New Delhi, the Third Toughest City to Navigate In the World: Survey

By siliconindia | Thursday, 17 December 2015, 13:04 Hrs

BENGALURU: A global study by automotive technology Drivemode derives New Delhi as the third toughest navigable city across the globe.

More than 50pct of New Delhi drivers use navigation apps like Waze and Google Maps to drive through the roads of Delhi.

The first two cities as revealed by the survey are Manila and Riyadh where 58pct and 56pct of drivers use navigation apps to drive cars.

The same study shows that drivers of Indian cities like Delhi and Mumbai are more distracted than that of U.S. Drivers in these cities call, text or be on phone much lesser than the ones in America and Canada. 27pct drivers of Delhi and 29pct of Mumbai use call and text functions while driving. The same pct in case of Toronto and New York comes to 39pct and 40pct respectively.

The worst offenders for messaging while driving comes from cities like Dallas (19 per cent), Chicago (18 per cent), and LA (18 per cent). Drivers in Bangkok (6 pct) and Riyadh (9 pct).

Bangok has 28pct drivers who talk over phone making the city have chattiest drivers in the world .The lowest call rates has been observed in Riyadh (9pct).

The survey shows that drivers in eastern cities across India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore are more dependent on their smart phone. Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Mumbai, New Delhi, Riyadh and Singapore had 47pct drivers using smartphones and navigation apps during driving.

United States, United Kingdom and Canada are more into multi tasking even while driving. Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, New York, Philadelphia and Toronto browse across five apps while driving. Western drivers used music apps (34 pct), navigation (24 pct), phone (22 pct), and texting or messaging apps (16 pct).

Yo Koga, CEO and co-founder of Drivemode said, "While smartphone use in the car remains a universal experience, we found a distinct divide between the ways Westerners multitask while in the car, and how the rest of the world uses their phones behind the wheel."

The study is conducted by Drivermode, a distraction-free interface apps for drivers. The app is presently functional in 16 cities.