At present, many drivers pick up their mobile phones when driving at red lights or even on the way, take a look at wechat, brush microblogs, and sometimes even wait until the driver behind them honks his horn to urge them to put down their mobile phones. Data shows that at a speed of 60km / h, just looking down at an 80 character wechat is equivalent to driving 50 meters blindly.
I’m so addicted to wechat that I don’t even know when I bump into people.
Li, the boss of the company, was completely “kidnapped” by wechat this time. One day, on the way home, he was so fascinated by his mobile phone wechat that he bumped into a cyclist and still didn’t know it. When he got home, he saw his windshield cracked. He also took photos with his mobile phone and sent them to his wechat circle of friends, with a caption saying “fear later”. The next day, when the police found Li according to the surveillance video, Li’s “fear” became “fear”. A few days ago, Changping Procuratorate approved his arrest on suspicion of traffic accident, and because he had escaped, he might face more than seven years of fixed-term imprisonment.
playing mobile phones is more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
According to a previous report by the daily mail of the UK, Taylor, an 18-year-old girl in the United States, tweeted while driving, with an average of one tweet every 90 seconds. One of them is “it’s not safe to drive while driving, haha!” It turned out to be her “last stroke”. A few seconds later, Taylor’s car collided with an oil tanker and was killed. His parents asked the Idaho state government to legislate against driving and tweeting in order to admonish the world.
The reporter’s experiment found that from picking up the mobile phone and opening the microblog to browsing a microblog message, it takes about 10 seconds for the eyes to freeze on the screen. When the car runs at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, it will drive more than 80 meters in 10 seconds. In addition to the reaction time and braking distance, the distance required from the detection of danger to the standstill of the vehicle may exceed 100 meters.
After a follow-up survey of more than 100 truck drivers for 18 months, researchers from Virginia Tech found that when drivers texted while driving, the probability of an accident was 23 times that of normal driving, and 2.8 times that of making a phone call.
The British Transport Research Laboratory also published a set of statistical data: the reaction time of drivers who use mobile phones to send text messages while driving will be 35% slower than normal. In contrast, the reaction time of drivers who drink and drive will be 12% slower, and the reaction time of drivers who smoke marijuana will be 21% slower.
playing mobile phones distracts 80%
Hao manliang, a traffic safety expert, told the reporter that driving requires very high concentration, which is a vital safety guarantee. Li’s accident is a typical accident caused by his lack of concentration, because he and pedestrians are in the same direction, and the probability of accidents in the same direction is very small. The accidents are prone to turning (turning) and facing (driving opposite).
Hao manliang said that China’s traffic law stipulates that you can’t receive or make calls while driving because receiving or making calls, playing wechat, etc. will distract 80% of the driver’s attention, and the remaining 20% of attention is not enough to ensure safe driving. Therefore, receiving and calling mobile phones and playing wechat have gradually become one of the “road killers”.
Generally speaking, the driver sees abnormal road conditions from his eyes on the road, reflects them to his brain, directs the braking from his brain, and then completes the braking of the vehicle. The total distance of the whole process is the braking distance; In terms of time, this process usually takes 0.45 seconds to 0.7 seconds, and very few people react very quickly. For example, Lang Ping only takes 0.21 seconds. But even in terms of Lang Ping’s reaction speed, if it was 60 kilometers per hour, the car would have driven five or six meters, and the average person would have driven at least 12 meters. In addition, the distance within which the brain issues a braking command and stops the vehicle is called the “non safe area”. If someone enters this area, he will be either killed or injured.
According to the reporter’s calculation, if a vehicle’s driving speed is 60 km / h, the driving distance per second is about 16.7 meters. According to previous experiments on the Internet, when driving at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, looking at a wechat message with about 80 characters, you can drive blindly for about 3 seconds, which is equivalent to 50 meters. In case of an emergency, it takes at least 20 meters to brake.
you can be fined 200 yuan for playing mobile phone while driving.
Yesterday afternoon, a front-line traffic policeman told reporters that in recent years, the number of “low headed” drivers who play mobile phones while driving has gradually increased, and the traffic accidents caused by this have also increased. The traffic policeman told the reporter that when dealing with accidents, the first-line traffic police in the city found that drivers often said that the accident occurred because they “looked down at their mobile phones or picked up their mobile phones”. When they looked up, they had already hit people or cars. In addition to accidents, there is also a phenomenon that when you wait for a red light at the intersection, the green light lights up, but the vehicle does not move. If you look carefully, you will find that the driver is concentrating on bowing his head to play with his mobile phone.
Hao manliang said that according to the traffic law, 200 yuan should be fined for receiving and calling mobile phones. This provision is a binding and advocacy provision in the traffic law. There are many such provisions, such as alternating driving. Although it is stipulated that the penalty for not alternating driving is 100 yuan, in fact, there is no penalty. There are also such provisions in foreign countries. These provisions need to be observed by drivers voluntarily and cannot be relied on by the traffic police for law enforcement. Of course, the traffic control department has the equipment and means to enforce the law, and the road traffic police will also punish the driver after discovering it.
related links: NPC deputies once suggested that driving and playing with mobile phones should be punished
It is reported that last year, a bus driver in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province knocked down a cyclist and killed him. In less than seven minutes, the driver looked down 39 times. This incident attracted the attention of relevant personnel of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. During the deliberation of the draft amendment to the criminal law (IX) discussed at the 11th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People’s Congress in 2014, it was suggested that the act of playing with mobile phones while driving should be included in the crime of dangerous driving.
Shen Jinqiang, a deputy to the National People’s Congress who put forward this proposal, said that playing with mobile phones and handheld terminals while driving can cause “blind driving”, which is more dangerous and harmful than drunk driving and drug driving. If such acts are punished, it is believed that the driving risk will be reduced.
It is reported that other countries have also stipulated that driving to play with mobile phones will lead to serious consequences. For example, in the UK, playing with mobile phones while driving is considered as deadly as driving under the influence of alcohol. If a driver causes a fatal accident due to distraction such as texting while driving, the driver who causes the accident will face up to 14 years of imprisonment. In Pennsylvania, playing with mobile phones while driving is defined as a crime against public safety.
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