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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