Only 10 years for killing four people?
IMO, everyone who caught using a phone while driving, “hands free” or not, should be jerked out of their car and stomped within an inch of their life.
Studies have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, that your brain makes no distinction between hands or hands-free.
You are more “impaired” than if you were blistered drunk.
MD outlawed cell phones [except for the laughable “hands free”] and said it would be “zero tolerance”.
My ass.
People are still rocketing down the roads, with their stupid faces staring at them.
A couple nights ago, I got behind a car, creeping along and swerving everywhere, that I swore the driver was either drunk as hell or having a major medical issue.
When I got beside her, she was freaking TEXTING as she drove, and did not look up once in nearly a half mile.
Every time I go out on the bike, I have to deal with a dumb ass whose every thought is SO stinking important, that they simply cannot wait a minute or two, until they find a safe place to stop and grace the universe with their latest brilliant FB comment.
I have had people stop and see if I was “okay”, because I really needed to call home and had pulled over with my flashers on.
I’m sure I’ll get crap for the ‘hands free’ comment but I *do not care*.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hands-free-texting-is-no-safer-to-use-while-driving/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130612092949.htm
SHUT UP AND DRIVE!
Flame on.
Reading the ‘c’mon, we’ve all done it’ comments there.
No, we don’t.
I ignore it. If there’s something that needs a quick check, I do that at a full stop at red lights.
This is one of the reasons I’ve stopped riding motorcycles which is something I loved doing.
I pulled up alongside a car on a 6 lane urban interstate. It was dark, rainy and I could see a colored glow in the car. I was in a pickup, so could easily see in the car. This potential Darwin Award winner had affixed an iPAD to the center of his steering wheel and was playing Pokemon while driving 65MPH on a dark rainy morning. I moved two lanes over and sped by not wanting to be near when he “applied” for the Darwin.
Kroker is NOT a citizen of the UK. And the EU says the UK can’t deport him.
What does a cell phone do that a CB radio does not? I can understand the problem with looking at the phone. But if just talking to someone not present, a disembodied voice or whatever, we should have been having this problem since the dawn of mobile 2-way communication.
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