Drivers BUSTED For Rise In This Alarming New Video Disaster

Drivers in the U.S. are found to increasingly be distracted by watching full videos on their phones while they are driving and laws have yet to be put in place to address the danger. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.

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More People Are Watching Videos on Their Phones While Driving. Often, It’s Perfectly Legal.

"Last month, Geoff Glaab was waiting at a stop light in Louisville, Kentucky when he saw a driver two lanes over watching a Youtube video about tearing down a car engine. Glaab could hear the audio clearly because the driver had the volume very high. While the driver was at the light, Glaab could see him looking down at his phone.

Glaab primarily gets around by walking or biking and says he sees “far more than my fair share of distracted drivers.” But he told Motherboard he’s recently noticed an increase in people watching video and FaceTiming while driving.

“I don't know when people began to think this was a good idea,” Glaab said, “but here we are.”

Amazingly, it is perfectly legal for drivers in Kentucky to watch Youtube or any other video while driving. Kentucky only explicitly bans texting while driving and provides exemptions for using GPS functions and punching in phone numbers. It also doesn’t forbid browsing social media or other app-like functions. In a 2015 Courier Journal story about how hard it is to enforce the texting-while-driving ban, state trooper Paul Blanton said, “The way the law is written, you could be driving down the road playing Angry Birds.”"

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