Cell phones while driving

[R.Markus]

There is NOTHING, NO PHONE CALL that is so important that you have to take it on the move.

There's no reason not to.

[Roadhound]

The most shocking thing about this thread is just how many of you drive cars.

Hands free is a bunch of crap, it's the mind not the hands.

Those of you who use a cell phone while driving, you drive just like the other cellphone talkers you bitch about. You just can't see yourself.

It's an addiction, get help.

[et]

The most shocking thing about this thread is just how many of you drive cars.

Hands free is a bunch of crap, it's the mind not the hands.

Those of you who use a cell phone while driving, you drive just like the other cellphone talkers you bitch about. You just can't see yourself.

It's an addiction, get help.

  +1000  
The people who say they have no problems talking on the cell phone while driving; are the jerks who cut other drivers off, don't go when the light turns green, drive in the left lane doing 15mph BELOW the flow of traffic, change lanes without signaling or looking, etc ....
They're just too damn busy with their phone conversation to realize what trouble they are actually causing !

--ET

[chornbe]

I have bluetooth in my car. I press a button on the steering wheel and the phone either answers or I can voice dial somebody. My hands never leave the wheel and to me it's no different then talking to a passenger in the car.

There was a study done suggesting that the disconnected nature of the conversation (the person not being there with you) actually increases the distraction more than any hands on / hands-free argument would seem to suggest. No, I can not cite the source just now - I remember reading it.

[R.Markus]

The most shocking thing about this thread is just how many of you drive cars.

Hands free is a bunch of crap, it's the mind not the hands.

Those of you who use a cell phone while driving, you drive just like the other cellphone talkers you bitch about. You just can't see yourself.

It's an addiction, get help.

 

[bluepoof]

Those of you who use a cell phone while driving, you drive just like the other cellphone talkers you bitch about. You just can't see yourself.

It's an addiction

This was certainly true for me.  I made the conscious decision to stop using the phone while driving (for talking, texting, whatever) and I was honestly surprised how hard it was for me.  It took a couple of weeks before I stopped reaching for the phone at red lights, or just glancing at it if it made a "you've got mail" beepboop, or thinking, "oh, I could just call my mom."  It was honestly creepy for me to realize how distracted I had been without realizing it at all.

[kevin_stevens]

Just came back from lunch, where the *second* driver in less than a week backed into my bike.

This one looked up, phone tightly clamped to ear, and said brightly "Oh, did I bump into your bike?"

"Yes, but thank God, it didn't interrupt your phone conversation."  Turned and walked off...  

KeS

[kevin_stevens]

http://www.abc15.com/content/news/northeastvalley/fountainhills/story/Valley-man-bitten-by-rattlesnake-while-hiking-and/CzWrMtf11EiZLxwEisoIdQ.cspx

[LoVel]

TEXTING causes snake bites.  

[hig4s]

There was a study done suggesting that the disconnected nature of the conversation (the person not being there with you) actually increases the distraction more than any hands on / hands-free argument would seem to suggest. No, I can not cite the source just now - I remember reading it.

There are a lot of studies out there that have no scientific basis, where a bunch of people throw out info and come to a conclusion with out actual proof or data.. The Meese report comes to mind.

[Mrs. DantesDame]

There are a lot of studies out there that have no scientific basis, where a bunch of people throw out info and come to a conclusion with out actual proof or data.. The Meese report comes to mind.

You mean like my study of people I see on the way to/from work, yammering on their phone and not even cognoscente that they're on a public road?    I don't think it takes anything "official" to suggest that driving while talking on the phone is a bad idea.

[hig4s]

You mean like my study of people I see on the way to/from work, yammering on their phone and not even cognoscente that they're on a public road?    I don't think it takes anything "official" to suggest that driving while talking on the phone is a bad idea.

And if we allow it to take nothing "official", to convince politicians to make laws outlawing some or all cell phones without proof one way or the other as to whether there is a difference between hands free and non hands free risks, then what other laws might we have thrown at us with no "official" data once it becomes the accepted way of doing things.

Right now there is a push in several state to once again to limit HP on motorcycles, with no "official" data what's to stop them from taking it to the same view and just ban all sport bikes, because it is obvious from just driving around almost any place that has a sport bike night you will see enough wheelies and stunters to suggest that letting people ride sport bikes is a bad idea.

[LoVel]

And if we allow it to take nothing "official", to convince politicians to make laws outlawing some or all cell phones without proof one way or the other as to whether there is a difference between hands free and non hands free risks, then what other laws might we have thrown at us with no "official" data once it becomes the accepted way of doing things.

Right now there is a push in several state to once again to limit HP on motorcycles, with no "official" data what's to stop them from taking it to the same view and just ban all sport bikes, because it is obvious from just driving around almost any place that has a sport bike night you will see enough wheelies and stunters to suggest that letting people ride sport bikes is a bad idea.

I bet you think you drive very well when your drunk also.