Reading the ‘c’mon, we’ve all done it’ comments there.
No, we don’t.
I ignore it. If there’s something that needs a quick check, I do that at a full stop at red lights.
This is one of the reasons I’ve stopped riding motorcycles which is something I loved doing.
While magnificent, our brains are really quite simple, single threaded and underpowered by today's computing standards. When people look left and right before they pull out, they are looking for a car. You can be right there in their clear line of sight on a motorcycle or bike and their brain won't register your presence because your image is not that of a car. This simplicity in how our brains process information is crippled even further with the added distraction of processing information from a phone.
Yet, I have seen ILL State Police on the 294 Tollway, running at 70+ MPH, checking their laptops, talking on their cellphone and even reading the morning Trib.
Grow-up.
Hypocrisy, thy name is “murrican”