Mythbusters - mobile phone and car use

Mythbusters tonight is testing the `myth' that talking on the mobile
'phone while driving is as bad as drink driving.

24 Oct 2005 SBS 19:30
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Euan wrote:
Mythbusters tonight is testing the `myth' that talking on the mobile
'phone while driving is as bad as drink driving.

24 Oct 2005 SBS 19:30



I,ll make sure I catch that. THey do good science. Wonder how they are
going to find an average driver tho.

Yeah but you still see idiots break this law, mainly beema drivers, who
think their **** don't stink.
If I had a dollar for every idiot I see breaking this law, I would be very
rich, I could give up work.
"dave" wrote in message
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Euan wrote:
Mythbusters tonight is testing the `myth' that talking on the mobile
'phone while driving is as bad as drink driving.

24 Oct 2005 SBS 19:30



I,ll make sure I catch that. THey do good science. Wonder how they are
going to find an average driver tho.

Orlando wrote:
Yeah but you still see idiots break this law, mainly beema drivers, who
think their **** don't stink.
If I had a dollar for every idiot I see breaking this law, I would be very
rich, I could give up work.
"dave" wrote in message
. ..

Euan wrote:

Mythbusters tonight is testing the `myth' that talking on the mobile
'phone while driving is as bad as drink driving.

24 Oct 2005 SBS 19:30



I,ll make sure I catch that. THey do good science. Wonder how they are
going to find an average driver tho.




I think I mentioned on this forum. I was stopped at the auburn and
Burwood lights in Hawthorn. A woman in a gold 350 SLC mercedes turned
right across the nose of a roady going straight thru the intersection ..
He swerved and yelled.. She stopped over the ped crossing on the road
she was turning into.. and he rode pointedly around the front.. telling
her to get of the phone. SHe had a phone in one hand and the other hand
on the wheel.. STILL and hadnt stopped talking.

Yeah in some cases it should be a death penalty offence.

Dave

Euan Wrote:
Mythbusters tonight is testing the `myth' that talking on the mobile
'phone while driving is as bad as drink driving.

24 Oct 2005 SBS 19:30
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Euan | ~~ _-\,
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Not sure why they are bothering as there have been a number of studies
in different countries that have indicated that both using a hand held
and hands free was dangerously distracting.

Anecdotal evidence I know but dinner conversation came around to this
subject the other and a number of people admitted to missing a turn off
or similar occurence while using a hands free.

God help us soft targets.

CC


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cogcontrol

cogcontrol Wrote:
Not sure why they are bothering as there have been a number of studies
in different countries that have indicated that both using a hand held
and hands free was dangerously distracting.


as a public service? The scientific studies have had no effect, but
maybe Mythbusters can make a difference. Will the commercial 'science'
show pickup this segment?


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aeek

"dave" wrote in message ...

I,ll make sure I catch that. THey do good science.

A good TV representation of science - maybe, good science - no.

Parbs

Parbs wrote:
"dave" wrote in message ...

I,ll make sure I catch that. THey do good science.


A good TV representation of science - maybe, good science - no.

Parbs



A experiment that is well designed to test a hypothesis and does so.
Hmmmmm thats my definition of good science whether or not cameras are
involved. What prey tell is yours?

On 2005-10-24, dave (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
Parbs wrote:
"dave" wrote in message ...

I,ll make sure I catch that. THey do good science.


A good TV representation of science - maybe, good science - no.

A experiment that is well designed to test a hypothesis and does so.
Hmmmmm thats my definition of good science whether or not cameras are
involved. What prey tell is yours?

Not having to perform an experiment over 5 separate episodes before
they finally got the result that basic physics implies they ought to
have gotten first time if they did their calculations half decently?


Or weakening a bridge so substantially, that the result they tried to
show of an oscillation in a bridge was so unconvincing that it was not
possible to say it was oscillations that killed it.

Or tonight's -- should crash test dummies be reused? Are their joints
the same strength each time they put it back together again?

A lot of their show seems to be focussed on blowing things up. Very
pretty, but not very scientific.

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TimC
You cannot kill Tim without fracturing eternity. -- sjc on AFDA

TimC Wrote:

Or tonight's -- should crash test dummies be reused? Are their joints
the same strength each time they put it back together again?

A lot of their show seems to be focussed on blowing things up. Very
pretty, but not very scientific.

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TimC
You cannot kill Tim without fracturing eternity. -- sjc on AFDA
Buster's leg did seem to keep coming off in the same spot didn't it!

What's wrong with blownin' stuff up!!!!


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SuzieB