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Originally Posted by flameswin
Maybe it's just my demographic or the people I hang out with, but I honestly don't know anyone who doesn't answer their phone or make calls while they're driving. I never hear "sorry I didn't pick up earlier, I was driving in my car".
It's just weird, on the internet, it seems that 99% of people in these types of threads are ready to throw any pieces of **** that would dare touch a phone in a car, in jail and throw away the key. Or are looking for very harsh penalties.
Yet in real life, it seems hard to find anyone that thinks that way, unless thay're just quiet about it, but it just seems like most people talk on their phones and drive and small minority don't, and are vehemently against it, then you come on the internet and it's the complae opposite.
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I have never hesitated to answer my phone. I just try and keep it short because I know that it can be distracting.
That being said I've never been driving in unsafe conditions when my phone rang. If I was on an icy/snowy road with blizzarding conditions I'd probably think twice about answering.
It is not unsimilar to threads about drinking and driving. Stats suggest that something like 1 in 4 people do it but reading CP you'd think it is more rare than a Canuck that doesn't dive.