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Texting while driving is generally outlawed for drivers in all states and the District of Columbia except Montana and formerly Missouri until August 28, 2023, when a law took effect banning cell phone use while driving. Citations will be issued for violation beginning January 1, 2025.
1 mar 2016 · Background. Texting and other cell phone use while driving has emerged as a major contribution to teenage and young adult injury and death in motor vehicle collisions over the past several years (Bingham 2014; Wilson and Stimpson 2010 ).
Today, the ubiquitous use of mobile phones while driving has led to major increases of distracted driving, with some attribution to injury and fatal crashes, particularly among young drivers.
28 lut 2023 · This paper aims to systematically review simulator-based studies to investigate what types of distractions are introduced when using the phone for texting while driving (TWD), what hardware and measures are used to analyze distraction, and what the impact of using mobile devices to read and write messages while driving is on driving performance.
6 cze 2014 · Recent studies by scholars, as well as the Department of Transportation, have continued to demonstrate the dangers of texting while driving. Previous studies have found that texting while driving reduces reaction and control times even more than drinking and driving.
1 gru 2016 · In a large and representative sample of U.S. drivers, nearly 60% of drivers admitted to at least one cell-phone related distraction while driving in the past 30 days, higher than in other national studies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2013; Olsen et al., 2013).
The AAA 2021 Traffic Safety Culture Index found that an overwhelming number of drivers (92 percent) believe texting/emailing and reading (93 percent) on a hand-held cell phone while driving is “very or extremely” dangerous.
