I would like to hypothesize that the kind of phone you use drastically alters the degree of distraction. For instance, a dumb phone, while standing reasonably as a distraction, the additional level of danger posed is so substantially lower than smart phones that it barely qualifies as being a public health hazard on public roadways causing need to heighten the awareness backed by millions of dollars. Smart phones, on the other hand, especially when texting adds a lethal element so substantial that texting while driving should be disabled as a possibility by the manufacturer with hefty penalties for failure to do so.
Okay, I was being dramatic, but there is, I hypothesize, a substantial variance of focus between dumb phones and smart phones. I can feel the buttons on dumb phones. Not with smart phones. I don't get auto correct with dumb phones. I get into a verbal cussing match with smart phones who insist I say something other than what I want to say. I don't have to back space with dumb phones. With smart phones, I have to coax it like a child. I can text with a dumb phone at 100mph in pouring down rain while running a red light with no visibility. With a smart phone, you need 30 minutes just to convince the phone that I really mean what I want to say and not what it thinks I have in mind.
Okay, maybe it won't make for a good hypothesis, but I didn't want to look up the rant thread
