Posted on 04/21/2006 10:57:09 AM PDT by JZelle
That would make them 'aimers'... in my experience, 40-50% of the drivers I see on the road...
one more reason I'm happy with the 130db airhorn upgrade.
If distracted drivers were only a danger to themselves I would be all for the law of jungle, the problem is they aren't.
OK, I'm a cellphone hater now. It comes with strange powers... I can tell an idiot on a cell phone long before I can confirm it, 9 times out of 10.
How do you explain that?
I love my H-D, but I got to admit the stock horn on that thing is very faggy. I got fairly loud Vance & Hines Straightshots, though.
Folks do NOT drive while doing anything but driving.
Not realistic. Better: Learn how to multi task and divide attention appropriately while driving.
Also, avoid diverting your attention from driving during crucial moments: heavy traffic up ahead, curvy or narrow stretch of road, pedestrians. I won’t adjust the radio, have a drink of water, etc., until I’ve passed such hazards.
As for chatting with passengers, I will occasionally say “just a sec” when approaching a challenging section of road, and then continue the conversation afterwards.
Sure - I do that too... That's prioritizing.
Eight out of 10 medical mistakes involve doctors who are distracted by plaintiffs' attorneys.
Yet, I find that companies often insist on publishing employee cell numbers and customers often call them with mostly non-urgent business before they even try a regular line, assuming it's more likely you'll pick up.
I used to have a message on my phone telling people to call my regular line if they wanted to reach me. Juggling and having to pick up multiple VM boxes in the field just adds to the cell phone danger.
I completely agree.
All those people that think they really pay attention all the time when they drive and don't "allow" distractions-- they're dangerous.
Whatever a driver is looking at leaves at least six or eight things that they are not looking at, but should be. The trick is to predict, recognize and prioritize, and always assume that there is something about to happen that can kill you or somebody nearby. Because there is.
If you cannot maintain appropriate control of a vehicle in the face of a few additional distractions like a phone ringing, a child screaming, a low-flying jet or fireworks going off... then you *should not* be driving at all.
It's not the phone that's the problem it's the driver that is paralyzed by have three things to do at once. Sometimes there are three things to do.
WELL PUT.
SHUTUP AND DRIVE!!!!
Yes. It's subconciously easier to temporarily ignore a passenger because you know that they know what's going on. Maybe you don't have that problem, but you're in the minority. There are several studies on this.
I've never had it be a problem... To me, it's assumed I'm driving first... Pilot training again... On emergency procedures... You pick up the radio and talk ~after~ you do all the other things that need done.
This is a way of training your brain, not something that is impossible for people to master. Pilots do it every day. That some people have trouble with distractions does not mean none of us can handle it. A free country doesn't write the rules for the lowest common denominator.
Sure. Like I said, you're in the minority.
That some people have trouble with distractions does not mean none of us can handle it. A free country doesn't write the rules for the lowest common denominator.
Absolutely, and I don't support more laws. I do support making people aware that most of us don't multitask nearly as we think we do.
There should be a law that any driver that wasn't concentrating specifically on avoiding the accident that was about to happen should go to jail for life without parole.
For better or for worse, that's the normal way of driving today. I've seen cops drive that way. As long as your cruising well above the speed limit, and the lane to your right is otherwise occupied, f-em all. But if you're a truck (semi, tanker, or particularly a fig-leaf covered dump truck spewing paint-chipping debris) or one of those cellphone talkers who decide it's best to play Grand Marshall of the Parade in the left lane, I'll only say that you're lucky I don't have a front-mounted rocket launcher.
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