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People are going to be on their phone at 70 MPH no matter what do-dads are in their car. The best we can do is take the human element out of the equation.

• ghaff 9y ago
  >People are going to be on their phone at 70 MPH no matter what do-dads are in their car Somewhat disagree. It's not a distraction panacea (based on various studies) but if we had voice recognition and natural language processing in cars that really worked well, there would be a whole lot less temptation to look down at a screen or type. Not justifying people who do so. Just observing that better tech would largely eliminate any reason to do so.
  • creepydata 9y ago
    Well I was alive before cell phones and I'll tell you people will find plenty of reason to not pay attention at 70MPH.
    • ghaff 9y ago
      Fair enough. Although I suspect that the level of distraction has gone up.
    • insta724 9y ago
      The MPG chart is of median MPG among production vehicles, not mean, and not mean weighted by person-miles driven. https://insta724.com/ https://insta724.com/