Revealing video shows how much young drivers use phones while behind the wheel
Young drivers have been confronted with evidence they use their phones while driving much more than they believe.
Revealing footage shows young people talking, texting and taking selfies while driving – coming as a reality check for the drivers.
Five young Australians participated in the filming of the documentary It’s People Like Us, with the footage gathered over three weeks.
“By the end of today, most of us will have checked our phones over 150 times; on the toilet, in the car, at the dinner table, even during sex,” the film’s website states.
“But, have we ever stopped to ask ourselves - is there a time and a place?”
Before filming begun, all drivers asserted they never used their mobile phone when they were behind the wheel.
It did not take long for those beliefs to be completely disproven with the footage coming as a shock to the willing participants.
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The drivers are driven to distraction, continually scrolling through text messages and taking pictures and selfies, with one woman taking a snap of her baby in a car seat.
“How much I'm doing it while my baby's behind, and she's watching all of it, so what she's learning and what she's seeing,” the mother said.
“And second of all, if anything happens, it's not just me, so it's confronting for sure.
Eva Orner, the film’s Oscar-winning Australian director, was spurred into making the film after police pinged her for using a phone while she was behind the wheel.
Victoria’s Transport Accident Commission funded the documentary.
