All of these activities are much more dangerous than we thought before. |
It was far more prevalent than we expected, certainly during the daytime. |
This study is the first to assess which types of behavior contribute most to crashes and near crashes. |
To the everyday driver, we'd like to say that, anytime you're engaging in something else while driving, that really does increase your crash risk by two to three times. |
We're spending a lot more time in our cars commuting, and we're doing a lot more in cars, especially with new technologies. We do a lot of things and we don't get caught. But in fact we're just lucky and we get complacent. |