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Despite Well Known Risks, Survey Finds Most People Use Smartphones While Driving (cbslocal.com)

Posted by msmash on from the playing-with-fire dept.

From a report: Everyone knows it's dangerous, but a lot of people are still doing it -- driving while distracted. In a survey of 3-million motorists, almost 9 out of 10 admitted to using their smartphone behind the wheel. According to a report by Zendrive, which studied device use among 3.1 million drivers over 5.6 billion miles of driving, in 88 percent of trips, drivers made at least some use of their phones. On average, they spent more than three-minute on the phone.

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  1. Re:They could have done better with the data by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I start a phone call while I'm at a stop light and continue with it I'm really not posing any additional danger to anyone.

    Agreed. In fact I'm entering this message right now while driving. I do it all the time and nothing has ev

  2. Re:I find this thoroughly unsurprising by omfglearntoplay · · Score: 3, Funny

    Agreed. Cell phones are too prolific... hands free tech should be in all modern vehicles. I will say that dialing should be made better. In my car, I click a button the steering wheel then with another button on the wheel I scroll and pick one of my 6 main contacts. If they aren't on that list, I can't be bothered with it. Voice activation is nice in theory, but never works for phone calls in my car the way it should. Strangely enough voice navigation works well enough to use.

  3. Re:They could have done better with the data by dfm3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    See, that just goes to show you how risky it is to use a phone while driving... AC managed to accidentally tap both the Preview AND submit buttons before they finished typing!