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If they ever outlaw talking on a cell phone while driving...
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BlancoNino
Diamond Member
1) It's nearly impossible to enforce.
2) Hands-free devices don't take the driver away from the conversation.
3) Hey, you're such a nice guy. Can I buy you a beer sometime? 😉
ForumMaster
Diamond Member
well, i know that in britain, talking on cellphones while driving is illegal but that doesn't over SMS. so technically, BlancoNico is right.
RelaxTheMind
Platinum Member
I doubt the inbred techno-geeks who cant drive and use a phone even know what text messaging is. If your too cheap to buy a hands free set then you obviously suck at the business your supposedly doing. I dont see a point in having yet another distraction for the many already bad drivers out there.
The point? YOU CAN KILL PEOPLE! so... enjoy texting your funny jokes on your free-with-plan phone as you smack a 5 year old in the face with your bumper
The point? YOU CAN KILL PEOPLE! so... enjoy texting your funny jokes on your free-with-plan phone as you smack a 5 year old in the face with your bumper
studies have proven pretty conclusively that talking to someone on the phone while driving, even with a hands-free phone, is a pretty significant distraction.
it's pretty retarded... is what you have to talk about really THAT important that you'd risk getting into an accident for it?
it's pretty retarded... is what you have to talk about really THAT important that you'd risk getting into an accident for it?
Saulbadguy
Diamond Member
Nothing is that important. I just get bored when i'm driving so it's nice to talk to someone, sometimes.
dmcowen674
No Lifer
Bring back horse and buggies.
Regardless of whether you are willing to admit it or not, using a cell phone while driving DOES impair your ability to drive.
Im not going to sit here and say that I dont use my phone while driving, because I do.
I hate being a passenger in a car while the driver is talking on a cell phone, because it becomes more obvious how it impairs them. It takes them a bit longer to react to stopped traffic, etc...
Im not going to sit here and say that I dont use my phone while driving, because I do.
I hate being a passenger in a car while the driver is talking on a cell phone, because it becomes more obvious how it impairs them. It takes them a bit longer to react to stopped traffic, etc...
What fallacies? Fact is, people talking on the phone in the car have one less hand on the wheel and more importantly, their attention diverted from the road to the conversation. People who drive and talk on their mobiles are more likely to have an accident than someone with their mind on the road and their hands on the wheel. We've had a ban on using phones in the car over here for a while now and it's not that they're issuing tickets left right and centre because it's hard to police, but that people are now disinclined to do it, and it's the behaviour that needed changing.
Zysoclaplem
Diamond Member
Take away one distraction and people will find another.
Food, drink, cellphone, makeup, radio, CDs, TV, hot person walking by on the street or in another car , etc..etc..
Food, drink, cellphone, makeup, radio, CDs, TV, hot person walking by on the street or in another car , etc..etc..
MercenaryForHire
Lifer
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All of you should get together and have a group buy, because I see a whole assload of people who need a new set for their Sarcasm Detectors.
- M4H
All of you should get together and have a group buy, because I see a whole assload of people who need a new set for their Sarcasm Detectors.
- M4H
Aikouka
Lifer
Cell phone use while driving may not affect all people the same (I can personally do it without an issue)... but even still, the use was abused profusely and remember, driving is a privilege not a right.
On the issue of cell phones, I just got my new upgraded phone last night! It was a real pain finding one as I can't have a camera phone at work (there goes 90% of the phones) and I wanted one that's compatible with my car's bluetooth (there went the other 9%). So I ended up with a Motorola L2. It's actually not too bad, but I wish I could've found a flip phone rather than the "candy bar" style.
On the issue of cell phones, I just got my new upgraded phone last night! It was a real pain finding one as I can't have a camera phone at work (there goes 90% of the phones) and I wanted one that's compatible with my car's bluetooth (there went the other 9%). So I ended up with a Motorola L2. It's actually not too bad, but I wish I could've found a flip phone rather than the "candy bar" style.
Winchester
Diamond Member
It was on the news yesterday (CBS, Katie Couric) about several states looking at banning cell phone usage in its entirety while driving, which includes texting. It has a section on a kid who killed a older man on a bicycle while texting.
Every distraction adds to the chance of you causing (or not avoiding) an accident. The problem with cell phones is threefold. First, having a conversation is a distraction. That by itself is not a big deal. Talking to someone sitting in the passenger seat is not seen as a bad thing typically. Cell phone is perhaps a little worse because the sound quality is worse possibly requiring increased attention to understand what the other person is trying to say. Second, the physical act of holding the phone to your ear is another distraction. Doesn't seem as though it should be, but it is. Try holding anything to your head while driving (a brick, a shoe, I don't care), and I think you'll notice it distracts you. Now you have two distractions at the same time. Third, people who talk on their cell phones do it pretty much contantly. Now you have two distractions consistently. Whereas adjusting the radio is a HUGE distraction, it also generally only happens for a few seconds each trip, and you can pick a proper time to do it, like when sitting at a red light. Not so with constant cell phone conversations. Add these all together and you have an unacceptable level of consistent distraction from your driving. Frankly, I don't think it should be illegal to talk on your cellphone while driving, but if you do it constantly, I do think it makes you a tool.
purbeast0
No Lifer
oh yah, and saying that using a cell phone makes it so the driver can only drive with 1 hand is such a BS comment.
what, do you think that us who drive a stick shift have an extra hand that we can use for the shifter? i drive with 1 hand all the time, regardless of what i'm doing in my car, because i have to change gears with my right hand.
and when i'm flowing on a highway, i don't put my 2nd hand on the steering wheel, i still only use 1. it's just more comfortable and having 2 hands on the wheel doesn't make anything safer, regardless of what they told you in drivers ed.
what, do you think that us who drive a stick shift have an extra hand that we can use for the shifter? i drive with 1 hand all the time, regardless of what i'm doing in my car, because i have to change gears with my right hand.
and when i'm flowing on a highway, i don't put my 2nd hand on the steering wheel, i still only use 1. it's just more comfortable and having 2 hands on the wheel doesn't make anything safer, regardless of what they told you in drivers ed.
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