研究表明:57%的碰撞都与使用手机有关

研究表明:57%的碰撞都与使用手机有关

Zendrive makes the software that tells fleet operators and insurance companies how people drive, using smartphone sensors like the accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS. Every year they aggregate the data from the billions of miles its users travel to do a report, which Treehugger dutifully covers with titles like Study Finds That 29 Percent of People on the Road Drive Like Jerks and Drivers Look at Their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips.

Zendrive开发的软件可以告诉车队运营商和保险公司人们如何驾驶，它使用智能手机传感器，如加速度计、陀螺仪和全球定位系统。每年，他们都会收集用户旅行数十亿英里的数据，然后做一份报告。“环保树”网站尽职尽责地用标题报道这些数据，比如研究发现，29%的人在路上开车时像傻子一样，88%的旅行中司机会看手机。

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This year, the study is as shocking as ever. Key finding: "Upon analyzing a subset of over 86,000 collisions from a dataset of hundreds of thousands of collisions, Zendrive found that 57% of all crashes involve phone use."

今年，这项研究和以往一样令人震惊。关键发现:“通过分析来自数十万次碰撞数据集的一个超过86000次碰撞子集，Zendrive发现57%的碰撞都与使用手机有关。”

The minute before collisions. Zendrive

Fully 16.8% or one in six collisions involved the use of a cellphone less than five seconds before the crash, and can be "attributed directly to a phone-related distraction." They also report that "with 57% of all collisions involving at least one instance of phone use, we found that collisions related to phone usage are widely underreported."

16.8%(六分之一)的撞车事故与在撞车前五秒内使用手机有关，“可直接归因于手机相关的分心”。他们还报告说，“57%的碰撞至少涉及一次使用手机的情况，我们发现与使用手机有关的碰撞被广泛低估了。”

Blast off!. Zendrive

Since there are fewer drivers on the road, there is more room for aggressive driving and rapid acceleration, which Zendrive pairs with the increased phone use to explain the 63% increase in collisions per million miles traveled, compared to January. "Hiding in plain sight, these subtle changes in our behavior can become the perfect storm as these shifts remain unaddressed."

由于路上的司机少了，就有了更大的空间进行激进的驾驶和快速加速，Zendrive将这一现象与手机使用的增加结合起来解释了与1月份相比，每百万英里行驶中发生的碰撞事件增加了63%。“隐藏在显而易见的地方，我们行为上的这些微妙变化可能会成为完美风暴，因为这些变化没有得到解决。”

Another factor in the rising number of deaths is likely the rising number of light trucks (the industry term for SUVs and pickups) on the road. Car dealers don't even bother showing cars anymore; it is all crew-cab pickup trucks, which together with SUVs now make up 70% of the car marketplace.

造成死亡人数上升的另一个因素可能是路上越来越多的轻型卡车(suv和皮卡的行业术语)。汽车经销商甚至都懒得展示汽车了;全是敞篷小货车，和suv一起占据了汽车市场70%的份额。

Trends in collision data. Zendrive

Zendrive also doesn't break out whether the collisions involve light trucks or regular cars, but one can just imagine the 75% of collisions that involve hard braking, and what happens when that giant wall of metal hits someone.

Zendrive也没有透露碰撞涉及的是轻型卡车还是普通汽车，但人们可以想象75%的碰撞涉及到硬刹车，以及当这堵巨大的金属墙撞到某人时会发生什么。

These data are all really scary, especially when we think about coming out of the pandemic, with more people cycling and walking, more trucks speeding, more phone usage.

这些数据真的很可怕，特别是当我们想到走出流感大流行，骑自行车和步行的人越来越多，卡车超速行驶，手机使用量越来越多。

Quiet street in Toronto. Lloyd Alter

There have been a lot of changes in cities during this pandemic. In many places, there were bike lanes installed, and quiet streets implemented, all to create more space for pedestrians and cyclists. Where changes weren't made, the rate of crashes and deaths went up.

在这次大流行期间，城市发生了很多变化。在许多地方，安装了自行车道，设置了安静的街道，所有这些都是为了给行人和骑自行车的人创造更多的空间。如果不做出改变，车祸和死亡的比率就会上升。

Who knows what is going to happen when this is all over, if the number of cars on the road will go back to where it was, or stay low because so many people are working from home. If drivers will slow down and stop looking at their phone so much or if they will stay as aggressive. Whether people will get off their bikes and back on to transit. So much has changed, and it is likely that the way our roads are managed is going to have to change too.

谁知道当这一切结束后会发生什么，道路上的汽车数量会回到原来的水平，还是保持低水平，因为太多的人都在家里工作。司机们是否会放慢速度，不再那么频繁地看手机，或者他们是否会保持侵略性。人们是否会从自行车上下来，回到公共交通工具上。发生了如此多的变化，很可能我们的道路管理方式也必须改变。