Step 1. Open Snapchat (make a burner account if you need to)
Step 2. Open the “Snap Map” - stylized pin icon on the bottom left
Step 3. Pan and zoom to your neighborhood/city and click a colorful region
Step 4. (In my experience) see loads of people obviously recording videos while operating motor vehicles.
I know what you’re thinking - it could be a passenger taking the video; when that is even remotely a possibility, I don’t count that.
Just now it took 36s to find video evidence of an operator using their phone while driving. But I don’t count because the vehicle was at a stop sign.
37s to find a video of a cyclist videoing while cycling. Less severe of an issue, but it is scary for pedestrians when a cyclist is hurtling at you and not looking.
10s later I find three separate videos from three separate cars; differentiated by the instrument cluster and steering wheel top grip.
TLDR in less than a minute I can find fresh video evidence of distracted driving. I have also almost been run over by someone who was texting (or perhaps Snapping).
But ultimately, none of that is a root cause or anything new, just a “fun” observation about how disgustingly reckless some drivers are.