What makes talking on the phone while driving more dangerous than talking to another passenger in your car? Does talking on speaker-phone mitigate any of this risk?
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When I was a kid there was this ‘edutainment’ game about the dangers of messing with your phone while driving, don’t remember where it was or who was running it but I remember the experience itself pretty vividly
basically it was a driving game where you would take damage if you hit anything but you had this ‘phone’ that would show random button combinations that you had to press on it, if you took too long to put in the code you would also take damage, too much damage and game over
people were trying it and taking turns and everybody was either crashing into stuff or ignoring the phone, I got on it and instead of holding the phone down and looking down at it I just held it up in front of me so I could see the game screen behind/around the phone and played without crashing until the game basically just timed out
it just always stuck with me that so many people look *down* at their phones instead of forwards, just intuitively, not just while driving either, I’ve seen people walk into stuff because they were using their phone
so it was interesting to see the comments here, personally I wouldn’t have thought there would be any difference other than having one hand taken by a phone
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