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Originally Posted by gstelmack
The difference between, say, eating or changing the radio and using the cell phone or driving drunk is that eating / changing the radio tend to be short bursts of inattention while cell phone use and drunk driving impair you for long stretches. That's why the odds go way up.
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Obviously, individual habits will vary wildly on this, but last time I heard data about it, the average phone call was on the order of 3 minutes.