• blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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    3 months ago

    Given modern cars are obsessed with having the dash be a giant tablet, I don’t see how using a phone or operating your car are any different these days.

    Oh, and giant dash tablets are fucking awful, but if they’re OK, then so should phones be.

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      3 months ago

      Because the GPS isn’t distracting, reading a message is distracting, writing a message is especially distracting.

      Glancing at the screen to see when you’re turning left isn’t.

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        3 months ago

        They’re not just a GPS though are they, they’re used to control everything in the car. Heating, stereo, reading and replying to messages - everything you can do on a phone and you claimed they can’t. The death if physical buttons should be as big a safety concern as using a phone.