A question to the anti texter drivers.

[want my Slimjim]

Uhh, yes, it is, because listening to your radio doesn't require you to LOOK AT your radio and take your eyes off the road and your surroundings.

Radio is audio, it requires ears, deaf people are allowed to drive, they can't hear anything... Texting is visual, it requires eyes, blind people aren't allowed to drive.

It isn't listen to the radio is still a distraction on the road and it messes up with your self awareness of other people around you need hearing when you're driving on the road when your other cars rolling towards you.

[Stelio Kontos]

[want my Slimjim]

Prove it.



This as well.

Been doing it for 10 years, no accidents I'm still here. Other wise I wouldn't be here. Your turn.

[melodramocracy]

Been doing it for 10 years, no accidents I'm still here. Other wise I wouldn't be here. Your turn.

Anecdotes aren't proof. Strike 1.

[Travis B]

Been doing it for 10 years, no accidents I'm still here. Other wise I wouldn't be here.

I wouldn't go that far, it appears you may have suffered some damage to your brain.

[Stelio Kontos]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distracted_driving

Throughout the United States, over 3,000 deaths and 416,000 injuries annually can be attributed to distracted driving.[28] To further illustrate the seriousness of this "epidemic," driving while texting is about 4 times more likely to result in an accident than drinking while driving. Not only is distracted driving more likely to result in an accident, but the risk of injury requiring hospital visitation is 3–5 times greater than the rate for other accidents.

Yeah, it's not dangerous at all.

[Fafnar]

Again tell me how it puts people's lives in danger? It's no more dangerous than listening to your radio.

Actually it is more dangerous than driving while drunk.

For some reason drunk driving is illegal. Wonder why.

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Been doing it for 10 years, no accidents I'm still here. Other wise I wouldn't be here. Your turn.

That is not proof.

[UnkLegacy]

http://www.politifact.com/oregon/sta...ime-it-takes-/

"Sending or reading a text takes your eyes off the road for 4.6 seconds. At 55 mph, that's like driving the length of an entire football field, blindfolded. It's extraordinarily dangerous."

https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data


Science and Stats > Anecdotal

Edit: Here's some bonus Russian dashcam footage. Count how many seconds it takes to crash from when you first notice something is going to happen. Also note that you KNOW something is going to happen. Imagine you're focusing on your phone for 4.6 seconds.
Yeah... you've hit something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60pPA3TCCw

[Fafnar]

I wouldn't go that far, it appears you may have suffered some damage to your brain.

Don't judge. Might've been pre-existing condition. For some reason this doesn't come up on insurance forms tho.

[Allybeboba]

Texting and driving has been proven to be worse than driving drunk.

http://www.bgwlaw.com/community-outr...may-shock-you/
https://quotewizard.com/auto-insuran...-for-motorists

[Moralgy]

You take your eyes off the road to "text" someone and you endanger others. Rule number one of driving, keep your eyes on the road.

[Captain N]

While I'm not going to embed this because it could be considered a gore video I will link it because it shows exactly what can happen if you text and drive.

This was put out a few years ago by the Tredegar Comprehensive School and Gwent Police in South-East Wales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E

[want my Slimjim]

I've almost been run over on pedestrian crossings more time than I can count by people looking down at their phones and only looking up or noticing they nearly killed me after I've kicked the side of their car as they drive past.

Sounds like a town or a city, which makes it harder which would make no sense to do it there vs out in the country. Just because experience doesn't mean everyone else has the same. you most likely have had not almost been run over by people who text and drive more than people who almost run you over more doing the same thing.

[Allybeboba]

Been doing it for 10 years, no accidents I'm still here. Other wise I wouldn't be here. Your turn.

There are people with tens of DUIs and are "still here". Your turn...

[Detheavn]

It isn't listen to the radio is still a distraction on the road and it messes up with your self awareness of other people around you need hearing when you're driving on the road when your other cars rolling towards you.

While listening to your surroundings may be a thing, texting removes visuals from the equation, which can lead to a lot more problems than listening to a radio.

Been doing it for 10 years, no accidents I'm still here. Other wise I wouldn't be here. Your turn.

Texting while driving isn't a skill, it's a game of luck. If you have been doing it for 10 years, consider yourself and everyone on your path very lucky.

[Stelio Kontos]

OP's been given plenty of sources.

He's choosing to be willfully ignorant. Considering how he self-identifies, that's not entirely surprising.

[want my Slimjim]

You are what is called a statistical outlier. I knew a girl who never stopped at stops signs after midnight. She didn't see the point the chances of another car being on a back street that late at night was really low. She got in a wreck a week later.

It's not that you are endangering yourself I could careless. It's your careless of could maim or kill someone else. People have trouble walking and texting, this isn't even something a rational person with critical thinking would even want to discuss.

There are more outliers than not. Around 99.999% of people who text and drive never hurt anyone. If anything that makes her the outlier. So why should I get fucked over cause she fucked up?

[Mormolyce]

Seriously? The risks of distracted driving are well researched and documented.

Maybe start here.

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafe...ing/index.html

[Stelio Kontos]

Around 99.999% of people who text and drive never hurt anyone.

I assume you have a source for that, other than your ass, of course.