHS-HLDIPhone applications that restrict or limit access to electronic devices also have been developed. These apps generally work when vehicles are in motion and can silence the phone, redirect incoming calls to voicemail or respond to text messages with a preprogrammed message. Apple released its Do Not Disturb While Driving feature in the fall 2017.
- Smartphones lead to distraction. Could they also prevent it? - IIHS-HLDICrash data based on police reports indicate that around 3,350 people were killed in all distraction-related crashes and 382 died in crashes involving cell phone use in 2021. But those numbers are almost certainly underestimates, as surviving drivers often don’t admit they were looking at their phone and police can’t always tell what ...
- Electronic device laws - IIHS-HLDIDistracted driving: Electronic device laws. Making roads and vehicles safer for everyone. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent, nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to reducing deaths, injuries and property damage from motor vehicle crashes through research and evaluation and through education of consumers, policymakers and safety ...
- Bans reduce phone use, but what about crashes? - IIHS-HLDIThis approach has worked to increase safety belt use and also to reduce the problem of alcohol-impaired driving. Following this model, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) supported special enforcement demonstration programs in Hartford, Conn., and Syracuse, N.Y., aimed at reducing talking or texting on hand-held phones.
- Searching for answers to the problem of distracted drivingThough wireless phone use continues to climb among the general population, hand-held phone use by drivers appears to be leveling off. After doubling to 6 percent between 2000 and 2005, the percentage of drivers observed talking on hand-held phones while stopped at intersections has stood at 5-6 percent since then, the National Highway Traffic ...
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