🌈 Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Demands All 50 Governors Remove Political Road Paintings — Including Rainbow Crosswalks.
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Yes but I have to think the greatest distraction to drivers is not paint on the road but the visual blight of attention-grabbing billboards and other advertising signs cluttering the roadways. I'm a free speech/free enterprise guy, but there have to be some sort of sensible limits put in place to reduce the nearly 40k road deaths ANNUALLY in the US alone.
... and phones.
Today when someone in a car is looking down it is a phone. When I was a kid, it was reefer or cocaine.
And the phone is deadlier.
Ironically the laws against using phones while driving make the use of phones while driving less safe.
Since everyone knows it’s illegal to hold a phone while driving, they hold it down on their lap which means they are looking down at their lap instead of the road.
Before those laws were enacted, people would hold their phones at eye level so they could dial a phone number or send a text and keep their eyes on the road.
I have 5 friends/relatives that have been in accidents. All have had a phone on their ear at the time. Where your eyes are may be less crucial than what your mind is aware of.
What I have to back this up is, when you are looking for an address while driving, you turn your music down.
Your example of how distracting talking on the phone while driving can be probably also applies to phone calls on Bluetooth, eating while driving, etc.
I’m not saying it’s safe to use a phone while driving. I’m just saying that ironically it’s less safe because of human behavior I’ve observed in other drivers I’ve seen on the road in response to the laws making it illegal.
A technological solution that limits the use of phones to making an emergency call when moving faster than 5mph may be more effective at preventing accidents. Although I’m not advocating for that because there are other privacy implications and differentiating between drivers and passengers that need to be taken into consideration.