Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps
I&#x27;m of the belief that while phones have contributed, it&#x27;s just not hard enough to drive anymore.  Try driving a manual shift, non power steering vehicle some time and using your phone.  That&#x27;s the world the roads were built for, not this ultra easy, power assisted, auto-speed control, auto-lane control world where you don&#x27;t even feel the speed difference between 60 and 90.<p>I used to hear people say they couldn&#x27;t drive without the radio because they &quot;needed the distraction&quot;.  I never got that.  Isn&#x27;t driving supposed to be the only thing you&#x27;re doing while driving?<p>All the hands free apps in the world can&#x27;t solve split focus.  Even a bluetooth, voice activated system requires you to commit brain cycles to the conversation that&#x27;s coming through that will take away from your ability to drive.<p>We sit and argue about how bad context switching is, how important it is in our careers as developers to focus on what we&#x27;re doing, then we build apps and devices that are competing to be the best attention stealing devices they can be.