Texting @ 80MPH in the Wrong Lane...

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Texting while driving should carry a MINIMUM of a one year loss of all driving priviledges for the first offense. Increase it drastically for subsequent offenses.

Just because you can't handle texting while driving, doesn't mean others can't. My phone has a qwerty keyboard and I don't even have to look at it to type a message out, and it's not like I write a novel. Yes, no, ok are perfectly fine responses. If I feel it would impair my driving in a situation I'd put it down until it didn't.

I'm the same. I don't have a qwerty, but I know the keypad well enough to type out simple responses without looking.

Edit: And 15% is not a lot of accidents involving cell phones. Especially considering that more than 15% of drivers talk on the phone while talking.

 

[Narse]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Texting while driving should carry a MINIMUM of a one year loss of all driving priviledges for the first offense. Increase it drastically for subsequent offenses.

Just because you can't handle texting while driving, doesn't mean others can't. My phone has a qwerty keyboard and I don't even have to look at it to type a message out, and it's not like I write a novel. Yes, no, ok are perfectly fine responses. If I feel it would impair my driving in a situation I'd put it down until it didn't.

Funny, most drunk drivers feel the same way that you do, the way they do things is perfectly safe and it's only the other drunks that are the problem.

And 100% of people who text while they're driving feel the way OdiN does. At least the drunks have impaired judgment as an excuse.

Apparently, so do texters like Odin...:roll:

:roll: Go ahead and keep assuming you know me or that if I send a text once and awhile when I happen to also be driving I'm somehow a menace on the road and will cause lots of accidents or drive in the wrong lane or some other BS.

I honestly do not understand why on earth you think texting while driving is safe for you or anyone else!

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Narse

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Texting while driving should carry a MINIMUM of a one year loss of all driving priviledges for the first offense. Increase it drastically for subsequent offenses.

Just because you can't handle texting while driving, doesn't mean others can't. My phone has a qwerty keyboard and I don't even have to look at it to type a message out, and it's not like I write a novel. Yes, no, ok are perfectly fine responses. If I feel it would impair my driving in a situation I'd put it down until it didn't.

Funny, most drunk drivers feel the same way that you do, the way they do things is perfectly safe and it's only the other drunks that are the problem.

And 100% of people who text while they're driving feel the way OdiN does. At least the drunks have impaired judgment as an excuse.

Apparently, so do texters like Odin...:roll:

:roll: Go ahead and keep assuming you know me or that if I send a text once and awhile when I happen to also be driving I'm somehow a menace on the road and will cause lots of accidents or drive in the wrong lane or some other BS.

I honestly do not understand why on earth you think texting while driving is safe for you or anyone else!

I agree, texting while driving = nono. You should be paying attention--look what happened to this guy.


:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: props to MN coppers.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Narse

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Texting while driving should carry a MINIMUM of a one year loss of all driving priviledges for the first offense. Increase it drastically for subsequent offenses.

Just because you can't handle texting while driving, doesn't mean others can't. My phone has a qwerty keyboard and I don't even have to look at it to type a message out, and it's not like I write a novel. Yes, no, ok are perfectly fine responses. If I feel it would impair my driving in a situation I'd put it down until it didn't.

Funny, most drunk drivers feel the same way that you do, the way they do things is perfectly safe and it's only the other drunks that are the problem.

And 100% of people who text while they're driving feel the way OdiN does. At least the drunks have impaired judgment as an excuse.

Apparently, so do texters like Odin...:roll:

:roll: Go ahead and keep assuming you know me or that if I send a text once and awhile when I happen to also be driving I'm somehow a menace on the road and will cause lots of accidents or drive in the wrong lane or some other BS.

I honestly do not understand why on earth you think texting while driving is safe for you or anyone else!

Because it is?

I'm not saying everyone has the ability though - lots will push things too far as usual and they are the ones that cause the wrecks, etc.

 

[DAGTA]

The real problem here with texting while driving, OdiN, is that you need to turn in your man card.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Edit: And 15% is not a lot of accidents involving cell phones. Especially considering that more than 15% of drivers talk on the phone while talking.

Not a valid comparison. You need to compare miles driven while distracted to miles driven while not distracted (the statistic referred to distractions including cell phones, not just cell phones).

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
The real problem here with texting while driving, OdiN, is that you need to turn in your man card.

Well that and no matter how much he claims it doesn't affect his driving, it's got to take away a portion of his concentration.

He no longer has full, undivided attention on driving while texting.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner

Originally posted by: DAGTA
The real problem here with texting while driving, OdiN, is that you need to turn in your man card.

Well that and no matter how much he claims it doesn't affect his driving, it's got to take away a portion of his concentration.

He no longer has full, undivided attention on driving while texting.

I don't require full, undivided attention on driving in order to drive safely. I provide more than enough attention to driving while I am doing so. I have some left over that I can spare - others may not.

 

[QueBert]

how is it dangerous for OdiN to text (without looking at the phone) while driving? I drive while eating a burrito and will put hot sauce on for each bite. This is far more dangerous to do than to text without looking. I can text without looking, and I never drive with 2 hands on the wheel. So if the phone is in my lap and I'm texting with my free hand what's the big deal?

I still don't know how eating a burrito is legal while driving is legal LOL

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: QueBert
how is it dangerous for OdiN to text (without looking at the phone) while driving? I drive while eating a burrito and will put hot sauce on for each bite. This is far more dangerous to do than to text without looking. I can text without looking, and I never drive with 2 hands on the wheel. So if the phone is in my lap and I'm texting with my free hand what's the big deal?

I still don't know how eating a burrito is legal while driving is legal LOL

Yeah I'll sometimes eat a burger or something in the car. But that's okay because it's not electronic. I wonder if I could use bananaphone?

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: QueBert
how is it dangerous for OdiN to text (without looking at the phone) while driving? I drive while eating a burrito and will put hot sauce on for each bite. This is far more dangerous to do than to text without looking. I can text without looking, and I never drive with 2 hands on the wheel. So if the phone is in my lap and I'm texting with my free hand what's the big deal?

I still don't know how eating a burrito is legal while driving is legal LOL

Yeah I'll sometimes eat a burger or something in the car. But that's okay because it's not electronic. I wonder if I could use bananaphone?

Wow Bananaphone, that's a definite gray area, I would think you could but what do I know?

best reply in this thread, I can't believe some of these people on here are so uptight over this, smoking a cig while driving is probably more dangerous than texting, as long as the texter is doing one hand and not staring at the screen.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: QueBert
how is it dangerous for OdiN to text (without looking at the phone) while driving? I drive while eating a burrito and will put hot sauce on for each bite. This is far more dangerous to do than to text without looking. I can text without looking, and I never drive with 2 hands on the wheel. So if the phone is in my lap and I'm texting with my free hand what's the big deal?

I still don't know how eating a burrito is legal while driving is legal LOL

Yeah I'll sometimes eat a burger or something in the car. But that's okay because it's not electronic. I wonder if I could use bananaphone?

Eating takes far less concentration & attention than texting or talking. Claiming someone would have trouble eating a hamburger while driving is like claiming someone would have trouble walking while chewing gum.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: QueBert
how is it dangerous for OdiN to text (without looking at the phone) while driving? I drive while eating a burrito and will put hot sauce on for each bite. This is far more dangerous to do than to text without looking. I can text without looking, and I never drive with 2 hands on the wheel. So if the phone is in my lap and I'm texting with my free hand what's the big deal?

I still don't know how eating a burrito is legal while driving is legal LOL

Yeah I'll sometimes eat a burger or something in the car. But that's okay because it's not electronic. I wonder if I could use bananaphone?

Eating takes far less concentration & attention than texting or talking. Claiming someone would have trouble eating a hamburger while driving is like claiming someone would have trouble walking while chewing gum.

Maybe for you. Why do you think that because it might be that way for you or other people, that it must also be that way for me?

Different people have very different levels of the ability to balance multiple, demanding tasks. Some can do it better than others, that's a fact.

 

[Leros]

I'll be lenient with talking on a phone while driving (because I can distract myself worse with the radio), but texting while driving is just stupid.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: mugs
And 100% of people who text while they're driving feel the way OdiN does. At least the drunks have impaired judgment as an excuse.

Mental retardation IS impaired judgment. So OdiN has the same excuse.

 

[jackace]

I saw a show on TV a couple months back. (dateline, 20/20, or something like that) They had something like 5 guys and 5 girls take a driving test both while texting and not texting. Course was exactly the same both times. Everyone of the drivers said they could drive fine while texting and it would not affect their driving. Not a single one was able to drive the course while texting without knocking over cones.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I love watching people talk on their cell phones while driving. It's illegal without a headset in my state, so they kind of hunch over to hide the phone. It's extremely obvious and I always have to laugh when I see it 😀

I seriously want to buy a cell phone jammer for these idiots that stay in the right lane because they are yapping on their cell phone.

 

[oddyager]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Texting while driving should carry a MINIMUM of a one year loss of all driving priviledges for the first offense. Increase it drastically for subsequent offenses.

Just because you can't handle texting while driving, doesn't mean others can't. My phone has a qwerty keyboard and I don't even have to look at it to type a message out, and it's not like I write a novel. Yes, no, ok are perfectly fine responses. If I feel it would impair my driving in a situation I'd put it down until it didn't.

For every one of you who thinks they can multitask while driving there are probably a 1000 others who can not. I'd rather put public safety first over something as trivial an inconvenience as txt-ing on the road.

 

[PokerGuy]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Narse

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Texting while driving should carry a MINIMUM of a one year loss of all driving priviledges for the first offense. Increase it drastically for subsequent offenses.

Just because you can't handle texting while driving, doesn't mean others can't. My phone has a qwerty keyboard and I don't even have to look at it to type a message out, and it's not like I write a novel. Yes, no, ok are perfectly fine responses. If I feel it would impair my driving in a situation I'd put it down until it didn't.

Funny, most drunk drivers feel the same way that you do, the way they do things is perfectly safe and it's only the other drunks that are the problem.

And 100% of people who text while they're driving feel the way OdiN does. At least the drunks have impaired judgment as an excuse.

Apparently, so do texters like Odin...:roll:

:roll: Go ahead and keep assuming you know me or that if I send a text once and awhile when I happen to also be driving I'm somehow a menace on the road and will cause lots of accidents or drive in the wrong lane or some other BS.

I honestly do not understand why on earth you think texting while driving is safe for you or anyone else!

Because it is?

I'm not saying everyone has the ability though - lots will push things too far as usual and they are the ones that cause the wrecks, etc.

Unless the incoming text messages somehow magically reach your brain without you looking at the phone, you are looking at the phone and reading instead of paying full attention to the road. When you are typing on a keyboard -- even if you're not looking -- you are distracted and paying at least some attention to the typing rather than the road.

No matter how you spin your stupid "I can do it just fine" crap, anyone texting on the road is a danger and should be taken off the road. Texting while driving should carry the same penalties as DUI.

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Texting while driving should carry a MINIMUM of a one year loss of all driving priviledges for the first offense. Increase it drastically for subsequent offenses.

Just because you can't handle texting while driving, doesn't mean others can't. My phone has a qwerty keyboard and I don't even have to look at it to type a message out, and it's not like I write a novel. Yes, no, ok are perfectly fine responses. If I feel it would impair my driving in a situation I'd put it down until it didn't.

I'm the same. I don't have a qwerty, but I know the keypad well enough to type out simple responses without looking.

Edit: And 15% is not a lot of accidents involving cell phones. Especially considering that more than 15% of drivers talk on the phone while talking.

I usually talk on the phone when I talk.

Personally I won't talk on the cell or text unless its extreme gridlock where I won't be moving for that 15seconds so I don't really need to worry about anything.

To the people who talk or text on their phone (even if looking) it only takes a tiny distraction or split second where your mind is not on the road even if your eyes are that will reduce your reaction time. Every second counts when making in an emergency situation.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: QueBert
how is it dangerous for OdiN to text (without looking at the phone) while driving? I drive while eating a burrito and will put hot sauce on for each bite. This is far more dangerous to do than to text without looking. I can text without looking, and I never drive with 2 hands on the wheel. So if the phone is in my lap and I'm texting with my free hand what's the big deal?

I still don't know how eating a burrito is legal while driving is legal LOL

Yeah I'll sometimes eat a burger or something in the car. But that's okay because it's not electronic. I wonder if I could use bananaphone?

Eating takes far less concentration & attention than texting or talking. Claiming someone would have trouble eating a hamburger while driving is like claiming someone would have trouble walking while chewing gum.

Maybe for you. Why do you think that because it might be that way for you or other people, that it must also be that way for me?

Different people have very different levels of the ability to balance multiple, demanding tasks. Some can do it better than others, that's a fact.

Laws aren't designed with the exception in mind, they're designed with the masses in mind. Most people who text while driving write normal messages, stare at the phone, and are a serious danger to everyone around them. Simply by virtue of the media (text on a screen) a person cannot possibly be as alert to their surroundings as someone who isn't texting on a phone or someone who can keep their eyes on the road.

The people I've seen texting on the road spend more than 50% of their time staring at the screen and not paying attention to anything around them.