If you are a marine, all it demonstrates is that marines can lie.
I’m thinking about those engineers (driving trains) who have had accidents with fatalities because they were multi tasking with their cell phones.
I agree here. It is not the safe thing to do. Not texting is of course safer. However, there are times you can do it while still being reasonably and effectively safe.
And they didn’t have to steer!
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Despite what you think, generally speaking, it is NOT safe to do this. I’ve had to locate many, many cellphones while on-scene at an accident. I’d wager that at least 40%-45% of them had some sort of half-finished messages being written, and that’s to say nothing about the messages that were being read. It can be a straight shot where you can see 200 feet in front of you. IT’S STILL NOT SAFE. I’ve had to pick up dead people from the middle of the street after they’ve wiped out for whatever reason.
I had to pick up a kid in his early 20’s, spinal cord injury. Probably never recover sensation below his shoulders because his friend was texting and driving. On a straight shot, residential area, when a deer started across the road. His buddy looked up, jerked, and rolled his pick-up. He was wearing a seatbelt, too.
Just because you think it’s safe doesn’t make it so. That’s one of the main reasons why it’s NOT safe; people tend to get too lazy behind the wheel, and they let their guard down, even if they don’t think they do.
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It takes more than a second to read and respond to a text. I was taught in driving school to quickly look at the gauges, look back to the road, and glance back and forth so I don’t take my focus off the road for more than a faction of a second. I’m so familiar with my car, I can adjust the music volume or adjust the temperature without taking my eyes off the road. I can reach the appropriate control without looking.
And it doesn’t matter what I say, you troll in every thread you take part in and you’re going to keep trolling in this one.
Hi-five @ Morgenstern.
Thank you for pointing out the reality of texting and driving.
I agree with your first three sentences.
Right. And when you use your phone to play music, you are not focusing on your driving and are being unsafe.
At this point, I suggest the polite choice would be to stop kicking dirt on Bullitt while he’s busily digging his own grave.
I will bow out.
My purpose was to share how texting can be done while being safe enough. If you don’t agree, fine, I wasn’t trying to convince you to change what you do. Is it illegal? Yes. Can it be done safely? Yes.
Anyone here who denies they drive without ever taking their eyes off the road for any reason whatsoever is kidding themselves.
See y’all on the road.
Bullitt, out.
Hopefully before you hit us while texting.
But he’d hit us safely.
By merely listening to it? I set it up to play before I get the car moving and don’t touch the phone for the duration of my drive. Unlike you, who thinks it’s “safe” to look at your phone for just a second. :rolleyes:
But…but kicking dirt on him is so much fun!
Ah, Bullitt… you’re such a *#@%ing putz.
Germane to this discussion. Also hilarious.
I used to make my living as a delivery courier. Back in the day I could always tell you EXACTLY when someone answered a cell phone call, because their car would swerve slightly and they’d drop about 15mph in speed. Texters are even worse than that. So to those who text and drive, as an experienced professional driver, all I have to say to the lot of you is that I hope when you crash and burn you don’t take anyone else with you. Assholes.
It makes me mildly curious how much practice one would need to really be able to text and drive (as Bullitt put it, “multitask”) with no significant loss in safety. A hundred hours? Two hundred?
And also if the United States Marine Corps is putting their recruits through this training. Hooah!
Well, I’ve driven well over a million miles in my life and I won’t text while the car is moving–then again, I’m not a super smooth texter. My BFF is a whizbang texter and she won’t text while the car is moving either. And we both know how to use the voice rec software in our phones so it’s a handsfree operation. Still won’t do it, takes too much attention from driving.
Ah, the Dipwad Duo in true form. Can’t even come up with any sort of coherent rational response (because then you’d be admitting that in fact there are instances where it’s OK to use a phone while driving) , and instead resort to your only fallback insults that amount to “yeah, well you’re a big doodoo-head”. Classic.