Do Sat Nav’s add to the 78% driver distraction car crashes?
Psychologists at Lancaster University and Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), are to examine "potentially dangerous effects” of Sat Nav in cars because 78 % of crashes were caused by driver inattention, the Telegraph reports.
Researchers will analyse how drivers handle the information they receive from sat-nav systems and how they respond to it.
"If we see any worsening of attention or memory performance while people are carrying out the navigation task, this might indicate that the navigation system imposes demands on the participant which could be dangerously distracting", said Polly Dalton, one of the researchers involved in the project.
"By the end of these experiments, we will be able to provide clear measurements of the ways in which the use of in-car navigation systems might interfere with attention and memory performance."
