USA sets guidelines for ‘distracting’ car electronics

The U.s. Department of Transportation is working to prepare guidelines for the automotive industry and parts manufacturers. This should ensure that drivers are less distracted by all kinds of electronics in the vehicle.

The guidelines, which for a voluntary character, focus on integrated electronics in the car, reports the BBC. Goal is to be the number of operations necessary for a device to operate to a minimum. Also must be a driver don’t get overwhelmed with visual information. So, a director will not be longer than two seconds can turn away in which to act, and must be devices with a single hand to operate.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an advisory body to the U.s. department of Transportation, must be ‘non-essential functionality” during the drive will be disabled automatically and only become accessible again when the vehicle is stationary. This refers to the organization not only on the disabling of texting or visiting websites during a ride, but also enter an address on a navigation system. Also would a system, no messages are allowed to show more than thirty characters to count.

The current proposals have as yet only covers integrated electronics, such as on-board computers, but the NHTSA wants in the future also guidelines for devices such as mobile phones, tablets and separate devices. According to the advisory, are restrictions needed to make traffic safer. As would drivers who while driving a text preparation, which is a 23 times more likely to perish than a driver who will stay on the road to pay attention to.