A recent study published by ZenDrive shows an uptick in distracted driving and speeding since the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown in March.
While this is not surprising per se, there may be two important factors determining this.
First, with possibly fewer cars on the road, some motorists may feel like they can take more risks, and, perhaps, convinced of the lower police presence, they are less at risk of being caught.
The second and frankly more disturbing contributor is remote working. As suggested in the ZenDrive report, the ‘mass migration’ to remote working and virtual conferencing has made us even more dependent to communication technology. This, possibly combined with the difficulty to distinguish between work and leisure time during remote working, may have made motorists more inclined to attend work meeting while driving.
Altogether, this evidence suggest that distracted driving may have gotten worse since the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown in March.
