100 vehicles. 241 drivers. 81 crashes. 81% of vehicles had a crash?
34% of drivers had a crash? really? On 22 Apr 2006, at 07:47, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <richard- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<About NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA) > U.S. Department of Transportation.url>> Hello all, > > Here is a link to the NTHSA study on, among other things, mobile > use and > driving. It is interesting since it involves an extensive data > collection method of "100 vehicles equipped with video and sensor > devices for more than one year. During that time, the vehicles were > driven nearly 2,000,000 miles, yielding 42,300 hours of data. The 241 > drivers of the vehicles were involved in 82 crashes, 761 near crashes, > and 8,295 critical incidents." > > Basically they found that reaching for "moving objects" is the most > risky but that the use of a phone is a very common and risky > destracion. > > I have not dug into the actual method as of yet. I wonder if there > is a > type a hawthorne effect. > > Rich L. > > > http://nhtsa.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem. > 416f74e861 > 3992381601031046108a0c/? > javax.portlet.tpst=4427b997caacf504a8bdba101891e > f9a_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_4427b997caacf504a8bdba101891ef9a_viewID=de > ta > il_view&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=token&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=toke > n& > itemID=71052f9b8559a010VgnVCM1000002c567798RCRD&viewType=standard > > > > <About NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration > (NHTSA) U.S. Department of Transportation.url> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
