Most parents text while driving, but millennials may be more dangerous


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 16 May 2019

More than half of US parents believe it’s unsafe to text while driving, but most of them do it anyway, a new survey suggests. 

"I think many people believe that texting and driving is unsafe, but also have gotten away with reading and/or writing texts at some point, reinforcing a false sense of safety," said senior study author Dr Regan Bergmark of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. 

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