The smartphone is a powerful tool, offering a near limitless pool of information, good and bad, at your fingertips. That also makes it a powerful distraction. Some school districts have implemented ...

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month — a good time to be mindful about potential hazards on the road. Laura Adams, senior analyst with Aceable, an Austin, Texas-based driver education company, ...

HOUSTON — April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Traffic expert Jennifer Reyna is breaking down the different types of distractions, and how we can prevent them and save lives. Sending a text ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports 3,275 people were killed in a single year — an average of about nine deaths every day. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines ...

Actions that take your eyes, hands, or mind off driving are called distractions. These brief lapses often lead to crashes that could have been avoided. Every year, a lot of distracted driving ...

A research paper by scientists at Beijing Jiaotong University proposed an electrophysiological analysis-based brain network method for the augmented recognition of different types of distractions ...

MarketWatch. (2024, March 22). Distracted Driving Statistics 2025. MarketWatch Guides. https://www.marketwatch.com/insurance-services/auto-insurance/distracted ...

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The 4 subtasks include a math calculation task (task-1), a clock angle discrimination task (task-2), a number sequence recognition task (task-3), and a mobile phone task (task-4). A research paper by ...