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I haven't read every post in here, but the "being young while driving while messing with phone" trope needs to be drug outside and shot. Over, and over, and over, and over, and OVER again in Katy, I see adults scrolling through Instagram/Facebook while driving *with* their kids in the car. I've never pulled past any of the high schools in the area and seen a kid on their phone, but I constantly see adults on their phones 50 yards out of their driveways, or before they've even left the preschool parking lot, etc.

A seventeen year old messing around with their phone is bad, but much less common than watching adults do it. Teenagers are already well documented in their complete inability to judge consequences, risk etc., and that's scientifically proven. The adults driving their teenagers around while doing it are inexcusable, as adults brains are supposed to have fixed their risk management wiring.

While technological functions are nice to have as an *option* (you know who jailbreaks their phones more often than teens? Adults. Teens don't really care, their parents are too technologically limited to prevent them from installing Snapchat, so why bother?) Americans (at least in the south) have a total reluctance to use the horn. Watching the person in front of you text six seconds after the light turns green, and you just stew, rather than honk? You're part of the problem. It doesn't need to be an angry honk, but even a quick toot 10% of the time you encounter this would be helpful. The "cocoon" effect of people believing they are invisible to others while the windows are rolled up is well documented, which is one reason people continue to behave badly. A "toot" is, "hey, I see you, and a cop might see you too," not a threat to run someone off the road.

Ah, the whole conversation makes me miss Rome... (A Roman told me, Nonleg, do you know what a millisecond is in Rome? The time between when the light turns green and the people behind you start honking.)