It absolutely frosts me every time I see some idiot on their cellphone or blackberry (texting, yes, texting while driving). This happens everyday. I can’t imagine what is so important that they risk injury to themselves (or others whom they obviously don’t give a damn about) that they have to preoccupy themselves with a conversation (most I assume are frivolous) or message. My auto was rear ended by a 22 year old kid while I was waiting for a train to pass. As soon as I heard the screech of his tires as he attempted to stop I saw in my rear view mirror he was on his cell phone (5:30 am in the morning, who the he$$ was he talking to at 5:30 in the morning?). As I asked for his driver’s license to prepare for the accident report, he produced a ticket given his license was being held as a result of a previous offense. Guess what it was...driving while using his cell phone. If I could have ringed his neck right there, I would have. The technology is wonderful, but there is a right time and place for it, and driving two tons of steel and being preoccupied by it isn’t it.
Well here is something even more frightening, try riding a motorcycle and having the circumstance of another drivers attention being focused on something else other than seeing you.
Happens to me, now I was aginst loud pipes and headlight modulators but this is my very survival, so I have drilled my pipe out and am installing some high tech turn signals that have a multi strobe flash.
I will not answer my home phone between the hours of 11:00 PM and 6:00 AM. I feel that if is an important call they can leave a message or call back at a decent hour.