• bonenode@piefed.social
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    5 months ago

    I seriously hope OP has stopped to take that pic and didn’t just pull out the phone while driving to do this.

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      5 months ago

      You’re still driving a car while stopped mate. This is the reasoning that leads to people drinking while they are stopped. They aren’t technically driving… but it’s obviously not safe and shouldn’t be done.

      Yet people condone it? Fucking hell.

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            5 months ago

            Do you think being stopped means it’s safe to use your phone behind the wheel?

            How are you supposed to make an evasive maneuver if the car behind you can’t stop? Or if someone starts crossing the road and is now laying on the road from falling?

            • Hope you aren’t using a phone to send this. Who knows what could happen during that time. Maybe someone puts the big red launch nukes button under your foot and you start nuclear winter when you go to stand up.

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                5 months ago

                That’s obviously something that’s impossible to happen.

                If you think that neither of those are possible, or countless others… you’re a hazard on the road. There is absolutely no reason to use your phone while stopped, anything can happen, and you won’t notice while you’re sending that text.

                The life of you or someone else isn’t more important than whatever is on your phone.

                You seem to think getting rear ended while stopped at a light is an impossibility… that’s clearly not true and there’s plenty of statistics to support this is entirely possible and does happen. Now, you can also avoid the collision if you’re paying attention and have space. But obviously that can’t happen if you’re too preoccupied with your phone, instead of the road. Like you’re supposed to. At all times.