04-23-2015, 12:24 PM | #1 |
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Texting and driving, When will people learn to stop?
4 times in the last two days I have almost been sideswiped by someone drifting out of their lane while texting or dialing their phone. Two were young girls, one was a 30's something woman and one was a middle 20's man. All 4 were unaware of what was happening until I blew the horn.
All 4 were on 4 lane roads traveling at 40 to 55 mph... I know it's just a matter of time before one of these morons kills someone. Rant Over....
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04-23-2015, 12:27 PM | #2 |
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They need to make it a federal law that all vehicles when in motion jam all celephone signal inside the vehicle. That would fix everything right quick.
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04-23-2015, 12:52 PM | #3 | |
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Really the only thing that is going to stop this is a great leap in hands-free technologies and accessibility. Voice-to-text, syncing with car devices, etc. This is happening right now so hopefully this won't be an issue for too much longer. |
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04-23-2015, 01:05 PM | #5 |
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Or sitting at green stop lights while folks have their head face down in their phones not realizing it turned 30 minutes ago. Never worked out the horn so much.....
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I don't know how we ever evolved as a species, driving a car without having a cellphone within hands reach... that's just cray cray!
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I believe Hyundai just patented a design that jams the cell phone if it's in a certain proximity to the steering wheel. It's sad that it has to resort to something not allowing people to do something stupid, instead of people just not being stupid.
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04-23-2015, 01:52 PM | #8 | |
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You're driving through some neighborhood one evening, looking for the street your friend lives on so you can have dinner at his new house. You start to slow down to a crawl, turn your radio down, you stop talking, and stare heavily at every sign. Why?
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Didn't mean to start an argument here, just pissed about almost getting hit 4 times in two days over something so ridiculous. Can't people go more than 1 hour without checking their cellphone or texting someone? I mean if it's that important pull over and call them. I would have hated to see how these people would get along without a cell phone at all, we did it for over 100 years do why are they so important now?
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04-23-2015, 06:01 PM | #13 |
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I watched the google street view car pass me a few times yesterday. He didn't seem to ever look up from the laptop.
Egad. Glad I don't own a cell.
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