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  • The specific use of phones is barely discussed but worth doing so.

    For example talking on a phone, or even in a car, is highly distracting and delays reactions. Passengers are generally more sensitive to context and weirdly somehow less distracting than phones. So that's something important to consider.

    Listening to the radio is slightly distracting, and likewise listening to the radio played through the phone with notifications off. Doing this is probably fine and we should design roads and cars around the idea that people will listen to music, or sing, or whatever.

    Fiddling with the radio is extremely dangerous, I'm sure we've all been rear ended or nearly so by someone doing it, and probably had a couple of "oops shouldn't have done that" moments ourselves. Likewise fiddling with phones.

    The idea of banning all phone usage is a non starter, but we can probably introduce regulations like phones disabling certain features while cars are in motion but leaving them as useful for navigation and music etc.

  • I can’t believe the amount of people who are arguing over this.

    If you are in control of 1.5 tonnes of something travelling at 60km/h you should;

    • concentrate on what you are doing, exclusively!
    • not get into physical argument with someone else in control of 1.5 tonnes of something.

    If you are emotionally unable to leave your fucking phone alone, you shouldn’t be fucking driving!

    • Its a good thing everyone who shouldnt be driving can just decide to not drive and will not have their lives destroyed as a result!

      • No that is a problem with our society that we can do something about.

        Unfortunately there are too many dinosaurs fighting for FrEeDoM and preventing any progress on Walkable Neighbourhoods.

    • For sure, but also phone have been deliberately engineered on the hardware and software level to be as addicting and habit forming as possible.

      From attention grabbing chimes (not insane, you want to know when you're messaged normally) to notification spam to superstimuli applications. We need to shift some responsibility on manufacturers for exploiting holes in human psychology.

      Anti litter campaigns get you so far, putting bins everywhere gets you further. Work safety videos get you so far, lock out tag out systems take you further

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