Re: Re: Don't Text and Drive
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Originally posted by kravenar
There is even a push to ban talking on the phone, handsfree or otherwise, while in charge of a vehicle - with studies showing that you are substantially distracted just by the conversation.
I agree with this personally, even if it is not a proven fact. When I call someone on their cell, the first question I ask is: are you driving? If the answer is yes, I ask them to call me back when they are out of the car.
Wont talk to them till they get out of the car. I have no desire to listen to someone die in a car wreck while talking to me on the phone.
We don't need to have laws to make change, we can start making change ourselves.
Re: Re: Don't Text and Drive
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Originally posted by Loigan
In my opinion it is safer to talk on the phone and drive then it is to eat or smoke.
(At least I cannot drive and eat very well at least not without getting food everywhere.)
I think you are right because talking through a GOOD hands free device at least means you can drive with both hands. Further, eating and smoking both involve interacting with your mouth which means you will be frequently obscuring your vision. And what happens when food, ash, or the cig drops?
A woman returning home from a Memorial Day party had a terrible accident on the main road in our neighborhood in DC. She was smoking, dropped the cig, reached down to pick it up, somehow managed to knock the door ajar, fell out of the car, and ran over her own legs. She had 2 kids in the car! Fortunately, she was going up a slight hill so the car soon slowed, then rolled backwards up over the curb and hit a barrier. The kids were unharmed.
They had to send in a MedVac helicopter. The helicopter had to land in an intersection of streets in the neighborhood, and to give it room to land a fireman had to chop down a couple of street signs. It was a crazy situation.