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by oil25 2403 days ago
What's the penalty? It ought to be equivalent to a DUI, given the impairment is similar if not worse from phone distraction at the wheel.
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Driving drunk is safer than texting. With DUI, at least your reaction time is just scaled by a certain amount. Whereas when inputting something with a touchscreen, your road attention completely disappears for imperceptible spurts of time.