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> say I’m in traffic on the highway. Searching 401

Takes a lot of good faith to not think the above implies they’re searching twitter while sitting in traffic in a car they’re driving. They never said “I can ask a passenger to search…” or anything of the sort.






> Takes a lot of good faith to not think the above implies they’re searching twitter while sitting in traffic in a car they’re driving.

Anyone that know's anything about the 401 in Ontario knows that you are not driving on it, but are stopped in a parking lot. :)


Only takes a lot of good faith if you assume the worst in people. But yes, I’m married and sometimes while my wife is driving I’ll use my phone.

More importantly though it was just a randomly picked use case. Whether twitter is a good news platform or not doesn’t depend on whether it is used while driving


"They never said “I can ask a passenger to search…” or anything of the sort."

It would be weird for them to say that if, for example, they were the passenger...


English is not my first language and I clearly understand that it implies that that-person wants to know why the cars are not moving (traffic) while sitting in a car as a driver or passenger.

you can search twitter safely, hands free with audio only.

I thought we all agreed it is still a distraction.



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