I am exploring the effects of texting and using your cellphone while driving. Do bans restricting usage of cell phones and texting laws increase or decrease accidents caused by distracted driving? Does one influence more accidents? Are they negatively correlated?
I have discovered that they are so many variables in this area of research. Texting and handheld bans together cause more people to move to non-visible texting as a way to go unseen by Police officers. Which could then, in turn, be a more dangerous action and cause more accidents. Whereas, texting bans alone decrease texting activity but increase handheld usage. Location, age and type of driver may also play a part in accidents caused by drivers using their cell phone while driving.
Stay tuned as I continue my research and update my blog. Here are more topics within distracted driving that I will be looking into:
Does taking a pledge hold people to be accountable? Does online activism
raise enough awareness? Is it the cell phones fault or all the
distracting vices and different areas we are being pulled in and our
multitasking wired brains causing us to be in more car accidents.
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