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you can clearly see drivers in front of you when you drive. its pretty easy to notice head movements and understand what is going on.
Me too. It's terrible and I fully admit I'm a total idiot. Once i was in traffic and the chick behind me would lay on the horn every time I looked down at my phone. Once I figured out what she was doing I tossed the phone onto the passenger seat and she gave me the thumbs up. She was 100% right and more people should obnoxiously police this.
Let me first say that it is obviously not safe so I'm not arguing that. However, studies are routinely made with the desired outcome in mind and can be twisted a thousand ways. I know you likely don't have the answers, but how was the study conducted? What percent of accidents while texting involved teenagers who are probably worse drivers to begin with? Drunk driving usually gets more common the later you get at night while I would suspects the opposite for texting while driving. This is relevant because traffic also decreases, thus lowering the odds of getting into an accident. I would also assume plenty of texting accidents occur during rush hour with rear ending being the biggest culprit. Again, IMO, you shouldn't text and drive, but some times people get crazy with comparisons.
Rigging a car with a red light to alert drivers when to brake, Can and Driver magazine tested how long it takes to hit the brake when sober, when legally drunk at .08, when reading and e-mail, and when sending a text. The results are scary. Driving 70 miles per hour on a deserted air strip Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman was slower and slower reacting and braking when e-mailing and texting.
This does work a lot better and is generally what i try to do, but I still don't feel good about it
Of course studies can be twisted...but I'm in an industry where they do a lot of road transportation and every study out there supports that texting is worse. I understand where your coming from, but just look around when you're driving. I'll be 80% of the people on the road are using their phone at some point when they drive.
Kind of making his point for him here, IMO. The admittedly unscientific test by C&D included another person, a 22 year old intern who was probably better at texting and on an easier to use iPhone. While he still did definitely worse than driving unimpaired and without the phone, texting had very close to the same effect as driving drunk (and they were only right at the .08 BAC level).
I'm easily tops locally and possibly too few percent in the world.
And I've witnessed approximately 0 accidents because of it. Like Cjw, I'm not saying texting while driving isn't harmless, but I also think it's overblown a bit. I'm sure other people here have different experiences and have witnessed accidents.
That's you. A lot of people are terrible drivers AND terrible at doing two things at once. Especially kids who are still learning how to drive like a boss. It's definitely a problem.
How about this comparison:
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