By now, you have heard all manner of gloom and doom about Generation Z. They have no career ambitions except to be social media influencers, or maybe even just to be devastatingly beautiful in the privacy of their own living quarters. Even though they are obsessed with their looks, they have no interest in romantic relationships. Even though they are afraid of their own shadow, they relentlessly harass other people online for the most trivial reasons. They do not care about material possessions, least of all cars that pollute the environment, not that they could afford them anyway; therefore, fewer young people have driver’s licenses now than a generation ago.
Car insurance companies, however, have more faith in Generation Z than talk radio hosts do. If you are a young adult, and a Baby Boomer could not resist opening a notification on their cell phone as they approached the intersection where you had the right of way, contact a Santa Fe car accident lawyer.
Driving Provides Young People a Respite From Their Devices
According to a report recently published on the Lemonade website, Generation Z is doing surprisingly well at driving. In typical Gen Z fashion, though, they are not convinced of it. Only 36% of Generation Z respondents to Lemonade’s survey said that they thought their peers were safe drivers. All the older generations had higher confidence in their peers’ driving ability.
The police reports tell a different story, though. 76% of Generation Z drivers have made it through their first year of driving without getting a speeding ticket or causing an accident. This is a higher percentage than any other generation than Baby Boomers, but before Baby Boomers start bragging, we should consider that traffic enforcement was much more lenient when Baby Boomers were the youngest drivers on the road.
Best of all, Gen Z does a better job of keeping their devices under control when they drive than other generations do. More than half of Gen Z drivers keep their phones in the car’s cupholder or in a phone holder attached to the dashboard or air conditioning vent. Older drivers tend to keep the phone on their lap or on the passenger seat, making them more likely to reach for their phones when driving. Age is not the only factor that affects where drivers keep their phones during the drive; it also matters whether the car has the technology to connect the phone to the car’s audiovisual system. Even better, Gen Z is the generation where the greatest share of drivers set their phones to a distraction-free mode, such as CarPlay or Drive Mode, while driving. Perhaps this is because Gen Z has never driven when smartphones were not ubiquitous, so safe phone use behind the wheel comes naturally to them.
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Sources
https://www.lemonade.com/car/explained/the-gen-z-driving-shift-you-didnt-see-coming
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