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> “It looks like you are driving.” I lie to my phone. This is such a shitty, irresponsible thing to do. People die every day from car accidents and this author

• clairity 6y ago
  agreed, there is a kia commercial that also disturbingly normalizes this kind of behavior (the driver and her friends are playing with phones, as the narrator dings a cowbell to simulate the driver monitor warning), the implicit message being that you can continue being distracted, because your car will bail you out (it won't). then we try to regulate speed as a poor, misdirected proxy for accidents to ameliorate ourselves, because most folks don't really want to decontaminate the driving environment to be as dstraction-free as possible, which would actually reduce accidents and save lives.
• qzervaas 6y ago
  The author is painting a picture of behaviour that a large number of people engage in. Separately, when I read this paragraph, it prompted me to check my “DND while driving” settings, which for some reason were no longer enabled. Authors can write about controversial / bad things.
• nicbou 6y ago
  This is disturbingly common. As a motorcyclist, I sit a little above most drivers, and I also have to be a little more alert. I catch an alarming number of drivers on their phones. Delivery drivers are the worst offenders. Fortunately, most drivers only touch their phones at red lights, and I honestly don't mind that as much.