If smartphone is safe to use while driving, what about the media system?

The use of mobile phone while driving, or keeping it in hand while driving, is legally condemned in most European countries. The main reason for this is that drivers have to turn their eyes towards their smartphone screen, not to look at the road for a while, respectively.

What, then, about touch screens that have become an integral part of the design of most new vehicles? Even where springs still exist, or some other type of physical command for movement within the system's menu, there is also the possibility of selecting touch command, which means turning the view off the road, writes the Automobile Portal.ba.

The younger the vehicle, the more complicated the system and operation with it, states Ian Jack, of the Canadian automotive association that The Canadian Press quotes.

According to the report published by Utah University and the AAA Foundation, the search for a certain function in the complex media system could last up to 48 seconds. This time is comparable to sending a message or sending social networks to smart, which is illegal.

The problem is also beginning to be recognized by law - enforcement bodies in some Western lands. So Tesla, for example, was long ago forced to block the possibility of playing games while driving.