Never thought of that! Our neighbors will be so relieved!
I'll tell them not to smile on the next trip so they don't get bugs caught in their teeth.
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First of all I'm not an idiot, I text as well as the next guy. Secondly, are you and Wondergirl too distracted to pay attention on the internet? I clearly said "learn how to drive and talk at the same time." Talk on the phone, talk to your passenger, talk to your kids, talk to the radio or the driver that cut you off while texting. Talking is not texting.
Not a bad idea. Here in my own state, or at least in my area, DPS quit giving actual road tests to get your license. I think they've resumed that again but there's a whole generation of drivers here that didn't have to sit down with a Trooper and prove they could drive safely.
You didn't say any of that in the post that I was responding to: https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/2574839-post8.html:
I wasn't responding to anything else but that but so I'm confused by your post.Quote:
Which reminds me, instrument panels have to go. You can't be distracted by things like watching a speedometer.
It has been proven that talking with a vehicle passenger uses different cognitive processes from that of talking on a cell phone, even a hands-off one. Phone users block off everything but the voice coming out of that little contraption; their brains go into a different thinking/comprehension mode.
(If you Google "cell phone use car cognitive" -- without quote marks -- or some other similar keywords, you will bring up the sites of many university and traffic safety studies.)
I hate driving and I drive a minimum of 52 miles a day to and from work. When they come out with self driving cars I will be the first inline for one. I really don't have a problem with people talking on the phone when they are driving. I do have a problem with people doing 80mph on I-95 reading a newspaper or putting on their make up.
While I was in South Carolina last summer, visiting a buddy at Clemson, I see this guy, looked to be in his 50s, on the highway riding a motorcycle, and being a rider myself I go to check out his bike and it's a GoldWing from the Reagan administration. Has his helmet on, but that's where it ends. The rest of him is in a wife-beater, sandals, shorts, and he's eating a sub on his lap.
Since then, I looked up motorcycle fatal rates and most of them occur in the south. North Carolina especially.
So speechless has a point, if we're banning cellphones, let's go the whole nine yards because there are clowns on the road who weren't on a cellphone but are just as distracted.
Or we can just drive defensively.
All I know is if people are incapable of talking while driving safely, they shouldn't be on the road anyway.
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