Research Report: Distracted Driving's Impact on Safety and Traffic

This report examines the significant impact of distracted driving, particularly among young adults, on both safety and traffic flow. The study focuses on the distractions caused by cell phone use and text messaging while driving, highlighting how these activities can lead to reduced driver reaction times, slower speeds, and increased traffic congestion. The research utilizes sampling and questionnaire methods to analyze how distracted drivers navigate different traffic conditions, including free flow, stable flow, and oversaturation, and how texting and cell phone conversations negatively affect driving performance. The findings suggest that texting and cell phone use are major contributors to traffic congestion, with implications for drivers of all ages, underscoring the need for interventions to mitigate these risks. The report references relevant research and findings to support the conclusions made regarding the effects of distracted driving on safety and traffic movement.

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The effect of destructed driving on safety plus traffic movement
According to this article, quite a good number of teens and young adult drivers are
destructed mostly by cell phones while driving. There are incidences where one is talking on
phone or texting while driving; this is a major destruction to almost all drivers across the United
States and the world at large. This article generally is going to address the major destructions
brought about by text messaging and phone conversations when driving. This summary shows
how destructed driving might affect driving performance. Distrait driving may have a hand to
traffic congestion, this is particularly based on the driver’s inability. Drivers who are destructed
tend to steer at slower speeds, they tend to leave large intervals between the vehicle in front and
them, and their reaction time is reduced.
There are so many destructors that affect drivers. The hypothesis of this reading was to
scrutinize thwack for destructed driving on general lashing executions (Welburn, Garner,
Franklin, Fine, Stavrinos, 2010). Almost all teens and young adults prefer text messaging as it’s
a faster method of communication; its paramount to evaluate the collision text messaging has on
distraction on safety and traffic flow. Cell phone conversation is also a distraction to drive.
Drivers under distraction are prone to errors compared to those who are drivers who operate
under no distraction. The inspection was conducted based on variables determining traffic
jamming: one was dials of driver traffic inadequacies, two; dials of jammed traffic setting.
According to the article, sampling and questionnaire methods were used (Welburn,
Garner, Franklin, Fine, Stavrinos, 2010). The data was collected from different samples, this was
used to calculate the percentage of teens and young adults and the results were found and
conclusions made how distractions affect most drivers. There was a notable outcome of

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disruption for variation in speed; post hoc tests stipulated greater unpredictability in driving
speediness was revealed in texting and slightly during cell phone likened to no disruption. Lane
conversion frequency was outstandingly lesser through the cell phone disruption condition.
There were no momentous differences amongst age groups, these results suggest that all
motorists nonetheless of age, could drive in the way that effects traffic damagingly when
distracted. Texting and cell phone conversation are the greatest obstructs to traffic congestion.

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References
Welburn, S.C., Garner, A.A., Franklin, C.A., Fine, P.R., Stavrinos, D., April (2010).
Psychometric validity of the Questionnaire Assessing Distracted Driving (QUADD).
The2011 University of Alabama at Birmingham Expo for Undergraduate Research,
Birmingham, AL.