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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,ca.driving Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 09:32:01 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <ead2dfa7-e997-a0e1-26d7-9b783a2a9bd3@invalid.nospam> References: <v2ssjo$ddd$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <v2v70b$pkq2$1@solani.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 15:31:40 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="407ff4b145f164375095ebf400e8997d"; logging-data="3607557"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19nSr773RyoYAiLK2AZUaEhL9chM1/ILEQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8otnQL4JOwtdFAjupXMuYOfYswY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <v2v70b$pkq2$1@solani.org> Bytes: 2328 On 5/26/2024 7:38 AM, badgolferman wrote: > Drivers using their cellphones tend not to move with the flow of traffic, > instead going slower and keeping excessive space in front of them. This has > the effect of pissing off people behind them who try their damnest to get > around them. Distracted drivers can’t stay in their lane, leading to other > drivers having to avoid them. Distracted drivers fail to go when the > traffic light turns green and cause cars farther back to miss the light > cycle and wait again for the green light. There are many more examples, but > you get the picture. Surely you can add more. > I see that constantly. It used to be that someone who drove slow and/or erratic was almost certainly elderly, so I'd try to be patient. These days it's almost always the case that they're simply on the phone. Though yesterday I saw a lot of such people doing things like stopping to pull a u-turn or slowing down at each side street. I realized that most of them were tourists or non-locals in town for a Memorial Day cookout. What a relief. :)