• Markus29@feddit.nl
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    Am I the only one that assumes the wife was driving? OP was asleep on the passenger seat, was woken by their wife for the milestone and took the picture?

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          Literally no, read it again: OP

          • Was asleep
          • was woken by wife and
          • took picture

          Wife didn’t need to take the picture, she woke OP to take the picture

          • happyhippo@feddit.it
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            Technically, nowhere it says she woke OP up.

            She just remembered how important this was to OP to the point of either waking OP up and let take a pic, or take a pic on her own.

            We will never know…

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          For the sake of symmetry, I would’ve liked to see her step it up by 10 or 15 MPH, get in another 85. It is a good, crisp photo though. Can’t fault that.

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          i swear people on the internet have never driven a car before. you get used to the speed after like 10 seconds

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      “am I the only one” is such a garbage statement. Overused attention seeking hyperbole.

      I came to Lemmy to avoid this Reddit shit

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          It’s a pointless phrase that is most often used on the internet.

          It is used to whore for attention, because if someone is asking whether or not they are the only one, they should already know that the answer is “no,” yet proceeds to ask anyway. Thus, “am I the only one” disguises a statement of opinion as a question.

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        Am I the only one who came to Lemmy for more of that shit?

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          I just came here for the same kind of shit on the same 3rd party shit I’ve been using over thousands of shits.

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        I mean, she was definitely using her phone while driving at 70mph. Does it really matter whether or not she was taking a pic or sending a text? It’s still incredibly dangerous.

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          No, it was all safe. She took the picture from the passenger seat while OP was sleeping.

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            I feel like a lot of people have never done a long road trip where you’re driving hundreds of miles through the night. Taking your phone out and snapping a pic isn’t a huge deal IMO. I certainly don’t pull over to change my radio and taking a picture is arguably easier than that.

            edit: with

            • takeda@lemmy.world
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              I would argue it is harder and more dangerous. With the phone you need to unlock it, select camera app, then make sure it focuses (which doesn’t work that great at night, you have to look at the screen, tap on the area you want to focus), second thing is that due to low light conditions to avoid blurring you need to be perfectly still (which is hard to do in a moving car, especially if you are driving), this makes you check the picture then retry, then check again etc.

              You likely could spend even a minute looking at the screen to make sure you got a good picture. Each time you switch your eyes need to adjust their focus which also takes a second, but that it is insignificant to the rest.

              BTW: even changing the radio station takes enough attention to cause accidents (that’s why they started adding controls on the wheel), but taking a picture (especially at night) is way more dangerous.

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                To be fair, I just press the power button twice and it automatically opens the camera app. I wouldn’t even have to look to take this picture. That said, I don’t use my phone while driving because that shit is dangerous no matter what.

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                  I have Sony Xperia phone which has a physical dedicated camera button, that doubles as a shutter button once camera is activated. Despite of that, no matter how much I tried I failed to take a legible picture of back of my neck (I needed it to be sharp so I could send it to my doctor) and after many tries (even with using a mirror) I gave up and had someone to do it for me.

                  It is really hard to take a sharp picture of something close without looking, especially with low light conditions.

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                On my phone I double tap the power button to launch the camera, then use the volume buttons to snap a pic. Doesn’t require me to look away from the road. Framing isn’t always right, but it’s 100% doable without taking your eyes off the road

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          do you really think you have to pay extremely vigilant attention every single second of the drive? do you think anyone does this besides the dorks that always comment this on these posts?

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        To be fair, I think texting while stationary at a red light is a tad different than trying to take a photo at a whopping 70mph (check the speedometer).

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        What are you smoking? Dude’s wife was driving at 70 mph and capturing this “milestone” …

        Reckless af. Very easily could have lost control or read ended a family just traveling to their destination

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      Maybe in the 1970s. Any modern car worth owning will be way more reliable than that if you change your oil regularly.

      We have a 2004 F-150 with 565,000 miles on the original engine and it’s still running great. We had to get a new transmission at 240k, and I think that’s the only repair it’s needed over about $200.00

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        I got multiple SAABs (Pre GM/1991 or older) to over 1,000,000 miles. Got one to 1,500,000. Never quite hit the golden 2,000,000 mile mark though. Plenty of other people did though. Volvo even has a couple cars that made it to 2,000,000. Don’t know of any other brands that will make it that far. Maybe some unicorn of a Honda or Toyota.

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    Mine got angry at me for taking my picture, but she was talking about her dead dad at the time. (I didn’t say a word, just pulled out my camera and snapped the picture).

    For context, they were astranged and she was relieved he died.

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      Nah, there’s several comments saying the same thing. Texting and driving is dangerous, yes. Taking a pic that takes literally no concentration for a few seconds on a long stretch of interstate at night, not very risky. I can almost guarantee the same people whining have fiddled with their phones to change songs/podcasts/audiobooks/GPS for a few seconds at some point in city traffic.

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      You don’t even need to look. Every smartphone will open the native camera app if you double tap the power button, while the screen is off.

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    bro that is fucking stupid. Driving at 70 mph on a highway and capturing the “80085” milestone 💀💀

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    Ah yes, dangerous driving by idiots who don’t care if they kill people.

    Classic.