The government has an app made to smartphonegebruik by young people on the bike. Users must have the app turn on before they get on the bikes and if they do then their phone is not use, they may be small prizes to win.
The campaign would be necessary, because according to the government at 18 percent of the bicycle accidents involving young people, smartphonegebruik a cause. Would research show that there are annually dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries by smartphonegebruik in the traffic and people that the smartphone would be 25 times more likely to have accidents.
Those figures seem to be based on quicksand. In various studies says the SWOV, that the government cites as a source, that there is little data on the subject and that the data are often from abroad, or related to other smartphonefuncties, such as call, so the at best going to be rough estimates. “From one of these studies shows that cyclists who say every ride itself to make a call, the phone
answer and listening to music, a factor of 1.4 as high risk on a (reported) accident as the cyclists who never equipment during the cycling use.” That research, however, comes from 2010, when smartphones was much less commonplace than they are today.
To smartphonegebruik against the government and several providers an app created with the name Fietsmodus. That app checks if users have their phone pack. By the app to turn on at the beginning of a bike ride and at the end again to turn off, users can earn points and thereby win prizes like T-shirts and movie tickets. The app for Android has, in any case, access to location to keep track of where users are.
The government is the Fietsmodus app to bring to the attention by means of an advertising campaign in the coming months. Despite the campaign remains unclear what the exact impact of smartphonegebruik on verkeersveligheid. The government claims that a similar campaign last year aimed at motorists makes sense, because more car owners to a parking lot search for to use social media. How big that effect is, let the government in the middle.
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