Ethically Distracted Driving

In his 2007 lecture on human-computer interaction, Bill Muggeridge reflects that culturally the Japanese are prone to pushing buttons since they commute in silent subways while Americans commute in the isolation of their car, were inclined to voice command. This suggested a troubling statistic: distracted driving resulted in 3,2477 deaths, and 391,000 injuries in 2015 (National Center for Statistics and Analysis., 2017) Is creating devices that are easier and more compatible for use while driving ethically defensible from an interactive designer’s viewpoint?
Distracted driving falls into three different categories: visual, manipulative, and cognitive. Hands-free is a means of mitigating visual and manipulative distractions. However, it does