A recent publication from a core project of the Penn Injury Science Center explored how parents and adolescents perceive cellphone-based technologies designed to reduce distracted driving. Interviews with adolescent-parent dyads found that while these technologies can help newly licensed teens build safer driving habits, the dyads believed they’d be most effective when combined with broader parental guidance and other distraction-reduction strategies rather than used alone for long-term behavior change. The article was led by Kevin Rix, from a research team of Co-PIs Kate McDonald and Kit Delgado, Doug Wiebe, Rachel Solomon, Mallory Lacy, and Jeff Ebert.
Parent and adolescent perceptions on technology to reduce distracted driving
