For years, distracted walking has been considered an unavoidable reality in New York.

Texting while walking absent-mindedly is an “epidemic, which needs to end,” Gothamist declared in 2012. A year later, a video on YouTube showed pranksters, wearing orange “Seeing Eye Person” vests, leading avid texters around the streets of Manhattan.

In 2016, when the Pokémon Go virtual reality game was released for smartphones, young players were so enthralled that they turned into “walking zombies,” said Bill Bratton, the city’s police commissioner at the time.

Concerns peaked in 2017, when New York State lawmakers ordered the city to study “the dangers of being a distracted pedestrian.”

The results from that study are in.

As my colleague Michael Gold reports , texting while walking will most likely not get you killed, according to the report, released by the city’s Transportation Department.