Hello. My husband continues to feel like he's a good enough driver to text while driving, sometimes talks on the phone, drives and texts, sometimes reads, sometimes talks on the phone while eating and drinking things which require opening and closing! We live in a high congestion city and he spends a lot of time in the car and also takes long road trips often. He feels that he is a good driver and that he can do all those things safely and my asking him not to is a nagging thing. We've often had to jam on breaks or swerve to miss hitting others because he wasn't paying attention, and swerved to catch exits almost missed as well. It doesn't make sense to me to risk his life, my life, the lives of others or our children someday just to make a call or have a chat. I'd LOVE links to articles, published studies, anything by 'experts' that attests to the extreme danger of multi-tasking while driving. I feel he'd listen more to that than to the 'nagging' wife. thanks for your help.
2007-10-26 11:31:03 · 8 answers · asked by abiona 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
His habits have the potential for showing that he is DEAD wrong.
For articles on this type of behavior, and, for origianal research sources and data, try the sites for these organizations:
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
National Safety Council
Department of Trasportation
AAA Foundation
For the three years, beginning in 2001 I did research for the City of San Jose's Taxi Advisory Team on traffic safety. The data was overwhelming in showing that "multitasking" is a myth, and, that anyone who tries doing more that one thing at a time, finds that BOTH task are not done as well. If one of those tasks is driving a car, the results are often tragic.
As some have often pointed out when legislation is passed, requiring hands free phones in cars, It's not the hands, it is the distraction caused by the conversation that leads to collisions.
Here is an interesting statistic I learned form my trainer for my Defensive Driving Course Instructor's certificate. 80% of all drivers claim that they drive better than 50% of other drivers. This, clearly cannot be so. This means that most driver are in denial about how good a driver they are.
2007-10-27 10:50:05 · answer #1 · answered by Vince M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I don't have any links, but I do have experience. I work for the highway department and I was a volunteer fire department member. I have attended many MVA's of those good multi taskers both at work and with the fire dept. IF I AM WORKING ON A HIGHWAY JOB AND SEE A MULTI-TASKER I will report the plate number to the police. The day before yesterday while doing traffic control on a bridge site a person swerved around stopped traffic and went through the traffic control persons stop sign. The police were notified he was stopped his excuse was "I didn't see the sign I was on the phone". He has been charged for dangerous driving and will have lots of time to talk on his cell phone as he walks to work.
2007-10-26 12:14:42 · answer #2 · answered by Ken M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any links for you but try this,
If you drive and he calls you whilst driving then half way through your conversation, hang up (without giving him any notice) and turn your phone off, wait a few hours before going home (the longer the better) he won't have a clue whats happened all he knows is that the phone went dead whilst you were driving and now he can't get hold of you. might scare him into thinking about what could of really happened.
2007-10-26 11:37:16 · answer #3 · answered by Keith S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's putting his life, and the lives of everyone else on the road and in his car in danger. It's not just him. It's getting to be a national epidemic, especially texting while driving. People need to leave all that crap at home and concentrate on driving.
2007-10-26 14:33:01 · answer #4 · answered by Fall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the things you have listed are shown in the Allstate insurance commercials.
If I say any more, it won't be nice.
He is the type of person who KILLS people like me.
"I'm sorry, I didn't see him" - I've heard and felt that one.
Sorry doesn't fix dead.
2007-10-26 15:40:57 · answer #5 · answered by Firecracker . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask any paramedic how much he enjoys scraping people off dashboards who think they don't have to give driving 100% of their attention.
2007-10-26 19:12:35 · answer #6 · answered by Barry auh2o 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think MSNBC did a story on this, or one of the major news channels.
2007-10-26 11:37:01 · answer #7 · answered by enhancedquang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my man changes his clothes while he drives ,i hope this makes you feel better
2007-10-26 11:40:55 · answer #8 · answered by ♥NíKKí ♥ ♥GíRL♥ ™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋