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Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? (www.nytimes.com)
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[-] snooggums@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

As someone who has driven both for decades, manuals only require two hands when accelerating and decelerating. While that does discourage holding something to an extent, I can easily eat a hamburger and shift with the same hand and would imagine a phone would be even easier to hold since there is no risk of dripping ketchup on the shift.

Wouldn't know though, since I don't hold a phone while driving either.

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