Driver distraction from cell phone use and potential for self-limiting behavior

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This project consists of three parts. The first is a review of the literature on driver distraction that primarily focuses on cell phone use. The second two parts involve analysis of an existing field operational test (FOT) database to examine: 1) self-limiting behavior on the part of drivers who use cell phones, and 2) eye glance patterns for drivers involved in cell phone conversations and visual-manual tasks (e.g., texting) as compared to no-task baseline driving. The literature review discusses the apparent contradiction between results of case-crossover and simulator studies that show increases in instantaneous risk due to talking on a cell phone and results of crash-data analyses that show no substantial increase in crashes associated with increases in cell phone use in vehicles. The first data analysis shows some evidence of self-limiting behavior in cell phone conversations. Drivers initiate calls when on slower roads and at slower speeds, often when stopped. However, they call

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