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Cars With Screens As Risky As Cellphones?
Are Cars With Screens Now As Risky As Using Cell Phones?
The era of inbuilt screens in cars has come to stay, with car manufacturers springing up all kinds of eye candy electric cars with inbuilt screens for security.
At the same time, you reverse for efficiency while you drive, like Tesla, which shows your car’s proximity to other vehicles, whether parked or stationary.
This is the era of beautiful screens in vehicles. It is modern, it is valued, and it is technically advanced. But how then do we overlook the potentials of this new car ideas?
The last time I checked, it is still a crime to use the phone while you drive because it poses a risk and is a source of distraction. When we use our phones while driving, we try to do it without getting caught, even if it has been safely stationed on the screen for some convenience.
People, however, do not feel this amount of remorse, guilt, or need to hide when they are using the big screen that has been confidently mounted on your dashboard by the manufacturer.
But do they all have the same tendency to distract the driver, causing the driver to look away from the road and all the oncoming traffic while looking at the screen? Is there a new law that governs the new screens being added to the dashboards of modern cars? Are they safe to use while you drive? But is cell phone usage still banned while driving?
Statistics show that 22 people died from phone usage while driving in the UK, with 674 injuries. 15,300 prosecutions for the same crime. But what then does statistics say about the use of the screens in the vehicles?
Are they to be considered automatically safe for drivers’ usage because they come with the car? Does it pose less danger to road users than phone usage? Has there been any research to prove this?
Conclusion
While we all strive to upgrade our current cars to whatever dream car we have in our minds, road users need to find out the impact, if there is any, of the new vehicles with screens in the. Make your findings before the decision to purchase a car that will be used temporarily due to the negative potentials. While it has literally takem over the road, should the society be enlightened more on the impact of using the screens in vehicles, there are no adverts, no cautions, no call to actions on the issue, to help create awareness of some sort, to help educate people on the right use of the screen, either slowing down to look, to pulling over to use it. There should be an awareness program on the topic.
