• skizzles@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I agree with this too, except that last bit. Making a car manual has a near zero affect on people’s use of phones when driving.

    I say this as someone that used to use T9 to text when driving a manual car. Mind you that was 20 ish years ago when I was a stupid teenager, but there really was no difference between manual/automatic and using my phone when driving other than the added step of shifting.

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      2 months ago

      To be fair, texting via t9 on physical buttons was way safer than fumbling around on a touch screen. I dit it blindly all the time.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      Fellow former T9 texter here. I had one or two near misses as a teenager and cut that shit right out.