Want to Keep Your Employees from Texting Behind the Wheel?
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18 Jan 2024 03:21:44 am.
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Harvard researchers Emily Weinstein and Carrie James were motivated by the question of what occupies teenagers' time on their smartphones. In their quest for answers, they discovered that the reality is much more intricate than most adults perceive. Through a comprehensive survey of over 3,500 American teenagers, they explored various aspects such as the reasons behind sexting and the ways in which teens handle friendship challenges in the online realm.Their research has left a lasting impression on me. It is remarkable how, as adults, we often provide futile guidance and simply label teen phone use as an addiction. Consequently, parents are overlooking valuable chances to support and assist teenagers, according to their findings wifi blocker.
Again and again from teens that they don't want to feel dysregulated when it comes to their technology use, and that they actually have pretty impressive, even amazing awareness of what tech habits they have that are serving them and the tech habits that they wish they could change. We had so many quotes from teens about just this feeling of, I don't know why, but this app, TikTok is running my life, or I keep falling asleep on social media and I wish I didn't. And what we found that's actually so powerful about that recognition is that adults often get really stuck in this position of being like a referee when it comes to teens technology use, where we're just blowing the whistle when kids do something wrong or calling teens out when they misstep. We get stuck in this position.
Want to Keep Your Teens (or Employees) from Texting Behind the Wheel?
It is my belief that a growing number of individuals engage with GPS applications while operating a vehicle, thereby presenting distinct distracted driving hazards that vary depending on the specific app being used and the placement of the device.
I like the texting-blocking angle myself, but I’m leery of the general data-blocking one. What about apps that use differential GPS? (Satellite plus base station data-path corrections, for greater precision.) What about streaming audio apps, like Audible or Spotify? (I use both on extended drives, and I’d hate to tell either a teen or employee she couldn’t, just to block texting). What if the driver wants to hand her smartphone off to someone else in the car to use for some data-related function, say looking up a restaurant or fiddling with the GPS or just checking email or text messages on behalf of the driver? (My wife did this for me for over a year whenever I drove, until she got her own smartphone.)
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