# Distracted driving

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/distracted-driving/53259>\
**Category:** Safety\
**Tags:** outback, subaru\
**Created:** [August 9, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/distracted-driving/53259 "2010-08-09T19:54:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![cobalt360](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cobalt360/32/1958_2.png) [@cobalt360](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cobalt360)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/distracted-driving/53259/1 "2010-08-09T19:54:13Z")

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is this really anything new? now that we live in a cyber world of texting and gps, i wonder if we’re only more sensitive to such things because they are new to us  
  
 as long as i can remember, drivers have been eating while driving, putting on makeup, changing the station, yelling at the kids in the back seat, or just drive like idiots

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**Author:** ![Wha-Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@Wha-Who](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Wha-Who)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/distracted-driving/53259/2 "2010-08-09T20:12:38Z")

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Someone said for me to hear that driving with kids in the car is equivalent to .06 BAC.

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**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/distracted-driving/53259/3 "2010-08-09T20:50:22Z")

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This isn’t really a repair or maintenance question.

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**Author:** ![PvtPublic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/pvtpublic/32/13089_2.png) [@PvtPublic](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PvtPublic)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/distracted-driving/53259/4 "2010-08-09T21:08:34Z")

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There is already a “Distracted Driving” discussion here:  
[http://community.cartalk.com/forums/show/55403.page](http://community.cartalk.com/forums/show/55403.page)

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**Author:** ![cobalt360](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cobalt360/32/1958_2.png) [@cobalt360](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cobalt360)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/distracted-driving/53259/5 "2010-08-09T22:02:00Z")

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yeah i know there’s a distracted driving section my internet connection went wonky and my post ended up here can’t you just answer my question?

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**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/distracted-driving/53259/6 "2010-08-10T00:43:07Z")

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I dunno if it’s trying to be national or local, but there’s a law that’s in the works that when someone is in an accident, they can pull your phone records to see if you were on your phone at the time of the accident. It might make for an interesting situation should a drunk driver and a texter hit each other.