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It is as dangerous as:
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I'd argue it's actually much worse than all of the things you cited. Those don't involve navigation through a UI which involves the coordination of looking for small buttons, hitting them, and looking at the screen to see what happened.
(Not that I support any of the other activities, mind you.)
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It does not surprise me that, here in the US in spite of those pathetic speed limits, there are as many fatalities as in Germany where Autobahn have long segments that do not have any and you can drive at 150 Mph and more.
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And what does this have to do with the conversation at hand?
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Instead of spending millions in useless studies like this teach people how to drive and improve quality of the roads; things will change.
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How do you propose to teach people how to drive better? Most road tests (certainly the ones in NY) aren't a free pass. You're making a big assumption that people care. They don't. They take driving for granted.
Road quality is a different issue; the roads here
are terrible. But the amount of money spent on this study is a microscopic drop in the bucket compared to the cost of repairing roads, especially in a place like NYC where the roads are torn up by huge trucks every single day. If you're arguing that it is blatantly obvious, perhaps. But the study points out that texting, in particular, has significantly higher risk than
other forms of car multitasking.
--janak