Why is it not illegal to talk on a cell while operating a vehicle? The better part of the general population are too fucking stupid to multi-task these two successfully.
Fucking cell phones
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No worse than the mother who's little kid was tearing pieces of paper in to confetti and tossing it out the window on the fraser Hwy the other week. After 3-4 times of that I layed on the fukkin horn.
Huh....the mother acted like she was off in some other world.
Christ sakes controll your stupid fukkin kid for shit sakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huh....the mother acted like she was off in some other world.
Christ sakes controll your stupid fukkin kid for shit sakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have heard that talking on a phone impairs driving more than being over .08.
I believe it. Both because .08 isn't that much, and a lot of people who drive while talking on a cell phone might as well be driving in a car that is full to the roof with water. They are fucking oblivious to what is happening around them.
I can't tell you how many times people have started to change lanes and almost fucking broadsided me...
People! pull over to make the call... before you die.
I believe it. Both because .08 isn't that much, and a lot of people who drive while talking on a cell phone might as well be driving in a car that is full to the roof with water. They are fucking oblivious to what is happening around them.
I can't tell you how many times people have started to change lanes and almost fucking broadsided me...
People! pull over to make the call... before you die.
Back in the summer of 1990 I wporked for a engineering company doing all kinds of road construction testing, from surveying to cutting core samples out of fresh asphalt. It was truly scary to see how totally oblivious WAY too many drivers were to their surroundings(and this is before every asshole had a cell phone. Car phones were still a rarity.) I remember standing in the middle of bald ass prairie road with cones all around my truck, a flashing light on the roof of said truck, over six feet of me in boots with a reflective vest, and this giant drill like contraption hanging off the back of the truck, and people flying by without even a glance in my direction. Hell, that summer I remember my mom driving by me one day and not noticing me(and at that point she even kind of liked me, at least for a while.)
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I saw a cool episode of American Frontier with Alan Alda and they discussed cell phone use while drivng a car. A young driver with normal reactions have the same reaction times as a 60 year old when driving and using a cell phone at the same time.
From that same episode...
In a strikingly realistic driving simulator called VIRTTEX at Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, Alan finds out for himself the distraction caused by using a cell phone in a car traveling at high speed on a highway. Alan has to keep an eye on erratic drivers both in front and behind him. Ford researcher Jeff Greenberg has discovered the alarming fact that teenage drivers miss over half these potentially dangerous events while dialing their cell phones — a far worse performance than adults. What's more, the mental distraction cell phones cause — especially when a call comes in — make even hands-free phones not that much safer for adults and teenagers alike.
The VIRTTEX simulator is also being used to study how tiredness affects a driver, and is helping to develop ways to alert the driver to his or her potentially deadly inattention.
From that same episode...
In a strikingly realistic driving simulator called VIRTTEX at Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, Alan finds out for himself the distraction caused by using a cell phone in a car traveling at high speed on a highway. Alan has to keep an eye on erratic drivers both in front and behind him. Ford researcher Jeff Greenberg has discovered the alarming fact that teenage drivers miss over half these potentially dangerous events while dialing their cell phones — a far worse performance than adults. What's more, the mental distraction cell phones cause — especially when a call comes in — make even hands-free phones not that much safer for adults and teenagers alike.
The VIRTTEX simulator is also being used to study how tiredness affects a driver, and is helping to develop ways to alert the driver to his or her potentially deadly inattention.
I've seen studies that there's no difference in accident rate between hands-free & handheld models. They both cause the same distraction. I prefer people use a handheld; that way I ID them clearly so I know to avoid them!
You can't legislate & outlaw all stupidity. What about the parent who's screaming at the kids in the backseat, or the idiots reading, drinking, eating, messing with the stereo, or lighting a butt? Half the drivers out there place attention to the road as 3-4th in priority, those blessed efficient multitaskers.
You can't legislate & outlaw all stupidity. What about the parent who's screaming at the kids in the backseat, or the idiots reading, drinking, eating, messing with the stereo, or lighting a butt? Half the drivers out there place attention to the road as 3-4th in priority, those blessed efficient multitaskers.
I hate it when people talk on those damn things while driving. Really do. Especially when I am a passenger.
I have a really close girlfriend lives who in Calgary who not only tries to e-mail with her fucking blackberry but talks on her cell in the other ear at the same time. I thought we were gonna die the last time I was with her. Needless to say I ripped both gadgets away from her as she was talking. Wouldn't give them back to her 'till we got to our destination. She was a bit pissed with me......but who gives a shit. I'm alive. And if she's reading this thread......you know who you are luv! Lol!
Seen it happen way too often when people just don't drive right while on the damn things.
I vote it should be illegal to use a cell, whether it be hands free or not, while operating a vehicle.
Paris/Caryn
I have a really close girlfriend lives who in Calgary who not only tries to e-mail with her fucking blackberry but talks on her cell in the other ear at the same time. I thought we were gonna die the last time I was with her. Needless to say I ripped both gadgets away from her as she was talking. Wouldn't give them back to her 'till we got to our destination. She was a bit pissed with me......but who gives a shit. I'm alive. And if she's reading this thread......you know who you are luv! Lol!
Seen it happen way too often when people just don't drive right while on the damn things.
I vote it should be illegal to use a cell, whether it be hands free or not, while operating a vehicle.
Paris/Caryn
Hey that's actually a really good excuse IMO. You just may have something there.wilde said:I second that. One more excuse not to answer the phone when the SO calls.
Paris/Caryn
