Study: 1 In 3 Americans Text And Drive

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128. No it is not a slightly different position.

Even if I accept the veracity that any and all driving is inherently dangerous from the start, then risk management demands that you do actions that minimize that risk even further NOT adding actions that maximize that risk even more.

So, yes, fighting with a spouse, texting, eating a sloppy joe, and putting on panty-hose are all actions that increase risk and have been statistically proven to increase the likelihood of a vehicular accident occurring.

Therefore, avoiding all of those above stated actions plus adding other smart defensive driving techniques like maintaining safe car distances, adjusting brake times according to weather conditions, waiting until you are safely stopped to change a CD, etc. decrease the risks and increase safety.

Your assumption that texting while driving, which has been proven thus far to be an unsafe action to do while driving a car is simply unskillful risk management. You are adding risk to an inherently risky endeavor and guessing, because really that is all you are doing ultimately, that because you have been able to do it up till now without an accident, that you will be able to continue to do so in the future.

You are a risk taker, and I stand by my initial assessment given your communication here. Furthermore, you are one of those individuals who is increasing risk for others not just yourself while driving because you erroneously have faith in your own superiority take risky actions (in your case texting) while driving.