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Most iPhone users don't even drive. In the way we are heading, they probably never will.
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These are all metrics around driving habits, not about outcomes.

"Safer" is an adjective of outcomes and potential outcomes, neither of which this article correlates with habits or demographics.

Not to mention that there's zero information about how any of this is measured or how they control for sensor calibration, phone placement, phone capability etc...

signed, android user

Indeed. There’s a chance all of the “acceleration” categories are down to different types of accelerometers being controlled for poorly.
Not only that, but just looking at the graph I would not be surprised if the delta is well within the margin for error.
Probably that iPhone users are more into social media fashion, which they check more regularly.

It's not about the phone, it's about why they chose the particular phone in the first place. iPhones are deemed more valuable by many people, hence have a more importance in people's lives, hence more usage. Probably something around those lines.

And that's how you write a clickbait article.

Zero substance, zero data gathering methodology, zero statistical deviation controlling methods (we know that real-time GPS isn't always precise), and as another commenter pointed out: no outcome measurement, just supposed driving habits.

Well okay, maybe that really supports the conclusion in the title but it's not clear how.