Posted on 03/25/2015 8:55:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Distractions -- especially talking with passengers and using cellphones -- play a far greater role in car crashes involving teen drivers than has been previously understood, according to compelling new evidence cited by safety researchers.
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Not “powerful.” Kind of dull.
Amazing what people do on the road. I drive to work on the HWY at 6:00 a.m.
Lots of people out there talking on the phone while driving... at that hour!!
If I’d call to talk to someone at that time of morning... they’d kick my a#@ the next time they saw me!!
Who the f%$# wants to talk at 6:00 a.m.? What do you have to talk about at that hour?
What do you have to talk about at that hour?
Sounds like the lonely people looking for somebody to cling to?.
It isn’t just teens. I’ve seen plenty of adults playing with their phones and driving off the road or across lanes.
I shouldn’t be too difficult to crunch the numbers and check the number of traffic accidents before and after cell phones became popular. I would guess for teens the accident rate saw an abrupt increase.
My cell phone hasn’t rang in 4 days.
I’ve had a few texts to quickly relay a thought or message to a few people. I don’t even know where it is at the moment, its probably somewhere in my truck or lunch cooler.
And I don’t care.
And I like it that way.
Female teenagers texting or bopping to loud music, Moms texting with kids in back of their car or heading to the school to pick up kids and guys chatting up their girl friends on their dumb phones while driving besides the normal male teenagers are all like demons from hell driving.
They tailgate, weave from lane to lane and change lanes when they shouldn’t and never pay attention to speed limits, any warning signs or other drivers slowing down ahead of them. When, they get to their destinations, they drive through the parking lots at road speed.
Ha! Who knows!
I have a friend who says he hardly uses his cell phone... he said: “I’m not lonely and I’m not that self-important.”
Here on campus, the kids walk around constantly looking at their phone.
It’s a joke, really.
When you hear the conversations people have on their phones, (and they make sure everyone HEARS) it is bizarre how totally stupid their conversations ARE. I wouldn’t spend 1 second talking about that crap if you were standing in FRONT of me... WHY PAY perfectly good money to have that conversation on the phone with someone you’re probably seeing on a daily basis?
It’s crazy!
Then, as I was waiting for a green light, started looking at the people turning left in front of my car. I estimated at least one in three or four had a cellphone glued to their ears.
cell phones, tablets, etc. = electronic pacifiers
You want “powerful”, watch the plethora of Russian dash cam video on You Tube.
Those videos constitute a powerful statement of Human Behavior in some parts of the world.
I have driven to work (about 18 miles) and been followed by the same car nearly the whole way, and the woman driving it had a cellphone to her ear the entire time and her mouth was moving vigorously as she talked.
Who the hell could talk to someone like that for a solid hour early in the morning?
I was amazed. I don’t really like talking to people on the phone at all, and DON’T while I drive unless it is a work emergency and I cannot pull off.
Oddly, I listen to audiobooks constantly (and have for the last 15 years)while I drive, and it does not distract me in the least. I feel completely tuned into the car, the road, and the ambient traffic situation.
However, in the very few circumstances I talk on the phone, I feel completely unsafe, as if my mind cannot handle talking to a person who is not in the car and navigate traffic at the same time.
I have come to the conclusion it is the way the mind handles the routing and processing of information that manifests itself this way.
Also, I have an iPhone, and it is no problem at all to use Siri to send a text. But talking on a phone does something unsafe.
My favorite is the last one where she swerves off the road, corrects herself, and then finished her text.
`Who the f%$# wants to talk at 6:00 a.m.? What do you have to talk about at that hour?’
“Dear, what do you mean the house is on fire and you’re trapped in the bathroom, and would you please stop screaming like that!!!?”
Ban texting and driving by not allowing smartphones to open texts while the car is moving.
problem is that would also ban passengers and bus/train riders.
Have a sensor in the steering wheel that only allows texting if the phone is more that 4 feet away.
But I do know I was not nearly as attentive as when I was not talking on the phone.
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