Factors Moderating the Impact of Distraction on Driving Performance and Safety

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• Personal Author:
  Lee JD ; Regan MA ; Young KL
• Description:
  Understanding the factors that make drivers more or less vulnerable to the distracting effects of competing activities is important when designing countermeasures to prevent and mitigate the effects of distraction. The potential for a competing activity to distract the driver and degrade safety is determined by the complex interaction of a number of factors. This chapter will examine a number of these moderating factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic, for which there is some accumulated knowledge. These include drivers' willingness to engage in distracting activities, their ability to compensate for the increased demands imposed by a competing activity (self-regulation), driving task demands, driver characteristics (e.g., age, gender, driving experience), task familiarity, and driver state. Other moderating factors, such as exposure to, and the complexity of, distracting activity, are discussed in other chapters of this book (see Chapters 3 and 7 for exposure and Chapters 12 and 13 for secondary task complexity) and hence will not be reviewed here. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Behavior Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accidents Automobile Safety Drivers Emerging Technology Motor Vehicles Task Performance
• ISBN:
  9780849374265
• Publisher:
  CRC Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Iowa ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  335-352
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063360
• Citation:
  Driver distraction: theory, effects, and mitigation, 1st edition. Regan MA, Lee JD, Young KL, eds. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2008 Oct; :335-352
• Editor(s):
  Regan MA; Lee JD; Young KL
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Driver distraction: theory, effects, and mitigation, 1st edition
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226436/cdc_226436_DS1.pdf
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