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Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!
On Jul 31, 5:50*pm, "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. If you would like to see such things made illegal, then start a separate thread. This thread is focused on cellphone distractions. |
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Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!
Tom Keats wrote:
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. I prefer curmudgeon. Go live with yourself. What ever happened to children should be seen but not heard? What is grossly unfair is that is it perfectly legal for landlords and condominium boards to discriminate against cats but not children in the state in which I live. Cats do not bother anyone, while children scream, cry, throw stuff and otherwise disturb the peace (and often sleep) of adults. -- 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.” |
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Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!
"Peter Grange" (clip) If we both get in the car we talk to each other, which must be remarkably like talking on a mobile.(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No, it's not. When you're talking to someone on the phone, that that person is not aware of your driving situation. You are aware of that fact, so you are more likely to continue talking when you ought to be swerving, braking or weighing the options in front of you. Let's say, for example, the car in front of you suddenly starts to decelerate. If you're talking to your wife, she's probably pressing on the floorboards with her feet, while you are pressing on the brake. You do not have to yank your mind back to the car, because you are both already there. If she, instead, is on the phone with you, there will be a momentary rearrangement in your thought processes which could make a difference in your safety. |
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Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:39:50 GMT,
Leo Lichtman wrote: "Peter Grange" (clip) If we both get in the car we talk to each other, which must be remarkably like talking on a mobile.(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No, it's not. When you're talking to someone on the phone, that that person is not aware of your driving situation. You are aware of that fact, so you are more likely to continue talking when you ought to be swerving, braking or weighing the options in front of you. Let's say, for example, the car in front of you suddenly starts to decelerate. If you're talking to your wife, she's probably pressing on the floorboards with her feet, while you are pressing on the brake. You do not have to yank your mind back to the car, because you are both already there. If she, instead, is on the phone with you, there will be a momentary rearrangement in your thought processes which could make a difference in your safety. Additionally, the audio quality is significantly degraded over a mobile phone as compared to face to face talking. It's astonishing how good the brain is at extracting a signal from the noise[1], but it's also surprising how much attention the brain has to divert to doing that and how little attention the brain leaves for doing everything else. Tim. [1] of course, the brain is also renouned for detecting a signal in random noise. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://www.woodall.me.uk/ http://www.locofungus.btinternet.co.uk/ |
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Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!
On Aug 1, 10:05*pm, Tom Sherman
wrote: 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. -- 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.” And I'm against breastfeeding babies while driving. Is that a problem anywhere? |
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Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!
Originally Posted by Trackerway
"I totally agree that a federal law should be passed banning cell phone use while driving. And cops should be allowed to pull over anyone they see talking on a cell phone, it shouldn't be one of those 'secondary offenses' where they have to have another reason (i.e. speeding) to pull you over." I totally agree that they should be prosecuted, but there's another dimension to it: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION. Few in society would justify the "drunks" (though at one point or another many of us do it), but cell phones junkies are often seen as a sign of "status." Actually they almost go hand in hand with the SUV, meaning "I have money to burn, and I do whatever the **** I want." So when we see it them as "junkies" and not "success stories," we may perhaps start seeing a tidal change. Of course, then enforcement would take care of the real hardcore junkies. |
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