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Texting and driving. Simply saying, ?just don?t do it” isn?t working. According to the Canadian Automobile Association, driver distraction is a factor in 4 million vehicle crashes in North America each year, and 26 percent of all car crashes involve phone use.
On top of that, drivers who text are 23 times more likely to be involved in a collision than their non-distracted counterparts.
Technology Burden
Yes it can be tempting to blame technology. Distracted driving wasn?t as much of an issue before the mobile phone, was it" Maybe if our phones weren?t so distracting, we wouldn?t be distracted by them" The new Galaxy S7 edge, for example, has specs that put even some computers to shame – HD display, a dual-pixel camera, and over 250 GB of memory – making it a beast of a machine that negates the need for expensive GPS systems and a slew of other road travel accouterments. Maybe technology has created its own demise; it?s so appealing that we just can?t say no to it anymore.
Maybe the solution is that drivers stop investing in smartphones with enough memory to replace our road maps and enough pixels to replace our cameras" But that?s not how advancement works. Technology has created a problem, and if vehicle manufacturers have anything to say about it, technology will fix it. After all, if we start going down the road of blaming technology for our driving woes, we might as well begin with ...