Traffic & Transit
Reducing cell phone distracted driving: carrot may be better way
Reducing cell phone distracted driving: carrot may be better way
Participants at the Kingwood Positive Interaction Program (PIP) June 18 were treated to a whole new way of thinking about the deadly distraction of cell phone use while driving. When Officer D.P. Von Quintus of the Houston Police Department (HPD) Kingwood Station presented his guest speaker, Courtney Scioli, everyone was expecting a grim report about how dangerous and costly the epidemic of auto crashes caused by cell phone usage has become. Instead Scioli presented an incentive program developed by a for-profit organization to get people to stay off their phones while driving. It works through the use of a smart phone app called “SAFE2SAVE.”