And the guy that drives this car is going to give you a ticket for it!
I think it's much higher than 10%.
A woman almost hit me yesterday morning... She had her cellphone in right hand, and her left was "steering" and had a hair brush, which she was using as she talked (walkie-talkie style)... Brush brush, adjust steering, brush, adjust steering, brush brush brush, adjust steering, brush...
Almost forgot to mention: I nearly dropped my coffee...
What really annoys me about the cell phone users is how their speed drops to 5 mph below the speed limit and how they stay in the left lane and are oblivious to all the mad people who have to pass them on the right.
Usually the only time a cell talker is in the right lane is when they are right next to another slow cell talker in the left lane, making it so nobody is able to pass.
I don't understand. I can do many things while I drive. Right now, I'm freeping while I'm going down the highway. It's no big deal and ---- AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
"drivers" refers to people driving on the actual road, not the ditch,curb,shoulder,etc.
A woman passed us going 90 to nothing while doing her makeup. I told Mr. M to watch out for her before she caused a wreck. Sure enough, not a mile down the road we came around a bend and she'd flipped. Of course, she had no idea why it happened. Thankfully, no one else was involved.
Hey, kids, don't make me come back there!
Someone got paid to do this study?????
And the guy that drives this car is going to give you a ticket for it!
Well DUH! Most accidents happen when people aren't fully alert. Would we feel better if the statistic said most crashes happen when we are at our best?
The truth is, many of us are distracted at some point during ANY drive to town, we just usually get lucky and don't have the worst thing happen during those moments.
We will NEVER reduce all the distractions of life, and trying to use this statistic to achieve that through some kind of regulation is misuse of statistics. All we can do is be aware that when we are distracted, we are at the most risk of not predicting and avoiding an impending potential accident. AND... and I mean this, we need to teach drivers to better prioritize their distractions, not try to eliminate them.
Pilots spend a LOT of training time learning how to appropriately deal with distractions and division of attention. Drivers don't, unless they learn themselves. Drivers are taught to hold the wheel with both hands and look straight ahead. Heh... If I were a license examiner, I'd have applicants for a driver's license drive through town while changing the radio station, eating a hamburger, and answering the phone. :~D It's no worse than the engine failure followed by electrical failure drills during IFR approaches I had to do for my commercial pilot license.
Yes, I can drive and talk on the phone... I might ask you to hold my burger if things get hairy.
I don't know why this is news. It's more like "DUH."
(Ba-dum)
Anybody besides me bothered by those VW "sudden impact" commercials. Geez Louise. Give me some warning.
Wait a second! Where do drunk drivers fit in this survey? I was repeatedly told in driver's ed class that drunk drivers account for the majority of crashes. In fact, i remember seeing a poster that said that more people had dies as a result of DWI drivers than had been killed in all our wars. Are the researchers now saying that alcohol doesn't play as significant a role in auto accidents as had been previously thought? Something ain't right here...
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.
SHUTUP AND DRIVE!!!!