What is Digi-Necking?
Digi-necking is rubbernecking for the digital age; instead of just slowing down to look at an accident, rubberneckers today can photograph it with a digital camera, cellphone, or another device, thereby having a memory to take along with them. Just like rubbernecking, digi-necking can be very dangerous, and it is also considered rude in some regions of the world. Traffic engineers in particular are concerned with this evolution in the time-honored practice of rubbernecking, because it can lead to problems with the flow of traffic around an accident. Rubbernecking, of course, is a phenomenon in which passersby and bystanders gawk at the scene of an accident. For first responders, rubbernecking can be potentially dangerous and irritating, because it interferes with their ability to handle and secure the scene. Rubbernecking can also lead to accidents, because a rubbernecker might be so distracted by a gory scene that he or she doesn’t notice the car in front has stopped, slowed, or chang
