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    7 days ago

    I question why this person still has a valid license if they care so little about everyone else that they couldn’t stay in their own lane.

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    I got pulled over in the 90’s for eating a bag of chips. I never left my lane, but every time I reached over into the passengers seat I would swerve a little.

    It was late afternoon. I saw the cop behind me. I was doing the speed limit, but he was kind of close. I just figured he’d go around at some point. no lights, no siren. Finally, BULLHORN: PULL OVER.

    K, so I pull over. Driver gets out and stays by the door hand on weapon, Passenger walks up to my drivers door, license and reg, yada yada. Have you been drinking? no. Why didn’t you pull over? I just did. Why didn’t you pull over back after the stoplight when we turned the lights on? What lights?

    He looked back. No forward lights on.

    Ohhh shit… umm he’s a trainee… Look, we pulled you over because you were swerving a bit

    Ahh, sorry, I was starving points at chip bag

    oh, ok, just be careful.

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    • Nine people in the United States are killed every day in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver.

    • In the United States, over 3,100 people were killed and about 424,000 were injured in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2019.

    • About 1 in 5 of the people who died in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2019 were not in vehicles―they were walking, riding their bikes, or otherwise outside a vehicle.

    Source: https://www.cdc.gov/distracted-driving/about/index.html

    Yes, it does happen all the time. And the consequences are not always just a ticket.

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    7 days ago

    I had a co-worker get a warning once for eating leftover pizza. I’ve seen my mom eat the messiest sandwich and get off with a warning. It really depends on how many kids you have to drop off. No one fucks with a hungry momma bear.

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    This is literally me, I’ll eat tacos while driving.

    Hell last week I ate a full pizza while driving on the highway and at some point I mentally stopped when I realized I had eaten it all and said “this might be problematic”

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    and this is why people that eat vegetables live longer, it’s far less distracting to eat a carrot or apple than a juicy roricery chicken.

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        People like this deem themselves great drivers, and everyone around them can’t drive. The officer should have taken his license instead.

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          These are the people you see doing 20 under the limit in the middle lane for 5 minutes (because they’re looking at their phone) while everyone passes them, then suddenly accelerate as they realize they haven’t been paying attention

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            You actually see that a lot. You’re behind a car and it’s slow and swirling a lot. Suddenly they speed up when they realise that they haven’t checked the road in a mile or two.

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              Yep. When they’re acting really weird I try to glance at the driver as I pass them. Often see them looking down, or even just looking at their phone on the dashboard

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                The weirdest “new trend” i’ve seen is that people use their phones to navigate and their car entertainment system to watch tv shows.

                When i started driving i thought that changing a radio channel or something can be pretty distracting. Little did i know that people in the future are worse drivers and they watch tv when they drive

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            This dude is definitely driving a truck, he’s got a camo hat on the dash, he’s taking photos of a receipt while driving. And he posts shit like this

            This dude is doing 90 on the highway and switching lanes last minute while tailgating people, he’s definitely not cruising below the speed limit

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        He even took the picture while still driving. Imagine veing crippled for the rest of your life because some fatass needs to eat a whole chicken while driving.