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Dashboard Devices Causing More Distracted Driving: AAA
NBCConnecticut ^ | 10/5/17

Posted on 10/05/2017 11:08:03 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

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Another NO SHYT, SHERLOCK MOMENT! How much did this study cost? Where's Everytown for Driver Safety? Or Moms Demand Safer Drivers?

1 posted on 10/05/2017 11:08:03 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

was going to post the same, but you beat me to it, darn it!


2 posted on 10/05/2017 11:09:27 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Impala64ssa

40 seconds????

You’re a darwin candidate if you look away from the road for 2 seconds!


3 posted on 10/05/2017 11:09:59 AM PDT by z3n
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To: Impala64ssa

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!


4 posted on 10/05/2017 11:10:45 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: Impala64ssa

They do not cause anything. The cause is the driver choosing to pay attention to the devices.


5 posted on 10/05/2017 11:10:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (*slam is a violent political movement that hides behind the illusion of religion.)
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To: Impala64ssa

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.


6 posted on 10/05/2017 11:12:44 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Impala64ssa

As if nobody ever thought of that before!/s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksPRXokdKyo


7 posted on 10/05/2017 11:13:49 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Impala64ssa

It’s getting so you can barely turn on/off the windshield wipers and/or cruise control without a degree in computer programming.


8 posted on 10/05/2017 11:14:07 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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“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”

Just curious,will that do automatic resets for DST twice a year?

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9 posted on 10/05/2017 11:16:39 AM PDT by Mears
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To: I want the USA back

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!


10 posted on 10/05/2017 11:17:09 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Impala64ssa

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?


11 posted on 10/05/2017 11:17:44 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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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......


12 posted on 10/05/2017 11:17:56 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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You cannot put an intrusive* device in a car that the driver is not used to seeing or hearing, and then expect the driver to ignore it. The ergonomics of the driver and the car are critical to the safe function of the vehicle.

* 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.

13 posted on 10/05/2017 11:20:06 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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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!


14 posted on 10/05/2017 11:20:12 AM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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I’ll take knobs and pushbuttons anyday!

I'll take true knobs any day. On most alarm clocks, setting the clock backwards ONE MINUTE usually requires holding a minute button or pushing repeatedly 59 times and then the hour button, too. On an old fashioned plug non-digital clock, a little twist, and you are done.

And what the heck happened to the BALANCE control that used to be on EVERY car stereo?
15 posted on 10/05/2017 11:20:30 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Impala64ssa

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.


16 posted on 10/05/2017 11:21:00 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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I’m surprised nobody ever went after drive through windows at fast food places as a cause of distracted driving.

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.

17 posted on 10/05/2017 11:22:09 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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On a car with GPS, why would you even need to set the time? The GPS knows what time it is, and what timezone you're in.
18 posted on 10/05/2017 11:23:49 AM PDT by zeugma (I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum. —Hank Green)
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To: Impala64ssa

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!


19 posted on 10/05/2017 11:25:01 AM PDT by Augie
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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.


20 posted on 10/05/2017 11:25:44 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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