Texting Ourselves to Death: Is Distracted Driving a Solvable Problem or a Fact of Life?
April 27, 2018 | Boston, MA
More than 37,000 Americans died on U.S. roads in 2016* – a staggering number. Policymakers, law enforcement and victims’ families point to distracted driving as an important contributing factor. But so far, efforts to curb distracted driving have fallen woefully short. With 94 percent of crashes involving human error*, can brain science and psychology provide insights to dramatically reduce distraction-related roadway fatalities and injuries? Can technology play a role in solving the problem it helped to create?
Presented by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Center for Health Communication, the Travelers Institute, the National Safety Council, the Road to Zero Coalition and MassBike.
Speakers
Keynote Address
Bryan Reimer, Ph.D., Research Scientist, MIT AgeLab; Associate Director, The New England University Transportation Center, MIT
Panel Discussion
Moderator- Joan Woodward, President, Travelers Institute; Executive Vice President, Public Policy, Travelers
Bryan Reimer, Ph.D., Research Scientist, MIT AgeLab; Associate Director, The New England University Transportation Center, MIT
Rafi Finegold, Vice President, Product & Experience, TrueMotion
Jay A. Winsten, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Harvard School of Public Health; Frank Stanton Director, Center for Health Communication
Event Details
Friday, April 27, 2018
12:30 p.m. Registration & Networking
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Luncheon Program
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Harvard Medical School
Pechet Room, First Floor
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
*Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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