Texting Dangers
NTSB Calls for a National Ban on Cell Phones Behind the Wheel
The proposed NTSB ban far exceeds current laws existing in at least 35 states.
Evidence so far shows that existing laws have not diminished texting while driving. The Associate Press reports that NHTSA data shows it increasing. Roughly 20% of USAmerican drivers – including half of drivers aged 21 to 24 – say they've texted or sent email while driving.
Overstated Risks?
In a strange coincidence, the NTSB ban was announced on the same day that new analysis of existing data claims that the dangers of cell phone use while driving may have been overestimated.
Researchers at Detroit’s Wayne State University School of Medicine re-examined two influential studies on distracted driving and car crashes and found problems in the methodologies used.
The two studies in question, a 1997 Canadian study and a 2005 Australian study, compared cell phone billing records of people who’d been involved in crashes. The billing records concretely determined the amount of phone use, but according to Richard Young, lead author of the new analysis, claimed that the studies weren’t as diligent about determining the amount of driving done by these drivers over the same period.
The Wayne State analysis was published in Epidemiology. You can read the Time Magazine story of both the proposed ban and the research analysis here.
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[…] As we told you last week, the National Transportation Safety Board unanimously urged a complete ban on drivers talking on cellphones in cars, whether handheld or hands-free. The proposed ban, if passed, would be more restrictive than any of the bans which already exist in 35 states. […]