Pledge for no cell phone usage while driving

[supmet]

You guys want nicotine fiends on the road without their fix?

crazy... lol

and for all you holier than thou bluetooth users:

http://news.siuc.edu/news/March06/030306tw5142.jsp

If you are using a hands-free device with a cell phone, you are four and half times more likely to be in a serious accident than if you are not talking on the phone at all.

[Yaris Hilton]

As already mentioned, that's likely just as true of drivers talking to someone in the car. Which is a reason that new drivers are limited as to the passengers they can carry in most places. Get a car full of teenagers yakking, and they'll probably drive into something.

In case nobody read the link I posted above, it's to a study showing that accidents haven't gone down anywhere laws against cell phone use have been put in place.

[tomato]

Originally Posted by supmet

You guys want nicotine fiends on the road without their fix?

crazy... lol

and for all you holier than thou bluetooth users:

http://news.siuc.edu/news/March06/030306tw5142.jsp

If you are using a hands-free device with a cell phone, you are four and half times more likely to be in a serious accident than if you are not talking on the phone at all.

Talking on a headset is no different from talking to someone else in the car.

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by PK198105

in quebec we already have the interdiction of having a cellphone in our hands while in a moving vehicle, except cops dont enforece it and are actually braking the law themselves , i see cops regularly on their cell phones while driving. they say they can cause its for the job , but im sorry you have a state of the art cb system in your cruiser you're not gonna tell me they have to be on a cell phone

Our cops use cell phones too because the police/emergency radio network is quite old here. It can be easily observed by anyone. They use cell phones for more sensitive informations. We are just inventing a new network called TETRA which is more safe. Dont know how its in Canada.

[cali yaris]

Agreed. In Taiwan, we can't cell, eat, drink, or smoke in the car... and for very good reason as noted above.

there ya go -- why all the focus on just the phone conversations? eating and drinking are often ignored in this conversation.

[cali yaris]

Talking on a headset is no different from talking to someone else in the car.

Actually, that is not entirely correct. According to studies, even hands-free phone use means you are visualizing while talking, which takes away some attention from what is actually happening around you.

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

there ya go -- why all the focus on just the phone conversations? eating and drinking are often ignored in this conversation.

You are right but what is your conclusion? Using the phone should be allowed because other things are allowed too? Or other things should be disallowed too?

[tomato]

Originally Posted by slothman86

for your enjoyment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vFcIpzF7pc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGN1pLI4ZaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8LuM92Twm8

Thanks for the link, that's pretty interesting.

They are filming it Jim Russel's School (Sears Point), in Sonoma county just a few miles away from here. That's where Paul Newman learned how to race.

I know the place, took some "driving lessons" there some years back for fun (with a go-kart), got some photos around here some place. Good times

[ammophobia]

I ocassionally text while driving... and what makes me more stupid is... I'm using a touch-screen phone...

I know, gotta stop that habit...

[why?]

More laws that we don't need. great... Why don't we just ban being alive at all, because that is where this bs is heading too.

If people do dumb things, let them pay the consequences of it. Let's not make a law for every dumb thing people do, its just rediculous. Take personal responsibility for yourselves and smack your family around to do it as well. If everyone did that, there wouldn't be a problem.

You cannot legislate common sense, so stop trying.