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Not just smartphones, dashboards with flat touchscreens. Now, you have to look at the dashboard. Prior, you manipulated all the controls by touch.
Honestly though, I don’t understand the smartphone thing. Set your playlist, book, podcast and go. Leave if alone until you park. Why is that hard?
I'm with you. Maybe I'm getting old, but I still treat texting/messaging as asynchronous communication. It's not a "live" conversation, and if I'm driving or doing something else in between messages, then it's going to be a bit before I can respond again.
I like texting well enough, but it’s also a way to leave a message without all the steps of voicemail. Agreed, face to face conversation is best.
It's hard because people are addicted to their phones. Tech companies have spent billions making social media as addictive as possible. Americans also have no other choice of transportation. If you want to go somewhere, you generally must drive
Again, I don’t get it. For starters, driving is a great time to reset and decompress. More than simply walking through a doorway. It’s time to purge your brain of anything sordid in your day, like work. Distance happens, physically and mentally.
You leave work, there’s a good book, or good music, you, and the road. Why would you let calls or texts interrupt that?
I get a bit annoyed if I tell someone I'm driving to them, they text me while they know I'm driving, and they get upset with me if I don't answer before I get there.
I am driving! That takes my full attention. Agh.