The RAC has released the results of new research that shows young drivers are far more likely to be distracted whilst in charge of a moving vehicle by high tech gadgets than those of a more mature age. The study found that drivers in the seventeen to twenty-four year old age group were most likely to find their attention taken away from the job of safely driving a vehicle by gadgets such as CD players, mobile phones and satellite navigation devices.
A staggering fifty-five percent of the youngest age bracket of drivers admitted that they had been seriously distracted by in car gadgets whilst driving a car. The survey showed that at the top of the list of most distracting gadgets were the CD player and the radio. Following the distraction of trying to find the right track on a CD or a certain radio station comes mobile phones along with operating and paying attention to the sat nav, trying to operate the cars air conditioning and concentrating on dash board warning lights.
Director at the RAC, David Bizley warned that people who failed to use in car devices in a properly safe way were putting themselves as well as others at great risk. He went on to say that the consequences of being distracted by in car gadgets could potentially be disastrous. New research by Autonational Rescue also indicates that whilst they should be paying far more attention to potential hazards on the road many young drivers relied completely on a cars satellite navigation to get them to where they wanted to be.
