Cell phones have certain features that prevent the driver from being distracted when their hands are on the wheel. New experiences that don’t stop many drivers from looking at that WhatsApp message on their mobile for a few seconds or searching for the next song to listen to with Spotify. This video perfectly shows what happens when you stop looking at the road.
This video was published by the Dashcam channel on YouTube focused on videos that help drivers with their recommendations, tips and other types of content of great interest. In the video, you can see a driver using his cell phone while driving. Every time your eyes stop looking at the road and focus on your smartphone, video editor darkens screen to show the blindness that this implies.
It is quite difficult to make drivers aware of these distractions and this video perfectly shows what happens behind the wheel. In all those seconds when the screen goes blacka vehicle travels on the road without the driver being centered on the road, so in the event of an unforeseen event, the driver’s response will be too late to avoid disaster.
Blindness of replying to WhatsApp message
And in the video you can see that the driver is traveling at low speedwhile it is normal to see people in their vehicles driving on regional roads or motorways more interested in the WhatsApp message they receive than in making sure nothing happens in advance.
Driving at 144 km/h means that 40 meters are covered every secondso if we add up the total number of seconds that the screen goes dark in the video, it’s like driving almost blindly on the road in which any mistake or unforeseen event can become a total disaster for the involved persons.
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This is the best way to become aware the responsibility of driving a car on a road, whether it is a neighborhood street, a regional street to go into town or the highway when going to a big city. There is some data that shows the serious problem authorities face with cell phone distraction while driving:
- In the United States in 2020, 13% of accidents caused by distractions led to the death of people.
- 9% of total accidents with injuries They were due to distractions with the cell phone.
- 9% or 50,098 accidents among all those reported by the police were distracted with their cell phones.
- In 2020 in the United States, a total of 398 people They died for this reason.
- In 2019 in Europein a study carried out by the Línea Directa Foundation in collaboration with the University Institute for Traffic and Road Safety Research of the University of Valencia (INTRAS), 33% of accidents are due to the use of cell phones when driving speeding (29%) and alcohol consumption (26%).
In this same study nearly 13 million drivers (48.2%) admit to using their cell phone while driving. A video published by the Dashcam channel on YouTube which is the best way to make any driver aware of the danger of being distracted for a few seconds with their cell phone while there are tools that allow you to skip to the next Spotify song with your voice , reply to a WhatsApp.
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