Wednesday, January 13, 2010

How do accidents happen while texting.


Texting is one of the major reasons why accidents happen when people drive one road. Here is how everything starts. You start to drive to some place and everything seems to be busy. Suddenly a beep comes in from your mobile and you pick up your mobile and view the message. It’s you girl who messaged you and she seems to be in a happy mood. I can’t cut the chat saying that you are on drive, you think.

You start messaging and she replies you back. After sometime the driver before you had to stop his car unexpectedly for some reason and you will not notice that and crash into his car. Now, DriveSafe.ly is a safe mobile appl that will help you chat when you are on a drive. It reads out loudly the incoming messages and replies to them when you are busy. This light weigh application can be used with blackberry, iphone and droid also.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Texting while driving results in slow reaction time.


Cell phones were not in existence few years ago, but the trend has changed. Teens prefer Mobiles because they believe that life without mobile is miserable. Well, that true to some extent. But your life can becomes miserable if you text message while driving and this is also true to most extent.

A study in the journal “Human Factors” says why texting (sending SMS) while driving is dangerous when compared to talking to somebody on phone or with a fellow passenger on board. The tests say that the reaction time is decreases incredibly while sending SMS while driving. Reading time has most effect on drivers than composing a message. Mobile apps like DriveSafe.ly should come handy where you can hear to the incoming messages or mails you receive in your mobile with just a touch.

However, the attention switches to the other side while texting and hence the reaction time has some effect on it.

Focused gets shifted while sending SMS.


Research work continues at different universities to check the possibility of accidents for sending SMS while driving, here is what happened at University of Utah. 40 college aged people were taken for the research, to find out the test reaction every time they send a message while driving. Not, surprisingly the research proved that the accident rate increases enormously when people send a message while driving.

Driving performance gets negative impact while texting when you are on run, the negative impact exceeds the impact of conversation on a cell phone or with a fellow passenger behind him/her while driving. The students were allowed to use their own cell phone while driving as they are most familiar with their own handsets. Research found that conversation on call splits the focus between two tasks, but when messaging the focus shifts to one or the other. So the risk factor is very high when messaging. However, free mobile apps like DriveSafe.ly should help students as the apps reads out the text messages and emails while you are on drive.