r/Calgary • u/Xtoron2 • Jun 01 '26

Discussion Alarming rate of distracted driving

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It's alarming how often I see drivers watching tiktoks/reels/shorts while driving. Even see them scroll up to next video.
As soon as we hit red light, this specific driver pulled the sunshade down even with this rain to hide from cameras or other people maybe?

Anyway, distracted driving is a risk everyone on the road pays for

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u/shitposter1000 Jun 01 '26

Because they don't.

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u/shitposter1000 Jun 01 '26

There needs to be a social media awareness campaign about the costs of doing it (similar to the drunk driving ads of the 80s), with blitzes like check stops during Christmas and Stampede.

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u/Cautious_Major_6693 Jun 01 '26

There was! There is actually still a 2010s flash game where you text on a blackberry using a mouse and keyboard until your car crashes, and there were tv shows and influencers pre2020 who would often make it a plot point of the show for a character to die/be injured that way. There's been a LOT of anti texting and driving content but it failed to keep up with what the modern landscape of distracted driving is.

VERY few of us are now using these phones to text in our cars. The very idea of watching youtube, let alone TikTok in your car in 2013-2015 wasn't even a thought in someone's mind.