PSYC 110L Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Traffic Sign, Psychological Science, Gift Card
23 Jun 2016
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Comparing level of distraction while driving with the snapchat application. Distracted driving is one of the biggest safety hazards of the twenty-first century, and with a rapidly increasing amount of applications on cell phones, the risk for accidents due to distracted driving remains quite high in the united states. One of the most popular recent applications is snapchat, where users can send self- destructing photos to one another with a variety of filters and ability to add text to the photos. Other studies that surround driving and distraction allow us to have an understanding of what activities do distract drivers and how unsafe it makes the road, but focusing exclusively on. Snapchat allows us to gain data that could potentially show a difference between usage of applications versus texting or calling in future studies, as well as proving that an application like. Snapchat is more distracting than driving without using a cellular phone.
