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I agree with this too, except that last bit. Making a car manual has a near zero affect on people's use of phones when driving.
I say this as someone that used to use T9 to text when driving a manual car. Mind you that was 20 ish years ago when I was a stupid teenager, but there really was no difference between manual/automatic and using my phone when driving other than the added step of shifting.
To be fair, texting via t9 on physical buttons was way safer than fumbling around on a touch screen. I dit it blindly all the time.
You aren't wrong lol.
Fellow former T9 texter here. I had one or two near misses as a teenager and cut that shit right out.