• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Don't text and drive it can kill you!

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
SirStev0 said:
Also the trick is being good at texting. The driving is the easy part.

Honestly... there hasn't been an increase in car accidents because of texting... there has been an increase in texting as the excuse to why you got in a car wreck.

Used to be drugs or alcohol or eating or playing with your radio or cell phones or checking out hot chick jogging or falling asleep.

Fact is driving is boring as shit. All the fantasy and allure dies about 15 minutes into driving for the first time.
Click to expand...

I wonder how many people would use texting as a scape goat to this. I know I almost rear ended a car because of a jogger. 😛
 
Yea, the whole "texting while driving" thing is blown way out of proportion. Any number of distractions can have bad outcomes. The reason it's in the news is because it's kids doing it. They can't drive to begin with though. Bad idea? Yes, but then so is driving in general.

If the government got tons of taxes and kickbacks off texting (like oil and cigarettes) this would be a moot point.

I think this is where some member of this forum tells me they hope I die and burn in hell. Such a loving community.
 
Last edited:
ImpulsE69 said:
Yea, the whole "texting while driving" thing is blown way out of proportion. Any number of distractions can have bad outcomes. The reason it's in the news is because it's kids doing it. They can't drive to begin with though. Bad idea? Yes, but then so is driving in general.

If the government got tons of taxes and kickbacks off texting (like oil and cigarettes) this would be a moot point.

I think this is where some member of this forum tells me they hope I die and burn in hell. Such a loving community.
Click to expand...

Of course there are a million other distractions, but texting doesn't has no place in any way while you're driving.

Oh, die and burn in hell.
 
SillyOReilly said:
Of course there are a million other distractions, but texting doesn't has no place in any way while you're driving.

Oh, die and burn in hell.
Click to expand...

ImpulsE69 said:
Thank you, my day is complete.
Click to expand...

You asked for it, you got it.

heymrdj said:
Do you think it feels like a badass when it makes such ignorant statements? It made my day complete too ^_^.
Click to expand...

And this dork is going to try again. :whiste:
You made enough of a horses ass out of yourself last time.
 
heymrdj said:
Allusions are nor reality you silly troll. Go on back to your playpen now. 🙄
Click to expand...


I simply gave the dude what he wished for.
Trying to call me about it was pure idiocy on your part.
I realize you're too stupid to follow along with simple dialog, go take some reading comprehension classes.
 
SillyOReilly said:
I simply gave the dude what he wished for.
Trying to call me about it was pure idiocy on your part.
I realize you're too stupid to follow along with simple dialog, go take some reading comprehension classes.
Click to expand...

If someone tells you to touch a powerline and that it's awesome, and you do so, the blame is 100% on you. Unintelligent troll is unintelligent.
 
Here we go again.
I am sure you simply read his bolded text, saw it was me and tried in earnest to make a scathing reply.
Back peddling and making up idiotic analogies will not help you in any way.

Egg on your face yet again, anime boy.
 
SillyOReilly said:
Here we go again.
I am sure you simply read his bolded text, saw it was me and tried in earnest to make a scathing reply.
Back peddling and making up idiotic analogies will not help you in any way.

Egg on your face yet again, anime boy.
Click to expand...

Your allusions are not reality.

Egg on your face yet again, go take that nap now.
 
I'm starting to feel guilty, picking on some dude obviously lacking mentally in some manner. There has to be something wrong since you always try to start shit, but I have to finish again.
Here's some advice for you, internet is serious business.
​

“I guess I have an anger problem. I lose my temper pretty quick. But it’s not like my wife doesn’t do things to make me mad.” Richard has reluctantly come to treatment because his wife took out a restraining order after their last fight. He admits he lost control. He acknowledges that maybe he said things he shouldn’t have. But he also thinks she shouldn’t have done or said what she did. “I can’t help getting mad when she jerks my chain. I can’t let her get away with that!” he says.
What Richard doesn’t yet understand is this: Temper isn’t something you lose. It’s something you decide to throw away.
Raging, shouting, name-calling, throwing things and threatening harm is all a big bluff. It’s the human equivalent of animal behavior. From the puffer fish that puffs itself up to twice its size to look more intimidating to the lion on the veldt who shakes his mane and roars, creatures who feel threatened posture and threaten in order to protect themselves and their turf. The display often is enough to get the predator or interloper to back off. If not, the fight — or flight — is on.
People who rage are the same. Feeling a threat, they posture. They throw away all mature controls and rant and rage like an out-of-control 2-year-old. It’s impressive. It’s scary. It gets folks around them to walk around on eggshells. Others often let them “win” just to get away.
But are they happy? Usually not. When I talk to the Richards of the world, they usually just want things to go right. They want respect. They want their kids and their partners to give them the authority they think they deserve. Sadly, their tactics backfire. Not knowing what might set him off, kids, partners, coworkers and friends distance and leave him more and more alone.
Helping someone like Richard with “anger management” requires more than helping him learn how to express his angry feelings appropriately. Giving him practical skills alone assumes more control than he can probably hold on to. To be able to integrate those skills into his self-image, he needs to reconsider some of his basic assumptions about life and his place in it.
7 Mistaken Assumptions Angry People Often Make


  1. They can’t help it. Angry people have lots of excuses. Women will blame their PMS. Both sexes will blame their stress, their exhaustion, or their worries. Never mind that other people who have PMS or who are stressed, tired, or worried don’t pop off at the world. Angry people don’t yet understand that they are actually giving themselves permission to rant. In that sense, they are very much in control.
  2. The only way to express anger is to explode. People who rage believe that anger is like the buildup of steam in an overheated steam engine. They think they need to blow off the steam in order to be OK. In fact, raging tends only to produce more of the same.
  3. Frustration is intolerable. Angry people can’t sit with frustration, anxiety or fear. To them, such feelings are a signal that they are being challenged. When life doesn’t go their way, when someone doesn’t see things as they do, when their best-laid plans get interrupted or they make a mistake, they simply can’t tolerate it. To them, it’s better to blow than to be left with those feelings. They don’t get it that frustration is a normal part of everyone’s life and that it is often the source of creativity and inspiration.
  4. It’s more important to win than to be right. Chronically angry people often have the idea that their status is at stake when there is conflict. When questioned, they take it overly personally. If they are losing an argument, they experience a loss of self-esteem. At that moment, they need to assert their authority, even if they are wrong. When it is certain that they are wrong, they will find a way to prove that the other person is more wrong. For mature people, self-esteem is grounded in being able to put ego aside in order to find the best solution.
  5. “Respect” means that people do things their way. When another driver tailgates, when a partner refuses to go along with a plan, when a kid doesn’t jump when told to do something, they feel disrespected. To them, disrespect is intolerable. Making a lot of noise and threatening is their way of reasserting their right to “respect” by others. Sadly, when the basis of “respect” is fear, it takes a toll on love and caring.
  6. The way to make things right is to fight. Some angry people have learned at the feet of a master. Having grown up with parents who fight, it is their “normal.” They haven’t a clue how to negotiate differences or manage conflict except by escalating. Then they become very much like the parent they loathed and feared when they were kids.
  7. Other people should understand that they didn’t mean what they did or said when they were angry. Angry people feel that anger entitles them to let loose. It’s up to other people not to take seriously hurtful things they say or do. After all, they say, they were just angry. They don’t get it that other people are legitimately hurt, embarrassed, humiliated, or afraid.
Helping my patient Richard means helping him identify which of these assumptions are driving his temper tantrums. Some or all may apply. He may even have a few that are more uniquely his own. Teaching him rules for anger management, although important, isn’t enough to have long-term impact. Changing his assumptions will enable him to use such skills with conviction and confidence.
​
 
Tried it once... Couldn't even keep it in my lane. I am teh fail.

Only playing with my GPS from now on...
 
SillyOReilly said:
I'm starting to feel guilty, picking on some dude obviously lacking mentally in some manner. There has to be something wrong since you always try to start shit, but I have to finish again.
Here's some advice for you, internet is serious business.
​

“I guess I have an anger problem. I lose my temper pretty quick. But it’s not like my wife doesn’t do things to make me mad.” Richard has reluctantly come to treatment because his wife took out a restraining order after their last fight. He admits he lost control. He acknowledges that maybe he said things he shouldn’t have. But he also thinks she shouldn’t have done or said what she did. “I can’t help getting mad when she jerks my chain. I can’t let her get away with that!” he says.
What Richard doesn’t yet understand is this: Temper isn’t something you lose. It’s something you decide to throw away.
Raging, shouting, name-calling, throwing things and threatening harm is all a big bluff. It’s the human equivalent of animal behavior. From the puffer fish that puffs itself up to twice its size to look more intimidating to the lion on the veldt who shakes his mane and roars, creatures who feel threatened posture and threaten in order to protect themselves and their turf. The display often is enough to get the predator or interloper to back off. If not, the fight — or flight — is on.
People who rage are the same. Feeling a threat, they posture. They throw away all mature controls and rant and rage like an out-of-control 2-year-old. It’s impressive. It’s scary. It gets folks around them to walk around on eggshells. Others often let them “win” just to get away.
But are they happy? Usually not. When I talk to the Richards of the world, they usually just want things to go right. They want respect. They want their kids and their partners to give them the authority they think they deserve. Sadly, their tactics backfire. Not knowing what might set him off, kids, partners, coworkers and friends distance and leave him more and more alone.
Helping someone like Richard with “anger management” requires more than helping him learn how to express his angry feelings appropriately. Giving him practical skills alone assumes more control than he can probably hold on to. To be able to integrate those skills into his self-image, he needs to reconsider some of his basic assumptions about life and his place in it.
7 Mistaken Assumptions Angry People Often Make


  1. They can’t help it. Angry people have lots of excuses. Women will blame their PMS. Both sexes will blame their stress, their exhaustion, or their worries. Never mind that other people who have PMS or who are stressed, tired, or worried don’t pop off at the world. Angry people don’t yet understand that they are actually giving themselves permission to rant. In that sense, they are very much in control.
  2. The only way to express anger is to explode. People who rage believe that anger is like the buildup of steam in an overheated steam engine. They think they need to blow off the steam in order to be OK. In fact, raging tends only to produce more of the same.
  3. Frustration is intolerable. Angry people can’t sit with frustration, anxiety or fear. To them, such feelings are a signal that they are being challenged. When life doesn’t go their way, when someone doesn’t see things as they do, when their best-laid plans get interrupted or they make a mistake, they simply can’t tolerate it. To them, it’s better to blow than to be left with those feelings. They don’t get it that frustration is a normal part of everyone’s life and that it is often the source of creativity and inspiration.
  4. It’s more important to win than to be right. Chronically angry people often have the idea that their status is at stake when there is conflict. When questioned, they take it overly personally. If they are losing an argument, they experience a loss of self-esteem. At that moment, they need to assert their authority, even if they are wrong. When it is certain that they are wrong, they will find a way to prove that the other person is more wrong. For mature people, self-esteem is grounded in being able to put ego aside in order to find the best solution.
  5. “Respect” means that people do things their way. When another driver tailgates, when a partner refuses to go along with a plan, when a kid doesn’t jump when told to do something, they feel disrespected. To them, disrespect is intolerable. Making a lot of noise and threatening is their way of reasserting their right to “respect” by others. Sadly, when the basis of “respect” is fear, it takes a toll on love and caring.
  6. The way to make things right is to fight. Some angry people have learned at the feet of a master. Having grown up with parents who fight, it is their “normal.” They haven’t a clue how to negotiate differences or manage conflict except by escalating. Then they become very much like the parent they loathed and feared when they were kids.
  7. Other people should understand that they didn’t mean what they did or said when they were angry. Angry people feel that anger entitles them to let loose. It’s up to other people not to take seriously hurtful things they say or do. After all, they say, they were just angry. They don’t get it that other people are legitimately hurt, embarrassed, humiliated, or afraid.
Helping my patient Richard means helping him identify which of these assumptions are driving his temper tantrums. Some or all may apply. He may even have a few that are more uniquely his own. Teaching him rules for anger management, although important, isn’t enough to have long-term impact. Changing his assumptions will enable him to use such skills with conviction and confidence.
​
Click to expand...

Again your allusions do not match reality. The burden of proof is on you 😉.

Seeing as you think you're right, you would obviously take the high road and not be replying. But you're not and you're just affirming your own symptoms.
 
Imp said:
Tried it once... Couldn't even keep it in my lane. I am teh fail.

Only playing with my GPS from now on...
Click to expand...

There's people that have crashed from that too. That's why in-dash units have so many motion lockout systems these days. We need a population better at multi-tasking 😛.
 
pwuvz.jpg


I realize replying to you is justifying your existence, stop being so obvious.
 
heymrdj said:
There's people that have crashed from that too. That's why in-dash units have so many motion lockout systems these days. We need a population better at multi-tasking 😛.
Click to expand...

the touch-screens are more dangerous than say IDrive, MMI, or Comand with controls at the armrest area. Pointing with a finger requires precision and you need to shift focus and switch concentration... not so good. Been there with a Garmin vs. in-dash with a controller. If you've used both, you know what I mean. I'm glad the touchscreens like Lexus lock you out.

Besides, fingerprints are ugly.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top