Posted on 10/05/2017 11:08:03 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
was going to post the same, but you beat me to it, darn it!
40 seconds????
You’re a darwin candidate if you look away from the road for 2 seconds!
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
They do not cause anything. The cause is the driver choosing to pay attention to the devices.
You need a college degree, three or four hands, an instruction manual, and lots of luck just to change the time. I know because I tried to correct the time on my sister’ new car, and had to get out the manual and do seven or eight attempts before I got it set. On my ‘07 Toyota, I press either the hour button or the minute butoon, and I’m done.
It’s getting so you can barely turn on/off the windshield wipers and/or cruise control without a degree in computer programming.
“You need a college degree, three or four hands, an instruction manual, and lots of luck just to change the time. I know because I tried to correct the time on my sister’ new car, and had to get out the manual and do seven or eight attempts before I got it set”
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Just curious,will that do automatic resets for DST twice a year?
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I find the touch screens distractive. You have to look at the device and work through the menu system to get to the function you want. I’ll take knobs and pushbuttons anyday!
Okay, so 50 years of padded dashes, banks of air bags, extra brake lights, mandatory traction control/ABS, lap & shoulder belts, mandatory cameras, headrests that push your head out, and lane change collision avoidance features were all put in to compensate for the day that people would be diddling with their GPS/Entertainment/Communications devices instead of the road?
I’m surprised nobody ever went after drive through windows at fast food places as a cause of distracted driving. After all, the driver is distracted if he/she reaches for a French fry and takes a hand off the steering wheel......
* When I say "intrusive" I'm referring to an audible or visual warning that is designed to capture the driver's attention and therefore can't easily be ignored.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!”
Not a surprise at all, it’s coming from some idiot in Connecticut. He is probably quite limited in the basic functions of tying his shoes and taking his morning dump!
It always gauls me how much grief drunk drivers get when they get in an accident, and yet the smuck who runs into someone while eating his mcdonalds burger and drinking hot coffee gets no blame at all.
There's a simple reason for it. The distraction is obvious, but the consequences of the distraction have never been severe enough to warrant a lawsuit.
Do those cars come with a trunk monkey that twists the driver’s arm until they begin to play with the display?
No?
So it’s actually the dumbass driver who’s at fault for not watching the road?
Get out!
The inventor of the touch screen car radio and the CEOs who say they should be in every new car should all be hung.
And Hang the inventor the Presta Valve and the CARB compliant gas can along side of them while we are at it.
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