Study: Police Reports Miss 96% of Active Phone Use Before Crashes - FuelArc News
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A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more often than police documented it. […]

A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more often than police documented it.

  • sydd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    5 days ago

    I drove someone’s new car the other day. Glancing to my right for maybe a second triggered a “keep your eyes on the road” notification and alarm. You know, I used to not understand older people’s fear of new technology. I get it now.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      My car takes nearly a full SOILD min of looking away before it starts yelling at you.

      It’s funny have worthless it is. But it still manages to yell at my father when he drives my car cause he’s leering at every woman’s tits as he drives around.

      A car with a two second trigger would drive me up a wall.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      61·
      5 days ago

      Yup. I don’t think you can approve of this kind of research without also giving tacit approval to the police state being built around us.