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Total Cell Phone Ban While Driving?
- Thread starter fourstringdrums
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It really doesn't matter hands-free versus just holding a phone, you are distracted regardless. It is pretty much impossible to do 2 things at once, your brain just flicks between the two, it doesn't give half to one thing and half the other.
I'm typing this message while watching someone work remotely on my computer, and I'm tapping my foot to the beat of "You be Illin".
-Mike
-Mike
In this topic.. Natural Selection takes out the innocent not necessarily the stupid one using the phone.
Like drunk drivers, more often than not, they kill an innocent while they walk away from the crash.
If you, talking/texting on your cellphone, only takes you out... stop the ban.
^^^^ THIS +100000000000.
If someone hurt/killed a friend or family member of mine while texting/talking an thier phone. I'm coming for them! God have mercy on them, cause I won't. I may get judged by 12 but they'll probably be carried by 6.
I've been run out of my lane by texters as well as talkers... in my Semi !
18 wheelers - for those of you in Rio Linda....
And if there was a collision, even though I wasn't using my phone, it's automatically my fault because I'm the Professional Driver - per the US DOT.
Some days it's all I can do to NOT put some texter in the ditch. 10-4?
I feel sorry for drivers like that.
(non-phone related)
Earlier this year a car crashed into a lorry and the very initial reports were putting the lorry driver at fault. Until he brought out his dashboard-camera footage:
LORRY CRASH A90 ABERDEEN LIVE ON BOARD TRUCK CAM - YouTube
Scarey stuff!
I love the dashcam... Everyone should have one with a 911 stream in cases where idiocy, drunk divers and crashes need to be reported immediately.
I had one in my Semi for a while.
Got me out of a tailgating ticket when I showed the cop that what he saw was actually the car driver in the far left lane cutting across 4 lanes and in font of me to take the exit at the last second. Ironically, he had his cell phone still clutched in the hand on the steering wheel. Nice shot of the license plate too.
He told me to have a nice day, instead of getting a citation.
It is interesting that government officials would recommend something like this even while traffic accident rates (per capita) have remained flat for 15 years, indicating that the roads are no more dangerous now than they were in 1996, before most people had cell phones.
There was a WSJ article posted in one of the first 4 pages that discussed this. Funny, because everyone in favor of banning cell phones seemed to ignore the article
So, it stands to reason that without cell phone accidents the stats would have actually improved instead of stayed flat.
No. By staying flat it seems to hint that cell phone distractions merely replaced other distractions (fiddling with a CD player, talking to a passenger, trying to settle down screaming kids in the back, billboards, etc...).
There was a WSJ article posted in one of the first 4 pages that discussed this. Funny, because everyone in favor of banning cell phones seemed to ignore the article
I don't think that article said anything about accident rate per capita.
No, they didn't replace those distractions. You've still got all those distractions. Only difference is now you have added cell phones to the list.
