Maintain Your Focus While Driving

Mental Distractions Behind the Wheel Are Real and Dangerous

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The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety partnered with researchers in the University of Utah to conduct groundbreaking research on mental distraction, also known as cognitive distraction, demonstrating that hands-free technologies in a vehicle dangerously divert motorist attention.

MENTAL DISTRACTION – Everything We KNOW

Mental distractions dangerously affect drivers behind the wheel. Just because a driver’s eyes are stored on the hands and road are saved to the wheel does not mean these are safe – hands-free is not risk-free.

MENTAL DISTRACTION – WHAT IT MEANS

Attention is vital to safe driving, yet many technologies cause drivers to lose focus of the road ahead. Hands-free features, increasingly common in new vehicles, create mental distractions that unintentionally provide motorists by using a false sense of security concerning their safety behind the wheel.

MENTAL DISTRACTION – Precisely What Is AAA DOING

AAA is dedicated to promoting road safety and reducing driver distraction through research, public education and collaboration with automakers to reduce the impact of mental distraction.