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Automotive News & Views Should cell phone drivers be singled out?
3688 messages, Last post on Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM
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Replying to: nippononly (Oct 16, 2006 12:08 pm) |
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OK, I'm admitting to full-on geekdom here, but the Mythbusters episode during which they did a driving course comparison, one with drivers near the legal alcohol limit, and the other with them answering questions on while on a cell phone? Startling results... drivers were just as impaired with alcohol as when holding a cell phone conversation that required moderate concentration.
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Replying to: kirstie_h (Oct 16, 2006 4:05 pm)
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Replying to: tpe (Oct 16, 2006 4:25 pm) Bear in mind that the rise in cellphone use has happened at the same time as greatly increased vehicle safety systems and seat belt usage. |
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Replying to: tpe (Oct 16, 2006 4:25 pm) I think it is best to just outlaw use of them in the car while moving. Easier to enforce with a law.
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Replying to: kirstie_h (Oct 16, 2006 4:05 pm) |
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 16, 2006 4:58 pm) Do you have stats to back that up. I think it is best to just outlaw use of them in the car while moving. Easier to enforce with a law. On another forum here on edmunds someone mentioned being rear ended by someone distracted by the Fuji blimp, should we outlaw that?
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...drivers who need to talk on the phone simply pull off the road and do so? Yes, this also applies to eating sammiches, reading the paper, applying makeup, changing a diaper, petting dogs etc. Whatever. This all started, I think, when cupholders became an accepted part of interior design. The implication is that drivers are such good multitaskers that they can do several things while traveling at 80 per or negotiating heavy traffic. You can't convince me it's a mere coincidence that improvements in airbag technology coincide with an increase in multitasking drivers. Yeah, I hear ya -- Why pick on cell phone users? What about all the other multitasking bumblers? It's simple -- you have to begin somewhere, and cell phone users are such conspicuously incompetent mobile irritants that they have it coming. The next time you're in a line of traffic on an interstate and can't figure out why one lane is speeding up/slowing down/speeding up/slowing down etcetc, just pass everyone and then pause to observe the lead car. Guaranteed it's an obsessive gabber trying to dial numbers on a phone keypad not much bigger than my thumbnail. Even worse is the gabber at the head of the line when the left turn arrow turns green. GO, idjit! And don't get all passive aggressive when you get the horn.
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Oct 16, 2006 5:05 pm) NOPE, just a long memory of all the yahoos that made me miss a left turn light because they were talking on the phone and not paying attention to the lights. Or sitting at a stop sign in a cell phone fog letting several of their turns go by, making me wait for them. Some times honking does not get their attention as they have an ear plug. What amazes me is how far behind CA is on this subject. Many places beat them to the punch. usually CA is at the leading edge of making new restrictive laws.
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Replying to: saabgirl (Oct 16, 2006 5:57 pm) Or someone putting on makeup, or shaving or reading a book, or yelling at their kids, or reading a map or.....point is its not always cell phone users. |
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