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What a childish, fallacious argument ...

Parent wasn't talking about answering calls while on the road. Parent was referring to missing a call. If they need to have their phone on, that's completely reasonable. Maybe they're even an emergency driver. It doesn't mean they won't pull over when there's a call.

Having the phone on doesn't mean talking on the phone while driving. In fact, I'm pretty sure siri is disabled during phone calls, so this is a feel-good farce with very dangerous implications. One that's more likely to cause crashes than prevent them. Thankfully this happened in a low density country with safe roads.



>Parent wasn't talking about answering calls while on the road. Parent was referring to missing a call.

Yeah, because they're gonna pull over on the side on the road to answer it.

In a world where people are even TEXTing while driving, pulling over to answer a phone is what most people would do, right?


> In a world where people are even TEXTing while driving, pulling over to answer a phone is what most people would do, right?

Maybe you only know completely insensitive and inconsiderate jerks, but most of the drivers I know abhor texting/calling while driving. Don't turn your problem into everybody's problem.


What does it matter what "most people" would do? We're talking about what Matt3o12_ would do.




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