cell phone drivers

[Sailboat]

@gonzomax

I walk my beagles in the park everyday.

@gonzomax

Crossing the road is a bitch.

Did they whistle and leer at her?

[gonzomax]

Cell Phone Radiation 'Possibly Carcinogenic,' Experts Say | HuffPost Life Another reason not to spend too much time on a cell phone.
Nordberg is a girl beagle, Winston a boy.

[John_DiFool]

@TreacherousCretin

I thought I was fine at it too, until one sunny afternoon when I pulled up to a stop sign at a busy, higher speed intersection, cross traffic doing about 45mph.
I looked right and saw no one coming, looked left and saw my hand with a phone in it, and pulled out RIGHT in front of an oncoming car about 70 feet away from me.

If she hadn’t been a good driver with good brakes, I probably would have lost the use of my life. That was nine years ago, and I have NEVER talked on the phone while driving since then.

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Best post/user name combo of the week.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Procrustus

You wouldn’t even passengers to make call? My wife often makes calls when we’re out and about (if I’m driving).

I think passengers making calls will just have to be a casualty of actually trying to improve the safety of everyone on our roads. Sorry.

[Ludovic]

@Procrustus

You wouldn’t even passengers to make call? My wife often makes calls when we’re out and about (if I’m driving).

@Qadgop_the_Mercotan

And what if you’re locked in the trunk??! I think you should be able to call out then.

Then you’d be truly oot and aboot in a boot.

[Swallowed_My_Cellphone]

Can I also add that I’m getting sick and tired of pedestrians wandering into traffic while on their phones too? As a pedestrian, I’ve pulled three people back to the curb who were stepping out to Darwin themselves, and as a driver and cyclist, I’m sick of making emergency maneuvers to avoid fuckwits who step out because their distracted pea brains misread a tiny gap in traffic as the changing of the lights.

I’m not anti-cellphone, but why the fuck can’t we have enough discipline to be able to use them judiciously? It seems that people blather on with empty-headed babble because they can’t be left alone with their own thoughts or something. Most of the conversations I overhear aren’t worth the oxygen.

[Cat_Whisperer]

We were making a left turn on a green light yesterday evening, and a truck with a guy talking on his cellphone came driving up to the light; I was thinking, “Is this guy even going to pause for his red light before making a right turn?” but instead he didn’t pause before running straight through his red light. If Jim and I had been going straight instead of turning, we would have been right in front of him. He saw us as he was halfway through the intersection, and I assume he saw me yelling at him, “YOU HAVE A RED LIGHT!” He did look marginally sheepish.

ETA: I agree with you, Swallowed. People walking and talking (or texting) are also creating problems. I call the ones who just stop dead in the middle of the sidewalk or mall “Textblockers.”

[Declan]

@Cat_Whisperer

I think passengers making calls will just have to be a casualty of actually trying to improve the safety of everyone on our roads. Sorry.

You could make the law, but its not gonna be obeyed. Cops are still giving seat belt tickets out, even though most of the provinces went belted years ago.

Beyond a certain point, laws reach a glass ceiling in terms of effectiveness and enforcement. Basically the law is only supposed to be used against 2 to 5 percent of the scofflaws out there, while the remainder percentage are law abiding when parliament passes a law.

IF the law is not self policing, its a waste of time.

Declan

[gonzomax]

Detroit area is having a seat belt enforcement campaign. They are stopping non belted drivers and giving them 65 dollar tickets. I saw 5 cars pulled over at once near Belle Isle yesterday.
Yet seat belt compliance in Michigan is well over 90 percent.
I would settle for that on cell phones.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Declan

You could make the law, but its not gonna be obeyed. Cops are still giving seat belt tickets out, even though most of the provinces went belted years ago.

Beyond a certain point, laws reach a glass ceiling in terms of effectiveness and enforcement. Basically the law is only supposed to be used against 2 to 5 percent of the scofflaws out there, while the remainder percentage are law abiding when parliament passes a law.

IF the law is not self policing, its a waste of time.

Declan

I think you have misunderstood me - my plan was for all cars to be manufactured with non-removable cellphone signal blockers, because depending on people to obey the laws and not use their cellphones while driving is turning out to be the least obeyed law ever.