The Impact of Visual and Cognitive Distractions on Driving Performance While driving small mistakes can have fatal consequences, in 2012 alone distractions led to 3,328 deaths and an estimated 421,000 injuries (http://www.distraction.gov/content/get-the-facts/facts-and-statistics.html). Some of the major causes of these mistakes are manual distractions (e.g. eating and driving), visual distractions (e.g. looking at an accident on … Continue reading The Impact of Visual and Cognitive Distractions on Driving Performance