Should I call out my friends for using their phones while driving?
by Emma Brockes from Technology | The Guardian on (#3FRX2)
There's no question that 'distracted driving' can be deadly - so why are so many of us reluctant to take a stand against it?
A friend drove me to work the other day and, while she was driving, picked up a call on her cellphone. It was a short conversation and after she hung up, she apologized, but the episode left me feeling uncomfortable. Should I have called her out or am I overreacting?
I suspect you don't need me to tell you that your nervousness is well-founded: the statistics on car accidents and phone use are incontrovertible. In 2015, approximately 3,477 people were killed, and 391,000 were injured, in car crashes caused by "distracted driving".
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