Amazing. Nearly 20% of those surveyed admitted to hitting someone or something while either talking on the phone or texting. This is not only a public safety issue but also a public health issue. Since many states and DC have laws making headsets mandatory if you are on the phone and while driving. We searched the report and could not find anything about this topic in the report. We also searched the report to see if the topics of talking and texting while driving are issues elsewhere in the world. Once again, we couldn't find a mention in the report.
Finally, as voice recognition continues to improve will you no longer have to actually type out a text message but instead dictate it a microphone and then have it sent automatically? The same type of thing if you have a synthesized voice reading your email and texts to you as you drive. Will voice recognition make driving safer?
One in four (27%) American adults say they have texted while driving, the same proportion as the number of driving age teens (26%) who say they have texted while driving.
Fully 61% of adults say they have talked on their cell phones while they were behind the wheel. That is considerably greater than the number of 16- and 17-year-olds (43%) who have talked on their cells while driving. In addition, 49% of adults say they have been passengers in a car when the driver was sending or reading text messages on their cell phone. Overall, 44% of adults say they have been passengers of drivers who used the cell phone in a way that put themselves or others in danger.
Beyond driving, one in six (17%) cell-toting adults say they have been so distracted while talking or texting that they have physically bumped into another person or an object. That amounts to 14% of all American adults who have been so engrossed in talking, texting or otherwise using their cell phones that they bumped into something or someone.
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