Cell Phones While Driving

[Bryan22]

Wow. That's terrible. This is what i was saying with the texting, if your eyes aren't on the road.... bad things happen. Like in talledega nights when ricky was driving blind folded right into someones house. Prime example! Seriously though, hope the best for those children and your neighbor.

 

[KELLY88]

My neighbours 19 year old daughter is in a medically induced coma while the head injuries from an accident she caused heal. She was texting her boyfriend and crossed the centre line, hitting a minivan head on.

The woman driving was killed and her two young children are in serious condition in the Hospital.

I wonder what was so important she couldn't wait to get off the Highway to talk about it?

People pulling stunts like that is incredibly frightening. My brother's guilty of texting while driving almost constantly. I just know sooner or later he will end up a statistic. Not much point though in trying to argue with the "infallable logic" of a 16 year old.

 

[Beanmachine7000]

I used to text and drive all the time till one of my good friends did it and didn't make it home that night... I wait till I'm stopped now... Nothing is so important you need to kill someone or yourself over...

 

[Psychopete]

I am perfectly capable of holding a conversation while driving WITH MY EYES ON THE ROAD.

That's just like saying you're capable of holding your truck under control while you're DRUNK. You are not an exception to the rule.

This study is retarded. Teens are stupid drivers, they were stupid before cell phones were even main stream (and this is from experience).

Pete

 

[almostclueless]

Don't give them cell phones, and make them drive those new $8,000 electric cars that go 30MPH and have swappable batteries.

 

[Bryan22]

That's just like saying you're capable of holding your truck under control while you're DRUNK. You are not an exception to the rule.

This study is retarded. Teens are stupid drivers, they were stupid before cell phones were even main stream (and this is from experience).

Pete

you're retarded. lol. Talking and being drunk are far from the same thing. That's like saying when driving with another person in the car they shouldn't be talking to you because you will likely crash. My point was anything that distracts your eyes from where you're going is unsafe. So maybe if the other person in your car happened to be a hot blonde with double d's and no shirt on.... that would be dangerous.

 

[Jaymz9350]

Exactly, I mean if my car had something like that, and I really wanted to get around it I would just have an old phone (one of the many we have from past upgrades), drop my SIM card in there, and talk away... I would assume that the car would recognize a specific phone, switching phones, something easily done, negates it entirely...

From the way it sounds like it works if my parents had something like this when I was a teen I'd of just made a copy of the key and used the copy.

 

[Ozwynn]

so ..... how long for this new "Hope and Change" Government thinks this would be a good Idea for every American to have this key and be required to use it? Not talking about Obama per say, but I wouldn't put anything passed nazi Pelosi And Hairless "no nuts" Reid.

 

[Psychopete]

you're retarded. lol. Talking and being drunk are far from the same thing. That's like saying when driving with another person in the car they shouldn't be talking to you because you will likely crash. My point was anything that distracts your eyes from where you're going is unsafe. So maybe if the other person in your car happened to be a hot blonde with double d's and no shirt on.... that would be dangerous.

I love your personal attacks. We all know you'd never say that to my face.

Here's some sources:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...+on+a+cell+phone+like+driving+drunk?&aq=f&oq=

Pete

 

[rangerbum]

Just for teenagers?! Thats BS. I got T-boned by a 54 year old man because his dumb ass was on the cell phone. It should be ILLEGAL EVERYWHERE to be on a cell phone any age. Screw cars that shut them down, thats a safety hazard too in emergencies. Talking on a cell phone while driving is nearly as dangerous as driving while intoxicated.

 

[Jason]

Wow, that's scary...



If I need to crank the car up to 80 on the highway to get around a drunk driver, I do not want the insuranace company to get a stupid message saying I went to fast.

Why would you have to do 80 to get AROUND a drunk driver? Call the cops and follow him or just stay behind him until you or him turns. Passing an obviously drunk driver is about as unsafe as you can get and the fact that you find it necessary tells me these spy devices DO have a place.

 

[rangerbum]

Why would you have to do 80 to get AROUND a drunk driver? Call the cops and follow him or just stay behind him until you or him turns. Passing an obviously drunk driver is about as unsafe as you can get and the fact that you find it necessary tells me these spy devices DO have a place.

 

[Ozwynn]

I talk on the cell phone and drive ........ I have a blue tooth headset and voice dialing. I have always used a headset even before blue tooth. and conversations don't distract me from driving ........ nor anything else.

 

[Bryan22]

don't get your panties in a wad pete, didn't mean to hurt your feelings there, but if you think talking while driving and being so drunk you can't see the lines in the road are on the same plain.... you're wrong. An article written by a nobody dosen't convince me. Numbers are all that count. A person with 0.08 bAC might be drunk by law, but when you say 'drunk drivers' that's not what comes to my mind. I use that number as a refrence since that's what the news.cnet stated the study used for their 'drunk driver' basis.

I bet if they took a person with a bac of .20 against a sober person talking on the phone, they might have a different outcome.

http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/Statistics/2007Alcohol-RelatedSummary.pdf take a look at that.

figure even if every sober driver in this study was on the phone.... that's still less than drunks. Almost 3 times less. and from what i've read so far 78% of people talk on the phone will driving. so a more accurate estimate would be 2978 people on the phone vs. 9117 drunk drivers. I don't see how talking on the phone is quite as dangerous as drunk driving.

 

[LearjetMinako]

don't get your panties in a wad pete, didn't mean to hurt your feelings there, but if you think talking while driving and being so drunk you can't see the lines in the road are on the same plain.... you're wrong. An article written by a nobody dosen't convince me. Numbers are all that count. A person with 0.08 bAC might be drunk by law, but when you say 'drunk drivers' that's not what comes to my mind. I use that number as a refrence since that's what the news.cnet stated the study used for their 'drunk driver' basis.

I bet if they took a person with a bac of .20 against a sober person talking on the phone, they might have a different outcome.

http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/Statistics/2007Alcohol-RelatedSummary.pdf take a look at that.

figure even if every sober driver in this study was on the phone.... that's still less than drunks. Almost 3 times less. and from what i've read so far 78% of people talk on the phone will driving. so a more accurate estimate would be 2978 people on the phone vs. 9117 drunk drivers. I don't see how talking on the phone is quite as dangerous as drunk driving.

Its not. Its the fact that the driver has to use one hand to hold the cellphone while drive with the other. It takes concertation to actually hold that cellphone to the ear while listening. Having a bluetooth speaker helps resolve the problem. For example: without the BT speaker, it would be like walking, chewing gum, and holding a glass of water without spilling it. With the BT speaker, its just down to walking and chewing gum. Which leaves more focas on the road.

I guess the human mind can only process so much at a time. Like 1x process of mental use (talking), and 1x phyiscal (walking). It can't really do 2x processes of phyiscal or 2x processes of mental at the same time without loss of focas. And the worst of it is that driving is a 2x part process, mental and phyiscal.

And of course, some people do get phsyical while talking on the cellphones. Which probably does not work well when behind the wheel.