A Novel Distracted Driving Prevention Tool

项目摘要/摘要 拟议项目的总体目标是防止年轻司机使用他们的移动电话(例如，发短信， 通过第三方应用程序打电话或发消息)。提出了一种新的技术，以降低 因使用手机而分心驾驶的情况普遍存在。该系统将创新地吸引发送者 在防止分心的过程中进行智能手机通信。青少年面临的主要健康威胁 美国发生机动车撞车事故。开车的青少年和他们的同龄人占五分之一。 美国15至19岁青少年死亡。根据警方的撞车报告，开车时使用手机 青少年司机在车祸中严重受伤的可能性大大增加。2018年，89%的青少年拥有 智能手机和80%的青少年每天都会发短信。青少年强烈希望使用他们的手机打电话或发短信 一般情况下，他们比成年人更有可能在开车时发短信。青少年知道 智力分心驾驶的危险，但仍在继续参与。青少年尤其强烈地感觉到他们 需要在父母开车时接听电话或回复短信，并报告联系他们的人 当他们开车时，最常见的是父母。许多州正在制定法律，以限制短信和手机的使用 然而，即使在非法的情况下，这种活动的持续盛行也说明了有必要使用新的 解决办法。技术解决方案，以硬件或软件的形式阻止短信和呼叫(联锁) 存在，但到目前为止，由于各种原因，它们的有效性一直有限，这些技术只寻求 影响司机的行为。我们提出了一种新的技术解决方案，使驾驶员和 在防止分心驾驶的任务中向司机发送信息的人。

Project Summary/Abstract The overall goal of the proposed project is to prevent young drivers from using their mobile phones (e.g., texting, calling or messaging through a third-party app) while driving. A novel technology is proposed to reduce the prevalence of distracted driving due to mobile phone use. The system will innovatively engage the senders of smartphone communications in the process of preventing distractions. The leading health threat to teens in the U.S. is motor vehicle crashes. Teens behind the wheel and their peer passengers account for one in every five deaths of 15 to 19 year-olds in the United States. According to police crash reports, cellphone use while driving among teen drivers greatly increases the likelihood of severe injuries in crashes. In 2018, 89% of teens owned a smartphone and 80% of teens are daily texters. Teens strongly intend to use their cellphone for calling or texting in general and are significantly more likely than adults to engage in text-messaging while driving. Teens know the dangers of distracted driving intellectually, yet continue to participate. Teens feel particularly strongly that they need to answer calls or reply to texts from a parent while they are driving and report the person who contacts them most often while they are driving is a parent. Many states are enacting laws to curb texting and cellphone use while driving; however, the continued prevalence of this activity even where it is illegal illustrates the need for novel solutions. Technological solutions, in the form of hardware or software that block texting and calling (interlocks) exist, but their effectiveness to date has been limited for a variety of reasons and these technologies only seek to affect the behavior of the driver. We propose a novel technological solution that engages both the driver and the person sending a message to the driver in the mission of preventing distracted driving.