Cell Phone Conversation

Cell Phone Conversation

Cell Phone Conversation and Relative Crash Risk Update: Update, the Law and other Social Sciences

This chapter reviews key findings since 2014 that are relevant to estimating the relative crash risk of conversing via a cell phone during real-world and naturalistic driving in passenger vehicles. It updates chapter 102 in the previous edition of this Encyclopedia (Young, 2015a). The objective is to determine if recent data confirms the conclusion in Young (2015a) that engaging in a cell phone conversation does not increase crash risk beyond that of driving without engaging in a cell phone conversation. In particular, a new estimate will be made of the relative crash risk for cell phone conversation in the recent Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2) naturalistic driving study data. This estimate will be compared with five other estimates in a meta-analysis. A recent experimental study will also be discussed, to see if it supports the hypothesis that driver self-regulation compensates for the slight delays in event response times during cell phone conversation.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Richard Young, “Cell Phone Conversation and Relative Crash Risk Update: Update” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)

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