April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Some believe distraction cannot be solved by more regulation or enforcement. Some suggest we redesign roads.
Over the past two years, distracted driving has been like a pandemic within a pandemic, increasing at alarming rates and changing drivers’ behaviors as the pandemic wears on.” – Ryan McMahon
Source: Treehugger, April 8, 2022. Link. Ken Greenberg says there is a fundamental truth: If you design roads so that people can drive fast, they will drive fast. If it is boring looking at the road because it is long, wide, and straight, they will look at their phones. And if you design roads for everyone instead of just drivers, then everyone. . . will be a lot safer.
INSIGHTS: In the meantime, put down the phone!