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SAFETY DRIVING * USA - Can Technology Get Your Eyes Back on the Road?
Washington,DC,USA -Science (subscription), by John Lee -17 April 2009: -- Technology can aid or impair our ability to remain focused on the road when we are driving, and failures of attention have played an important role in most fatal accidents... A study finds that distracting tasks of increased complexity, such as dialing a phone, made crashes and near-crashes more probable, and the frequency with which motorists performed distracting activities had a close correlation with their involvement in attention-related crashes and near-crashes... Technology can serve to mediate driver attention to improve driving safety, for instance by alerting motorists away from distractions... Postdrive feedback has significant potential as a tool for enhancing driver performance, according to recent studies... (Photo from consumer affairs: cell traffic)Labels: driving safety
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