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The “driving selfies” phenomenon in Portland


http://petapixel.com/2016/08/11/sudy-reveals-states-take-drivingselfies/

Here’s the link to that study. We’re not in the top 10, but also not in the bottom 10.

I was curious about how this phenomenon was playing out in Portland so I did some searching on Instagram…

I only had to go back two weeks to find pictures taken by drivers on the Marquam Bridge:


There are tons of pictures tagged ‘Hawthorne Bridge’, I had to go back perhaps a few hundred photos before I found a picture that was obviously taken by a driver from a moving car (there were some “hey, the bridge is up” pictures).

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I had to go back 4 weeks to find any from the Ross Island Bridge.


I only had to go back a week for the Fremont Bridge:


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