A new study from relatively newcomer Root insurance he wants to prove what we’ve all suspected in recent months: that we drive more distracted. There are few things that raise my suspicions about this.
Obviously, insurance companies have a major interest in proving the dangers of driving, but a report from NBC News took the Root study and concluded that accidents are the result of our new addiction video chat. The report says Zoom and the like are responsible for these car accidents. Fine. Fair enough.
The problem is that these drivers do not videoconference while driving. I am driving after video conferencing. NBC claims driving after a Zoom or FaceTime or Google Meet call causes us to crash because drivers are more distracted from them. I find it strange. Here’s what NBC does alleged about the dangers of picking up car keys after closing a video call:
Moreover, a national consumer survey of 1,819 American drivers shows that 54% of Americans who drive after a video conversation report problems concentrating. When professional life became synonymous with home life, COVID-19 created new distractions and challenges for American drivers who get behind the wheel of a car.
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The report, too claims there is a “higher risk of distracting cognitive attention, looking at the road while your thoughts are elsewhere. This zoning can mean that you don’t notice a dangerous situation soon enough to react. “He calls these drivers” Zoom Zombies. “It’s all attractive, but he draws a strange conclusion.
The funny thing is earlier, report mentions that driving skills have atrophied, which seems a much more likely reason for accidents. The best way to get used to something is to practice and I was driving less last year.
Many of us are stuck inside, working online, rather than commuting to work. We lost our advantage, that’s all. When you add this to the amount of sensory overload that driving involves, it makes sense that people face serious accidents.
Think of the monotony of working from home, the blockages that kept children out of school. Cars stuck in the alley. I don’t think I was so familiar with the thrum of the A / C system in my house. I’ve never been so in tune with the sounds of the house! Because we need stimuli, but we are not used to the sensory overload of driving almost as much as before the lock.
I think when you combine the “risk of distraction” with atrophied driving skills and sensory overload of lenses and sounds on the road, you will have a better explanation of why we fall so badly.