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Originally Posted by polak
I have a hunch that most of the people that are all anti-checking texts at a red light are people whos kids taught them to text and regret it cause now their parents send them annoying and ridiculous texts that take them 10 minutes to type out.
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No. Unlike you some of us have been driving for more than 10 years, and are able to notice differences in driving habits over that time.
Consider yourself lucky that you haven't had to react quickly to something that has happened while your car is stopped. More than once I've had to react to somebody else out of control; and have been able to avoid a serious accident. Sure, I wouldn't have been at fault if that truck had smashed into the back of my car at 70 km/h. However I don't think not being at fault would have given me much comfort as I was slipping in and out of a coma.
You are driving. And unless you are a doctor, on your way to the hospital responding to an emergency, and the attending physician is texting you for what they need to do to keep the patient stable, your text can wait. Nothing you or I do is important enough that it cannot wait.