[IamConservative]

I’ve stopped riding motorcycles which is something I loved doing.

While magnificent, our brains are really quite simple, single threaded and underpowered by today's computing standards. When people look left and right before they pull out, they are looking for a car. You can be right there in their clear line of sight on a motorcycle or bike and their brain won't register your presence because your image is not that of a car. This simplicity in how our brains process information is crippled even further with the added distraction of processing information from a phone.

[Bodega]

Yes, I, too, stopped driving my motorcycle after the death of a close friend who turned in accordance with the L turn light and was struck by a much older driver who was “proceeding straight ahead” in the oncoming lane. That driver just “didn’t see him”.

I think the penalties of driving while operating almost anything besides the car should be sky high. Even changing a CD disc becomes an issue.

Don’t ever answer the phone. You are blind to the road when you even say “hello”.

[Right Wing Assault]

Just about every day you can you can find a phone idiot driving like a drunk. Yesterday I watched a guy go back and forth from wheels in the lane to his left then to wheels in the lane to his right.

I guess he needed more practice.

[Salamander]

I know of one old, clueless git who will NEVER pull out on bike again and probably looks for them obsessively, now.

/say no more

:)