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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by trillic on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:00PM (#21715193)
Hot take: I'd rather share the road with someone completely focused who's slightly above the legal limit, than someone who is sober and distracted.
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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by Enginerrrd on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:06PM (#21715273)
>completely focused who's slightly above the legal limit

This may not be possible. One of the effects of alcohol on cognition is that it increases distractability while simultaneously making you less aware of it's occurrence which is a compounding issue.

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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by lmilcin on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:25PM (#21715506)
That's right, any amount of alcohol reduces awareness and increases reaction time.

I think what the poster meant is that while a person driving under influence might be slightly distracted (there is full spectrum of being under influence) the person fidgeting with a phone is always very distracted.

You can't be only slightly distracted when you are not looking at the road but reading or replying to message.

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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by dasil003 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:21PM (#21715465)
It’s also not possible to make a completely sober person be at peak focus and attention all the time as they drive.
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