However, this stat also takes into account the drivers who don’t use their phones at all. At 55 mph, this is like driving 1.2-miles blindfolded, or the length of 21 football fields. Overall, drivers use their phones for an average of 1-minute, 52-seconds of every hour behind the wheel. The average duration of phone use also increased.Driver phone use also increased in every city we studied.Distracted driving increased in every state, except for Vermont.Nationwide, Zendrive found more driver phone use in our 2018 study than we did in our 2017 study: Based on our experience on the streets everyday, these numbers seemed low, and our analysis found that they were low, really low. Zendrive estimates that 69-million drivers use their phones each dayĬompare our findings to previous research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA): NHTSA estimates that 660,000 drivers use their phones during daylight hours.Overall, we found that 60-percent of drivers use their phones at least once during the day, and that at any given hour, on average, 40-percent of drivers use their phones at least once.Distracted driving is far worse than expectedīottomline, there’s a lot more driver phone use in the U.S.
To mark Zendrive’s 100-billionth mile of driver data analyzed, we tried to quantify how bad the distracted driving problem is in the US. But until now, we didn’t have accurate data on the extent of the problem. We also know that we really shouldn’t be playing with our phones while driving, as it contributes to 26 percent of all collisions. Zendrive’s 2018 Distracted Driving Snapshot reveals that 69-million drivers use their phones behind the wheel every day, far higher than the 660,000 daily distracted drivers reported by government data. How bad? 100 times worse than the most reliable data available. 100 times worse than we thought: Insights from a Zendrive’s 2018 Distracted Driving Snapshotĭistracted driving is far worse than we thought.
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