CNN.com article: What drivers REALLY do behind the wheel

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Itsjustb

Be careful out there, because it seems almost everyone else isn't:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/11/20/behind.wheel/index.html

From the article:

"Watching the road can be monotonous when behind the wheel. Some 32 percent of drivers who responded to the NETS survey have an interesting way to liven up the experience a little -- they read!"

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ChezJfrey

What I find disturbingly funny is that I see some drivers employing multiple distractions at the same time - just a couple weeks ago, I saw a woman with a cell phone and pastry in one hand and an open magazine in the other hand while driving down the road. And yes, her vehicle was on the move (not stationary) while she attended to these crucial activities.

I'm sure that Allstate advertisement with the absent vehicles isn't far off the mark - the extent of driver inattentiveness is probably quite high.

wheel

AOL AUTO POLL

15 percent - Talking on a handheld cell phone
70 percent- Talking on a hands-free cell phone
60 percent - Eating
5 percent - Grooming
90 percent - Speeding
50 percent - Driving sleepy (increases crash or near-crash risk
by 4 to 6 times according to Virginia Tech study
3 percent - DUI
21 percent - Managing children
5 percent - Reading
13 percent - Manipulating a GPS device/line-in MP3 player
Number of people surveyed: 1013 Source: AOL Autos

fordfasterr

We are all doomed.

John E

We need stricter accountability for those who commit mayhem on the highways. Good driving is no accident (so to speak).

C Law

but the fact remains, if you were more of a vehicular cyclist, more drivers would be forced to separate their driving, eating and reading time.

Blue Order

According to psychologists at the University of Utah, drivers talking on cell phones are as bad as drunks behind the wheel. It seems that the conversation itself gives you the level of impairment of someone with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent -- the legal limit.

And yet Helmet Head justifies the risk to others that comes from cell phone use while driving.

genec

And yet Helmet Head justifies the risk to others that comes from cell phone use while driving.

Heck, Helmet Head says drivers are doing the best they can...

banerjek

What I find mind boggling is that there seems to be an expectation that nothing will go wrong when you're behind the wheel. People get aggravated when someone leaves the lane and causes a crash when texting, but the reality is that in that situation, the person couldn't even hold a course that offered no challenges.

Let anything go wrong (animal, debris on the road, mechanical issue, etc) and a lot of people start blaming their circumstances for the crash.

Having said that, I was in a very interesting/scary experience a few years ago. During rush hour on a very crowded and undivided 4 lane highway, some lunatic did a crazy pass and collided head on with a large truck that was coming the other way. The front axle was knocked off the truck sending it in flames out of control at 60+mph into the oncoming lanes (and the shoulder where I was).

Cars were all over the place on both sides of the road, but somehow only 2 or 3 of them hit anything and even they barely took any damage. This was a very serious wreck and I wound up in the debris field,though I wasn't hit by anything. The idiot doing the insane pass was killed. The truck driver was injured.

Everyone else was damn impressive. It was just like a textbook training exercise. Everyone did the right thing that day and it was a miracle the situation didn't turn out much worse.

Mago

Some folks deserve their licenses - others need to quit going to the Three Blind Mice School of Driving.

donnamb

Some folks deserve their licenses - others need to quit going to the Three Blind Mice School of Driving.
Driving school? What? Where?

Mago

There must be a Three Blind Mice School of Driving - how else do you explain selective sight, poor situational awareness, and a disregard for obvious safety issues? Others, like the guys from the above post, avoiding debris and such, deserve to have their license for having their brains engaged, as opposed to the original candidate, who must have gone to that school to have learned such a fatally stupid move to do in defiance of sight, sense, and self-preservation.

Somedays God likes to break out his Stupid Stick and whack a few people. Some days he target-fixates and keeps on hitting some people... LOL

donnamb

There isn't mandatory drivers' education in Oregon. :mad:

Mago

There isn't one for cars in Texas, but one for motorcycles. Go figure.

StrangeWill

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