Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers

Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by Phillipharryt on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:15PM (#19621188)

Honest question. Why do you feel you need any device when driving? Other than for navigation I suppose. As a confessed user do you actually feel it's important to have access to a device while you drive?

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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by nojvek on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:02AM (#19621990)

I like to be connected I guess. Waiting in traffic sucks, it’s boring as hell. My commute is 1.5 hours each way.

To be honest, I want a self lane following car. Reliably keep distance from car in front, keep the current lane, don’t exceed speed limit. Don’t bumps into objects, stop on traffic lights

5 simple things. I feel like this should be doable reliably in the next decade.

I don’t want to drive. I don’t have another more convenient option.

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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by alexktz on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:05PM (#19626027)

I have all these features in a 2016 Golf GTI (except traffic light one). The future isn't that far away for the masses.

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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by piva00 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:34AM (#19625691)

So you want better public transportation.

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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by austhrow743 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:32AM (#19623346)

Navigation and spotify. I wish there was a way to skip tracks using the volume buttons on the side or something like that to get rid of the need to look at the screen while doing it. Presumably that would drop the dangerous level down to that of fiddling with a radio.

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