Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:47:12 -0700, KingOfTheApes wrote:


Drivers on Cell Phones Are as Bad as Drunks

And have you seen where the law abiding section of the phone toting
Sterling Mossi choose to pull up when answering their phones? They are
stop immediately without regard to where they may be. On bends on islands
on junctions on the pavement on double yellows.... It's as if they are
acting out some perverse retaliation for a law which rankles with them.

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"KingOfTheApes" wrote in message
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This is a study from 2006, but since the authorities and politicians
have not acted on it or even talked about it, we must assume TRAFFIC
SAFETY IS NOT IN THEIR LIST OF PRIORITIES. And since CYCLISTS HAVE THE
MOST TO LOSE from a collision with the cell phone junkies and drunks,
we must place them in the "most wanted" list of criminals. Oh, the
authorities and politicians could be their accomplices if this were a
court of justice.

Drivers on Cell Phones Are as Bad as Drunks

Utah Psychologists Warn Against Cell Phone Use While Driving

"A student talks on a hands-free cell phone while operating a high-
tech driving simulator. The simulator was used during a University of
Utah study that found motorists who talk on cell phones while driving
are as impaired as drunken drivers with blood-alcohol levels at the
legal limit of 0.08 percent."

http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=062206-1

NOTE: Some states are found to be totally innocent since they have
passed cell phone restrictions.


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And having an un-muzzled 2 year old screaming his/her head off in the
backseat is a distraction as well...probably in the 0.10 equivalent range!

Changing the radio station distracts you, so why not legislate and disable
that function if the car is in motion? Driving will always have
distractions. The world will never be a perfectly safe place to live. The
sooner people accept this and learn to live life anyway, the happier they'll
be.

Just be happy...

Mark C.

On Jul 31, 5:50*pm, "Mark C." wrote:
"KingOfTheApes" wrote in message

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This is a study from 2006, but since the authorities and politicians
have not acted on it or even talked about it, we must assume TRAFFIC
SAFETY IS NOT IN THEIR LIST OF PRIORITIES. And since CYCLISTS HAVE THE
MOST TO LOSE from a collision with the cell phone junkies and drunks,
we must place them in the "most wanted" list of criminals. Oh, the
authorities and politicians could be their accomplices if this were a
court of justice.

Drivers on Cell Phones Are as Bad as Drunks

Utah Psychologists Warn Against Cell Phone Use While Driving

"A student talks on a hands-free cell phone while operating a high-
tech driving simulator. The simulator was used during a University of
Utah study that found motorists who talk on cell phones while driving
are as impaired as drunken drivers with blood-alcohol levels at the
legal limit of 0.08 percent."

http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=062206-1

NOTE: Some states are found to be totally innocent since they have
passed cell phone restrictions.

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"Riding a bike costs peanuts --which is why monkeys love biking"

http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote88

And having an un-muzzled 2 year old screaming his/her head off in the
backseat is a distraction as well...probably in the 0.10 equivalent range!

Changing the radio station distracts you, so why not legislate and disable
that function if the car is in motion? Driving will always have
distractions. The world will never be a perfectly safe place to live. The
sooner people accept this and learn to live life anyway, the happier they'll
be.

Just be happy...

Mark C.- Hide quoted text -

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Just be happy... Hey, that calls for a few drinks while driving! Party
like it's 1999 until you get stopped by the police or kill someone.
Cheers!

In rec.bicycles.misc Leo Lichtman wrote:

The study was based on driving with a hands-free phone. So California
passed a law making it illegal to drive while holding a phone to your ear,
while hands free is still legal. If anything, that will make matters
worse, because you won't be able to look at a driver and know whether he is
drunk-equivalent.

Talking on a phone, hands free or not, is a channel which sucks your
attention away from driving.

This is pretty much my opinion also. In a couple years (decades) we'll
end up just banning talking on the phone while driving. Just like we
did with drinking and driving.

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Dane Buson -
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not
take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
-- Booth Tarkington

In rec.bicycles.misc Mark C. wrote:

And having an un-muzzled 2 year old screaming his/her head off in the
backseat is a distraction as well...probably in the 0.10 equivalent range!

Changing the radio station distracts you, so why not legislate and disable
that function if the car is in motion? Driving will always have
distractions. The world will never be a perfectly safe place to live. The
sooner people accept this and learn to live life anyway, the happier they'll
be.

Most of these are momentary distractions (with the exception of the
spaztastic child possibly). And even though they are momentary, you
hear all the time about people crashing their car while doing precisely
these things. People are on the cell phone for hours at a time (in many
cases). That's not a momentary distraction, that's a completely
avoidable long-term disability to your driving.

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Dane Buson -
Performance:
A statement of the speed at which a computer system works. Or
rather, might work under certain circumstances. Or was rumored
to be working over in Jersey about a month ago.

Dane Buson writes:

Talking on a phone, hands free or not, is a channel which sucks your
attention away from driving.

This is pretty much my opinion also. In a couple years (decades) we'll
end up just banning talking on the phone while driving. Just like we
did with drinking and driving.

In a couple of decades, we'll probably have deployed collision-
avoidance electronics in cars that will compensate for the level
of driver distraction related to cell-phone use.

Just something like cruise control systems that use low-powered
radar to keep a safe distance from a car ahead would make a
difference.

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Mark C. wrote:
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And having an un-muzzled 2 year old screaming his/her head off in the
backseat is a distraction as well...probably in the 0.10 equivalent range!...

I am all for banning carrying children in motor vehicles.

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“Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken /
She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”

In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:
Mark C. wrote:
...
And having an un-muzzled 2 year old screaming his/her head off in the
backseat is a distraction as well...probably in the 0.10 equivalent range!...

I am all for banning carrying children in motor vehicles.

You're a curmudgeon.

And that ain't exactly your most endearing trait.

I suspect the Dali Lama is a latent/supressed
curmudgeon too.

You need to regain/rediscover your patience.

So do I. A little.

I recommend an hobby. But maybe not watch repair.


cheers,
Tom

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Tom Keats wrote:
In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:
Mark C. wrote:
...
And having an un-muzzled 2 year old screaming his/her head off in the
backseat is a distraction as well...probably in the 0.10 equivalent range!...
I am all for banning carrying children in motor vehicles.

You're a curmudgeon.

And that ain't exactly your most endearing trait....

Hey, I love children. They are delicious.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
“Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken /
She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”

In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:
Tom Keats wrote:
In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:
Mark C. wrote:
...
And having an un-muzzled 2 year old screaming his/her head off in the
backseat is a distraction as well...probably in the 0.10 equivalent range!...
I am all for banning carrying children in motor vehicles.

You're a curmudgeon.

And that ain't exactly your most endearing trait....

Hey, I love children. They are delicious.

Okay, Swifty.

Ya ogre, ya.

Go live with yourself.


cheers,
Tom

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I'm really at:
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