# 'Reading This While You Drive Could Increase Your Risk of Crashing by 10' **URL:** \ **Category:** Safety\ **Created:** [February 25, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618 "2016-02-25T00:14:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/1 "2016-02-25T00:14:09Z")
‘By analyzing millions of miles of driving data collected over three years the team found that dialing a phone was the most dangerous distraction, increasing a drivers’ chance of crashing by 12 times.’ [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/science/driving-distractions-study.html](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/science/driving-distractions-study.html) ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/2 "2016-02-25T00:58:27Z")
I am beginning to think the OP has the right screen name. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/3 "2016-02-25T01:21:19Z")
Gee, I thought having sex while driving was more dangerous than dialing the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/4 "2016-02-25T01:31:50Z")
@keith having sex WITH someone, or alone? ---
**Author:** ![BillRussell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/billrussell/32/3179_2.png) [@BillRussell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BillRussell)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/5 "2016-02-25T01:32:52Z")
Dunno, why would anyone pick a screen name that makes everyone distrust everything you post? ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/6 "2016-02-25T01:37:40Z")
"@keith having sex WITH someone, or alone? " I don’t think it matters. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/7 "2016-02-25T01:39:13Z")
I generally base my judgment by the quality of the post rather than the screen name. ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/8 "2016-02-25T22:38:21Z")
having sex WITH someone, or alone? Gee, combine both distractions–phone sex while driving! ---
**Author:** ![WheelsOnTheRoad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@WheelsOnTheRoad](https://community.cartalk.com/u/WheelsOnTheRoad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reading-this-while-you-drive-could-increase-your-risk-of-crashing-by-10/92618/9 "2016-04-06T11:33:27Z")
I take issue with the word “dialing.” When someone says dialing a phone, this sounds to me specifically like dialing a number. Like the phone you had when you were a kid that you had to put your finger in the hole and move the dial around to the correct number, and if you screwed up would have to hang up and start all over again. I would use the words typing and browsing instead, since texting while driving and reading texts is actually the danger they are referring to. Who even dials a number anymore anyway? Don’t people all voice command call or just go to saved contacts and hit that limited distraction single call button? I read the article and know they mean cell phone distractions in general and not actually dialing a number, but still…this word is archaic.