This city is the third toughest city to navigate in the world and it is in India

Over 50% of the drivers in New Delhi use navigation apps such as Waze and Google Maps while driving as Delhi is the third toughest city to navigate in the world, according to a global study by automotive technology company Drivemode.

Manila and Riyadh beat Delhi to be in the first and second spot where 58 per cent and 56 per cent of drivers respectively use navigation apps.

Findings of the study also show that over one-fourth (27 per cent) of drivers in New Delhi and 29 per cent of drivers in Mumbai call and text while driving, in contrast to two-fifths (40 per cent) of drivers from Toronto and 39 per cent of New York & LA drivers.

Drivers in Mumbai and New Delhi listen to music for only 7 and 9 minutes respectively during their journey. In contrast, drivers in Chicago, New York, and Riyadh enjoy singing with their favourite song devoting 21, 18, and 16 minutes to music respectively

Some additional findings from other global cities show the worst offenders for messaging while driving comes from Dallas (19 per cent), Chicago (18 per cent), and LA (18 per cent). Drivers in Bangkok (6 percent) and Riyadh (9 percent) rarely text while driving. Bangkok, however, has some of the chattiest drivers in the world with the highest percentage of drivers who talk on the phone (28 percent). In comparison, Riyadh drivers have the lowest (9 percent) rate of calls while driving.

"While smartphone use in the car remains a universal experience, we found a distinct divide between the way Westerners multitask while in the car, and how the rest of the world uses their phones behind the wheel," Yo Koga, CEO and co-founder of Drivemode told ET. He added, "These regional patterns in app usage help to highlight the role smartphones play in different cultures."

In the Eastern cities studied - Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Mumbai, New Delhi, Riyadh and Singapore - almost half of drivers (47 per cent) used navigation apps such as Waze and Google Maps. Music was the second most popular function among drivers in the East (30 per cent), followed by calling (17 percent). Only six per cent of drivers in eastern cities texted during a drive.

Drivers across the seven Western cities studied - Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, New York, Philadelphia and Toronto - were found to be perpetual multi-taskers while driving, juggling up to five apps during their trips. Western drivers used music apps most often (34 percent), followed by navigation (24 percent), phone (22 percent), and texting or messaging apps (16 percent).

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