We are living in the age of technology where we post almost everything starting from our lazy In-bed morning selfie to what we eat, who we meet throughout the day, and our not-so-indistinct coffee mug leading to good-night selfie.
While previously, the masses used to communicate through verbally, it’s got leveled up with visuals these days every single moment of our life is live but none of us know that we might be sending our very last moments of life live.
With the increasing age of technology comes the increased risk of Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA), especially among the younger newly licensed Adolescent drivers. The reason
(1) Driving is a complex task requiring both concentration and workload while the use of a smartphone imposes an additional workload with an extensive increase in heart rate during the on-call period.
It may not be directly related to accidents, but it does make the drivers less able to cope with emergency situations and abrupt speed changes demands.
(2) Over the past few years smart phone usage has increased extensively among all age groups with Tiktok, Whatsapp messengers, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and Snapchat among the most used mobile application.
Almost 5 years ago a trend got started on social media where everyone was snapping their speedometer on the highway with a speed of 100 or even above with songs running in the background on full volume.
After a few serious incidents, Snapchat released a “No Snap while you drive” sticker but it just wasn’t sufficient for the youth.
It got so bad that a law firm named Steers And associates started a campaign in August 2015 called Snapchatevidenceresearch Accidents where the survivors or the family members were provided attorneys for life insurance and the accident snap was used as a piece of evidence.
The results of previous research, it is clearly indicated that the driver did not consider the use of smartphones as a factor in poor driving performance however it has been proved by research that is just texting while driving can put the driver at higher risk of accidents sometimes fatal and that risk gets even bigger when someone is engaged on a social media platform. After years been passed no serious government action has been taken to reduce or more appropriately completely eliminate the use of smartphones while driving.
It is often believed that Snapchat and similar apps actually popularized reckless driving. See this article
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