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Just a few statements here: Your form of texting while driving was likely safer than the alternatives. Your form of texting while driving was less safe than n
by munk-a 7y ago
Just a few statements here:
Your form of texting while driving was likely safer than the alternatives.
Your form of texting while driving was less safe than not texting.
Do not text and drive.
There are plenty of people who have texted without incident, that doesn't reflect a particular merit to the way you texted it's just simple statistics. If you touch an electric stove top hot enough to boil water you'll be burned, but if you touch it a short while after turning it on you may be burned. Texting and driving is not an instant guarantee of an accident so don't mistake your luck for skill.
- asdf21 7y ago.
- munk-a 7y agoYou may be a quite skilled driver, I'm, personally, a very distractable person in open environments, so I've never pursued a license to drive. The choice to text and drive is an absolute malus on your driving safety, being in a car with you may be safer than being in a car with other folks when they are fully focused, clear minded and sober - but you're accepting an additional risk and it is putting yourself and others in danger. When you text and drive you lower your awareness and a situation you may have been able to escape with full focus may become a fatal accident, studies have shown that texting does significantly impact driving and not only because of looking away to a screen - it also diverts your attention to consider the environment which can result in slower reaction times. It may very well be that your skill at driving is sufficient to avoid an accident while texting that a normal person couldn't avoid at full focus but, your reaction speed is lowered and if you text and drive it will reinforce that being a socially acceptable activity and lead other people to text and drive that may have fatal accidents themselves.