The important part that social media companies focus on is making sure they cannot be held liable. Narrowing in on ensuring their app is minimally legally and financially at fault for these phenomena. Like that is the utmost corporate priority. If you extrapolate these values, it is not crazy to think humanity's future is grim.
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.