Organisation: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
Date of Publication: April 2025
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre: 10 September 2025
Distraction from smartphones is an important road safety issue and efforts to identify effective countermeasures remain a priority.
Most consumers use either an Android or iOS smartphone device that comes with a feature that can block or limit distractions (referred herein as Do Not Disturb [DND]). Unfortunately, only a small percentage of drivers use this feature while driving and often only on a subset of their driving trips.
This study aimed to (a) understand the barriers to using DND countermeasures for smartphone use while driving and (b) determine the feasibility of overcoming these barriers through educational materials to improve driver awareness and knowledge of DND.
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