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Lucylastic -> Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 7:27:26 AM)
Legislation due today would impose fines and demerit points for use of gadgets at wheel http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/525697 Yay at last, something is going to be done here, traffic in Toronto is horrible made so much worse by plonkers using cell phones while driving. Personally Id like to be there to zap them hard with a cattle prod but its just a pet peeve Lucy

NuminousLeader -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 7:32:11 AM)
Been like that in Chicago for a couple of years now. Though you can still stuff Big Mac's and fries down your throat, because eating while driving is not a disstraction

Dnomyar -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 7:37:23 AM)
cattle prod would be a nice kink for you.

Lucylastic -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 7:43:24 AM)
heh wheres the fun in consensual zapping strangers..... ok that could be hot, but I think its the non consensuality I like:) goes off to fantasize about it Lucy

RainydayNE -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 8:49:38 AM)
ahhh i wish they'd do something similar here. people here drive crazily enough, they really don't need to be petting a lap dog AND yelling at someone on the phone at the same time. :(

LaTigresse -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 8:57:38 AM)
I've never understood the need to talk on the phone regardless of where you are. Most especially while driving! Your barreling down the road at 70 miles an hour (or 80 in my case) with many other vehicles going a similar speed, some in the opposite direction and many that are quite larger, don't you think it might be a good idea to actually concentrate on DRIVING?!?!? Can you tell it is a pet peeve of mine?[:D]

RainydayNE -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:10:11 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LaTigresse I've never understood the need to talk on the phone regardless of where you are. Most especially while driving! Your barreling down the road at 70 miles an hour (or 80 in my case) with many other vehicles going a similar speed, some in the opposite direction and many that are quite larger, don't you think it might be a good idea to actually concentrate on DRIVING?!?!? Can you tell it is a pet peeve of mine?[:D] SERIOUSLY! you'd think driving a multi-ton vehicle that can annihilate lifeforms without any effort would make people a bit more cognizant and attentive. =p

AMaster -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:16:52 AM)
There should be more regulation of use of cell phones while driving. Those talking while driving don't seem to be aware of what is going on around them. Many states here in the US have laws requiring a hands free phone while in the car. That helps a little.

LaTigresse -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:23:51 AM)
What I find really funny. I can be driving down the road with someone in the car, I hear my cell phone ring, in my bag in the backseat, and the passenger asks "Do you want me to get your phone for you?" To which I reply, "Do you want me to concentrate on driving, or on talking on the phone? Your the passenger, which would you prefer?"

slaveboyforyou -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:28:28 AM)
I don't answer mine while I'm driving; that's what voice mail and caller ID is for. On the same note; I get annoyed at people who play their stereo so loud, it's impossible for them to hear around them and drive safely. I haven't had a car stereo in 8 years. I have got so used to not having one, that it doesn't bother me anymore. In fact, it distracts the hell out of me when I drive someone else's car and they turn the radio volume up to earsplitting decibel levels. It's been shown in studies that car stereos are just as distracting as cell phones.

Termyn8or -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:34:16 AM)
From the article : " Marc Choma, a spokesperson for the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, said the industry has long advocated that drivers exercise common sense when it comes to cellphones and other wireless devices. " HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA They have got to be kidding. Look, either you can drive or you can't. That includes drinking, or just about anything. If you drive like shit, any impairment is dangerous. I got a buddy who, if we went to a party and he got toasted, I would carry him to the driver's seat. This is because he knows how the fuck to drive. Common sense ? Been on a cellphone at the wheel ? OK, you are on a long lonesome highway and there is no traffic. All you are really doing is holding the steering wheel. You might even have the cruise control set. I've been on the phone with people who said "Hold on I have to merge here". They would put the phone down and take care of business, then pick it back up. I am actually not accusing that person of having much common sense, he has proven otherwise in other matters, but at least he can drive. Of course twenty years ago he couldn't apparently, he ran straight into a tree whilst looking for a breast in a bucket of fried chicken. So do we also criminmalize take out food ? How about makeup. How about maps. How about car radios with a display that gives a picture of a racetrack (yes they have them here, but I can't see them selling in a civilized country). In most states you can be cited if there is a portable TV set that you, as the driver can see. It has been that way for a long time. Now we got XM and Sirius radios with 900 channels, just going through them would constitute a distraction. It all depends on if you can drive or not. I had a cellphone a long time ago, I refuse to have one now. When I had it, anything other than just holding the wheel and moving along I would put it down. One time I called in an accident, the dispatcher told me to hold on, I said "I ain't staying on this phone, I am driving". I don't even play the car radio when driving. Well sometimes on Fridays. Everybody needs three things in life to really grow up. 1. Lose everything you own at least once. 2. A really good ass kicking. 3. A really bad car wreck, at which time you get out of the car and see kids in the car you just hit. Once grown up you might have the common sense to use a phone while driving, but that common sense means you only use it at certain times. Not in the downtown rush hour. You either have it or you don't. T

NuevaVida -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:35:42 AM)
I talk on the phone in the car all the time. It's about the only time I have TIME to talk on the phone! Just making use of my time where I can. I'm still not sure how this is different than listening to books-on-tape/CD, or gabbing with another passenger in the car, or wailing out along to your favorite tune on the radio. I use a blue-tooth ear piece. Both hands are free. I use it all the time, whether in the car, at work, at home, etc. I drive two-handed, as opposed to the eaters, shavers, readers around me. It's really no biggy to me, to talk and drive. Now...text messaging while driving...that's a completely different story. But using my voice recognition to say "Call So-N-So" and having them appear in my ear? I don't get the rub.

pahunkboy -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:45:42 AM)
Pa law allows for tickets based on distraction and dozens of other tix that one could apply to that. I live on a busy street...and I can watch the drivers. Close enough to touch. 1 or of 4 is on a phone. I was surprised by just how many wiz buy oblivious to the peek-a-boo line of sight.. It floors me to see a carload of people and tthe DRIVER on the phone. like whats that about. I dont think we need more laws. just people who act in a careful manner.

RainydayNE -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:46:29 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: NuevaVida I talk on the phone in the car all the time. It's about the only time I have TIME to talk on the phone! Just making use of my time where I can. I'm still not sure how this is different than listening to books-on-tape/CD, or gabbing with another passenger in the car, or wailing out along to your favorite tune on the radio. I use a blue-tooth ear piece. Both hands are free. I use it all the time, whether in the car, at work, at home, etc. I drive two-handed, as opposed to the eaters, shavers, readers around me. It's really no biggy to me, to talk and drive. Now...text messaging while driving...that's a completely different story. But using my voice recognition to say "Call So-N-So" and having them appear in my ear? I don't get the rub. most people you see driving and phoning at the same time are using regular handheld cellphones. i think using a hands-free device wouldn't be all that different from talking to someone in your car or having a screaming kid in your car, but as far as cellphones that require a hand, which most people do still use these days, that's just annoying. =p speaking of eaters, i once saw a woman driving with her knees while eating a bowl of cereal. cripes.

popeye1250 -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:49:40 AM)
When the cops catch them they should confiscate the phone, put it under the front wheel and have them drive over it and crush it.

NuevaVida -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:57:03 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: RainydayNE most people you see driving and phoning at the same time are using regular handheld cellphones. i think using a hands-free device wouldn't be all that different from talking to someone in your car or having a screaming kid in your car, but as far as cellphones that require a hand, which most people do still use these days, that's just annoying. =p speaking of eaters, i once saw a woman driving with her knees while eating a bowl of cereal. cripes. Hi RainydayNE, Yes, I do see your point about the handhelds. It's a law in California that requires drivers to use a hands free device while talking. I used mine prior to the law, simply out of preference. Ear pieces aren't that expensive - prior to blue-tooth, I had a wire one. I agree with you about all the other things people do while driving though - sheesh. Btw, I haven't mentioned it, but I just love the photos you've been using for your avatar. Very striking.

faerytattoodgirl -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 9:59:40 AM)
i am in ontario.... guess what..i live on the corner of a busy intersection... we used to have those orange cross walks.... do you know what they put up now??? LIGHTS.....and only the one way!!!! no light on the street where people turn on to. how fucked up is that??? its a 4 way crosswalk...only 2 lights...not only that the lights are right behind eachother so if your crossing and looking for the light to go red so you can cross...you cant fucking see the light!!!!! not to mention how about the cars turning off the street where there is no light...when is it their turn to go??? its causing more close call accidents than the crosswalk was! ontario is messed up.

Termyn8or -> RE: Ontario limits car phone use (10/28/2008 10:50:40 AM)
popeye, I'll go with that. WHEN THE COPS CATCH THEM. In other words, if nobody would drink and drive there would be no bars. If nobody talks on a phone in a car, sell your Verizon stock. People usually get pulled over for doing something stupid. If nobody does anything stupid it really doesn't matter if they had a beer or two, or were talking on the phone. If they accepted the responsibility of getting behind the wheel, all of that would have been taken into consideration first. Well that is if common sense wasn't so uncommon. T

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