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Automatic Lights – Have you got your lights on?
Looking but not seeing
How often do you get caught out and have to brake suddenly? How often do you have to react to the brake lights of the vehicle in front?
Next time you are driving try to look to the furthest point you can see ahead of you. Then use your eyes to scan and look for any potential dangers such as vehicles waiting to emerge from junctions, pedestrians, traffic lights and so on.
The further ahead you look the more opportunity you have to see potential danger and then to plan how you are going to manage the risks you have seen. Perhaps by slowing down or moving out. By becoming a proactive driver by scanning well ahead you are less likely to be caught out. But if you do not see danger how can you manage it?
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Dangers of Using Your Mobile Phone Whilst Driving
New research by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) reveals the shocking extent to which drivers use their phones and tablets to take selfies, make video calls and watch videos while driving.
The findings come from research commissioned this month exclusively by the IAM, which asked 500 drivers how they use their smartphones and tablets in the car. (1)
Results show that nine per cent of drivers admitted to taking a selfie while driving ‘in the last month’. This increases to 15 per cent of young drivers aged 18-24 and 19 per cent of 25-35 year olds. Women are less selfie obsessed than men, with just five per cent of women citing they have taken a selfie while driving compared to 12 per cent of men.
Eight per cent of drivers admitted to driving while using a video-calling application such as FaceTime and Skype to make and receive video calls, rising to 16 per cent among 18 to 24 year olds.
An IAM study in 2012 showed that using a smartphone while driving is more dangerous than driving at the legal alcohol limit or when using cannabis. Drivers have much slower reaction times, difficulty staying in the same lane and are less able to adapt to even slowly changing circumstances.
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