Parents: Hang up and drive!
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Anonymous
Are you at least using a hands-free set up? |
Anonymous
Who cares? Hands free is irrelevant and gives people a completely false sense of security. It's not the act of holding the phone to your head that makes talking on the phone dangerous. If that were the problem, it would be illegal to drink a cup of coffee and drive. Common sense, anyone? |
Anonymous
No you really can't. You just think you can. Multi-task when you're not in the car. Set a good, safe example. People supposedly texting are driving 40 mph on the outer loop of the beltway slowing traffic, or crossing double yellow lines when they're dialing their phone, speed up and slow down erratically b/c they are texting or dialing. |
Anonymous
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A National Safety Council survey found 91 percent of parents who use their cell phones while driving do so when their teens are in the car, despite 88 percent saying they are one of their teens' primary driving teachers. The finding underscores not only the need to help parents break the habit of driving distracted...
http://www.nsc.org/learn/about/Pages/91-percent-of-parents-distracted-driving-NSC-survey.aspx Don't wait until your kid is a teen to set good habits. If your kid lives that long...Inattentive drivers have caused more than 27,000 deaths since 2009, reports the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Their multitasking led to 448,000 injuries in 2009 alone..." However, this federal agency doesn't keep statistics on how many of those drivers had small children on board... A number worth knowing IMO. |
Anonymous
Now you're talking crazy. You are not going to get people to stop talking on phones completely while driving. How about you focus your outrage on jackasses who TEXT while driving and then expand that to those who hold a phone while driving. |
Anonymous
NP here. No phone conversations period. No texting. No handheld. No hands-free. It's just too difficult to operate a car while multi-tasking with phone conversations. |
Anonymous
For the sake of everyone else but you I hope nothing bad ever happens while you are being a total retard. And I mean "retard" in the literal sense of the word: mentally retarded person. For the sake of everyone else I also hope something serious does happen to you and you only...like you driving into a tree on a lonesome road or something because stuff like that is the only thing that will ever cure retards like you. |
Anonymous
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/21/minn-woman-says-was-pulled-over-for-drinking-coffee-and-driving/ |
Anonymous
You're also not going to get people to stop driving drunk completely, or to stop speeding completely. And yet we have laws about those things, because those things are dangerous. |
Anonymous
When you are driving a large, heavy vehicle that can injure or kill people if you collide with them, you really shouldn't be multi-tasking. You should be paying attention to your driving. |
Anonymous
| This was about 15 years ago but I saw a woman nursing b.s. t in left breadt, talking on cell with right hand and driving, I supposed, with her knees. I should have called police but was so shocked, she pulled away before I could get her tag no. She was driving a Volvo.. |
Anonymous
I'm sure that is what the man who hit my roommate thought. She's been out of work going on 11 months. Luckily, the lawsuit paid for most of her medical bills and many other damages. |
Anonymous
Hilarious that we have to define the usage of retard now. Now excuse me, im exiting the car. Get back to you when I hit the highway again 
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Anonymous
| As a frequent passenger, I have ample time to notice the obscene number of drivers who are on their phones. Texting (newsflash: staring down while driving is no less alerting than holding the phone up), talking... and you are all taking your eyes off the road for a long ass time, like 10 seconds at a minimum. If the police would write tickets, I would be snapping pics. First of you staring in your lap, second of your plate. |
Anonymous
No, you can't. But thanks for playing. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794 "Miller, a Picower professor of neuroscience at MIT, says that for the most part, we simply can't focus on more than one thing at a time." |