Posted on 08/30/2010 4:36:54 PM PDT by DariusBane
I'd respectfully say that there are two extremes for people. You got the "rule-driven" one, but I'd say the ego-driven pole would be those who put self above all.
Rule-drive will sit at the light for 24 hours if the light doesn't turn red.
Ego-driven will run it no matter what.
Folks fall somewhere along that continuum.
Either that or die in a head-on collision.
The other day some talk-show host confessed to texting while driving, it might have been Mike Gallagher.
“As for cell phone yakkers on the road, I don’t think it should be outlawed. I just think they should have them shoved up their anal orifice.”
Ghastly job! Let’s give it to Obama when his term is up!
So it’s YOUR DAMNED INSURANCE COMPANY that now enhances revenue for my lil town?
I’d find a new DAMNED INSURANCE COMPANY before I supported a Stupid F’n Law.
Jus sayn
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Yup I see a lot of single car Harrie Kari accidents. Has to be cell phones, or something to run your car into bridge at rush hour and stop traffic for hours (grrrrrrrr).
But no laws. Lets teach skills instead. Good drivers don’t seem to run cars into bridges.
LOL! GREAT idea...although you must admit that it wouldn't be any different in concept than what he is doing the the American electorate, only on a smaller scale...
Yeah he shoved a TARP up my anal canal. It still hurts. That’s one damned big species of fish!
Uh...You’re not implying that some people are capable of texting and driving are you?
I concur.
Nah just the cops.
I wrote this account a few months back on a thread about cell phone talking while driving...
I almost get creamed yesterday morning during my commute.
I have a slightly nasty intersection I have to pass through on my way to work. As I approached the t-shaped intersection on the cross of the T, the person on the right was poised to pull out onto a busy road, so I flashed the lights, gave the right to left arm sweep repeatedly, but the vehicle doesn’t move. (my right turn signal had been on for about 50 yards now...)
I am getting closer and can see the driver more clearly now, wondering why she doesn’t go, and you guessed it.
She is talking on her phone while pulling out into one of the worst intersections in my commute. Completely engrossed in the conversation while her face rotates blankly from side to side making it look like she is watching for an opening, but her eyes had this odd blank look, and you could tell one part of her was doing what she probably did every day, but the talking part was overriding her driving. Her eyes were simply not seeing the road, the cars and the traffic pattern. They were seeing something in the phone conversation.
Predictably, she then comes to life and suddenly realizes she should pull out, but has waited so long a vehicle is on her other side coming from her right in the lane she is going to pull into after she cuts across mine.
She jerks her SUV (Frikking huge Lincoln Navigator) into the intersection and the guy coming up the other side slams on his brakes and almost gets rear-ended. She stops, blocking my lane, all the way out.
I had my signal on the whole time to take the right, and now I came to a complete stop wondering what the hell she is going to do. This is now very dangerous.
I decide to cut behind her and get the hell away from that soon to be glass littered intersection (I thought). The less time you are around that, the less time you have to be plowed into.
So I step on it to go behind her, and the person in the opposite lane (BEHIND the guy who had been approaching and had to lean on his brakes) cuts sharply from his lane with obviously the same thought process I had, but...
...I could not see him and he could not see me. The two of us nearly met BEHIND that damned huge Lincoln Navigator, and we stared wide eyed at each other, both in completely the same shocked state. I wave him ahead of me, and he steps on it with excellent alacrity. He is clearly driving.
I look back at the woman driving this stupid Navigator, and...SHE IS STILL EFFING TALKING ON THE PHONE! Still sitting on top of the lane divider, both lanes stopped and traffic rapidly piling up in both directions, and...she is still looking from side to side talking.
Astounding.
They can’t do it either, it’s humanly impossible.
Cops operate a laptop, and a full suite of radios while driving fast... Really really fast. They do fine.
That charge already exists without a cell phone law.
Distracted driving.
I agree on all 6 counts. The red left-turn arrow is perhaps the most insulting.
Midnight red lights - 90% of the traffic lights ought to be flashing anyway. Flashing yellow on the main road and flashing red on the side street.
I know I am going to Hell.
I'm in the same boat. What sets me off is drivers (in front of me) who come to nearly a complete stop to turn off the frontage road.
My other peeve is hiphop baboons with the window-rattling 2 kilowatt woofers.
Oh come on meyer. Do you really think you are smart enough? Do you really think you have your self interest at heart enough to make these kinds of judgments?
Sarcasm toggle ON!
I agree with your other points as well. We have to decide if we want freedom or the tyranny of an overbearing government. I choose freedom.
The radios is no big deal, and the laptop at least isn’t a tiny screen with tiny buttons requiring intense focus for seconds at a time...they know where the keys are.
I seriously doubt any cop is typing away madly with both hands while driving through busy intersections or during a pursuit.
Cops crash once in a while too....ya don’t suppose...
Well I think your point is, that with training the Cop can determine when to use the equipment and when not to.
So good training trumps broad regulations every time.
The distracted driving laws already exist yet folks are clamoring for texting laws. I don’t get it. It’s probably more dangerous to get a BJ while driving than to text. But I don’t see people for clamoring for an anti BJ regulation.
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