Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying

Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by doc_gunthrop on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:05PM (#21715251)

> You can be texting and driving stick at the same time easily.

I've driven stick shift for over a decade and this is completely false.

> You don’t constantly need your hand on the shifter.

Constantly? No. Frequently? Yes.

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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by tzs on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:59PM (#21715872)

You don't need your hand on the phone constantly to text, so I don't see why you couldn't both shift and text.

My first car didn't have cup holders, and I remember managing to drive while holding a cup of soda or a shake when bring food back from fast food drive-throughs, holding the cup the entire trip. It was stick and I had no problem doing this.

With a phone, I'd expect you could just set it down between messages, which should make it easier than carrying those cups was. Setting those down risked spilling them.

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