Over two in five admit to committing motoring offenses
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Whith the Autumn national road safety campaign coming upon us soon, it is quite timely to look at this survey published by japan.internet.com and carried out by Cross Marketing Inc into mobile phones and hands-free equipment. They interviewed 320 car drivers who also own mobile phone from their internet monitor group, exactly 50:50 male and female as usual, and 25.0% in their twenties, 25.0% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, and 25.0% in their fifties. How often they actually drove cars is not noted, however.
When reading the answers in Q3, remember first that the respondents are being asked to admit if they break the law and second that the response, “Often” (my translation of やや守る, yaya mamoru) is open to interpretation; would people who refrain from calling or mailing out but answer incoming calls select “often” as their reply? My completely unscientific observations would suggest that there’s a lot more scofflaws than just the 7% this survey suggests.
Q1: When driving, in what state is your mobile phone? (Sample size=320)
Drive mode 8.8% Manner mode 27.2% Power off 1.9% Connected to hands-free kit, etc 11.9% Other 0.3% Same settings as usual 50.0% Drive mode is, I believe, a completely silent mode and all calls are directly routed to the answering machine; manner mode is just the buzzer only, no sound.
Whether “same settings as usual” includes people who habitually use manner mode (17.7% according to a recent survey I translated) or not is not stated.
Q2: What hands-free equipment do you have? (Sample size=320, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Wired earphone and microphone 63 19.7% Mobile phone’s built-in hands-free mode 35 10.9% Wireless earphone and microphone 21 6.6% Speakerphone kit 20 6.3% Other 2 0.6% None 203 63.4% Q3: Regarding the change in the law on the first of November 2004 that made talking or viewing the screen of a mobile phone illegal when driving, how often do you observe that law? (Sample size=320)
Always 58.1% Often 35.0% Not very often 5.3% Not at all 1.6%
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