Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

on driving and cell phones


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> on driving and cell phones Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 7:29:11 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		http://media.ljworld.com/flattened/2006/cel_phone_ban.html?city_local
Profile   Post #: 1
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 7:51:31 AM   
ArtCatDom


Posts: 478
Joined: 1/20/2005
Status: offline 		About damn time. Cell phone driving is (when taken overall) as dangerous as drunk driving.

*meow*

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 2
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 8:43:28 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		...I sorta think it beats a dead horse. Profusly tuning a radio, eating, reading a map, in general not paying attention is a hazard.

Note the article claim earpeice cell calls are included. I never bother with an earpiece. To figit it in and that- Ild be done with the call by then.

One day- I seen a mini van come from the mall...full of people. Driver on the cell. What on earth was so important that the passengers or his driving was 2nd effort?

In public- I am very guarded what I say on a cell. No one needs to know.

My sister will travel across country to visit me on vacation...and be chained to work and home via cell. Almost like she never left. I wondered where the escape was.

Cell etiquet is being written. If I meet with a person, they have my attention. One time- my mechanic was to phone. I explain, I need to have my phone on - as my mechanic is to call.

As for call wating. Put me on hold, and I hang up after 2 minutes.


(in reply to ArtCatDom)
Profile   Post #: 3
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 8:47:36 AM   
sub4hire


Posts: 6775
Joined: 1/1/2004
Status: offline 		The ban should go further to include any person who becomes the rudest person in the world because they do not know how to use their cell phone.
Those who must be tethered to their phones while shopping.  Only holding others up because they cannot focus on the task at hand.
I don't care to hear your entire conversation. 
There are places for phones, there are places they should not be used at all.  While they are propsing a ban they should include all of the wrong places while at it.

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 4
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 8:59:21 AM   
slaverosebeauty


Posts: 1941
Joined: 12/12/2004
From: Cali
Status: offline 		Wow. Someone had way too much time on their hands to think up  that stuff. I am all for makign things safer, but that goes a bit overboard; they can always just add that to the driver's test, see if you can drive and be on the cell at the same time.

_____________________________

http://slaverosebeauty.livejournal.com/

"Friends live on in our hearts, regardless if they are here or not."

(in reply to sub4hire)
Profile   Post #: 5
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 9:04:32 AM   
lisa1978


Posts: 224
Joined: 5/19/2006
From: Kansas City
Status: offline 		Sounds like a election type proposal to me. Lawrence is a college town and there are two diverse cultures at play, (we are talking the redest of the red states) that this looks like nothing more than politicains playing to their base. Those young crazy liberal drivers!

Now I am all for banning cellphones in cars especially if hand held, but to be fair, also need to ban all things that distract and cause safety issues. I was just behind a person a couple of days ago who almost got into two accidents and held up traffic by going well under the speed limit and not committing to a lane all becasue he could not stop looking at the person in the passenger seat.

I just think laws should be fair and not pet peeves of the majority. For the record I do not ever use my cellphone while driving!



_____________________________

It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

(in reply to sub4hire)
Profile   Post #: 6
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 9:17:38 AM   
marieToo


Posts: 3595
Joined: 5/21/2006
From: Jersey
Status: offline 		I know the laws vary on this, but where I am they have the rule no hands rule.  You can talk on the cell while driving only if you use the headset.  Either way, I think its a huge distraction.  And most people dont regard the law on it.  I have seen people chatting away on the phone while trying to negotiate their way through a 4-way intersection during rush hour.  I think its insane and horribly dangerous.  There is something about talking on the phone that causes a different perspective of visual perceptions. And you can lose sight of how fast you are going or miss a stop sign etc.  I agree that reading a map, or putting on make up can be just as distracting.  Im thinking, short of an emergency, what could be so important that it cant wait until you reach your destination. 

(in reply to lisa1978)
Profile   Post #: 7
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 9:23:00 AM   
LorgromAndMiskel


Posts: 46
Joined: 6/9/2004
Status: offline 		You should watch the Mythbusters epsoide where they deal with this myth. There conclusions were that driving while talking on the cell phone hindered your driving performace the same as being drunk. That is the major reason why driving while talking on the phone at all (including using a headset) should be illigal.

(in reply to marieToo)
Profile   Post #: 8
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 9:25:59 AM   
slaverosebeauty


Posts: 1941
Joined: 12/12/2004
From: Cali
Status: offline 		In my area, its up to the discretion of an officer to give a ticket to someone who is driving while on their cell phone. I have seen people get tickets for using them; I use my hands-free or my speaker phone as much as I can when I am driving, mostly because their are bad drivers in this area who tail-gate or the like. Then again, I am a bit of an aggressive driver at times.
I am all for officers getting stricter on those who driver reclassly while on their cell, they should get jail time, that would curb things; then again, it would make our jails fuller; so a very heafty fine would work, something around $1000 for the first offense.

_____________________________

http://slaverosebeauty.livejournal.com/

"Friends live on in our hearts, regardless if they are here or not."

(in reply to marieToo)
Profile   Post #: 9
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 9:39:14 AM   
SirKenin


Posts: 2994
Joined: 10/31/2004
From: Barrie, ON Canada
Status: offline 		I am an offender.  I talk on Mine a lot for business reasons.  I also know it is very dangerous and I have seen some really scary things from drivers talking on cell phones.  My province bans talking on them while driving.  A full ban is a really good idea.

_____________________________

Hi. I don't care. Thanks.

Wicca: Pretending to be an ancient religion since 1956

Catholic Church: Serving up guilt since 107 AD.

(in reply to slaverosebeauty)
Profile   Post #: 10
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 9:39:55 AM   
Lordandmaster


Posts: 10943
Joined: 6/22/2004
Status: offline 		All I can say is what I've seen with my own eyes.  People who are driving with one hand on the wheel and one hand on a cell phone are terrible drivers.  I'd support a hands-free rule.

(in reply to LorgromAndMiskel)
Profile   Post #: 11
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 9:53:35 AM   
DarkSideOfThMoon


Posts: 117
Joined: 10/27/2005
Status: offline 		In England we've had a no-hand-free rule for a while now. Having just one hand any only half your attention on the wheel when trying to go around roundabouts etc... stupid thing to do. In favour.

(in reply to Lordandmaster)
Profile   Post #: 12
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 10:13:26 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		My guess is the cell industry will fight such a law. Im thinking there are plenty of laws on the books right now. My buddy here was in an accident recently in PA- not his fault. Even still- the cop asked him if he owned a cell phone.

Driving while sleep deprived- is dangerous.

This would be less an issue if there werent the overly glued gabbies to their phones.

Years ago- when the seat belt law was made- it was then a secondary offense. Now in many places it is not. My mom is plump. A seatbelt wont fit her.

I can relate to tensions of college brats. I live in a college town, tho a small one.


(in reply to DarkSideOfThMoon)
Profile   Post #: 13
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 10:17:17 AM   
Moloch


Posts: 1090
Joined: 6/25/2005
Status: offline 		Good, I see too many pigs trying to chomp down a Burger while plowing through lanes and talking on their phone.

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 14
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 10:31:28 AM   
IronBear


Posts: 9008
Joined: 6/19/2005
From: Beenleigh, Qld, Australia
Status: offline 		Queensland has had in law for several years now that it is an offence for using your mobile phopne unless it is hands free whilst driving with fines of several hundred dollars and loss of demerit points (loose enough and you automatocally loose your licence for a period of time) I believe the fines may be close to AU$1000 now or close to it.... 

_____________________________

Iron Bear

Master of Bruin Cottage

http://www.bruincottage.org

Your attitude, words & actions are yours. Take responsibility for them and the consequences they incur.

D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.

(in reply to Moloch)
Profile   Post #: 15
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 10:36:45 AM   
xxmstrchasxx


Posts: 423
Joined: 5/9/2006
Status: offline
quote:

Queensland has had in law for several years now that it is an offence for using your mobile phopne unless it is hands free


That's a damn good law IronBear!  They should have had it here in the U.S. long ago.

_____________________________

XxMasterChasxX

(in reply to IronBear)
Profile   Post #: 16
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 11:21:18 AM   
zumala


Posts: 1121
Joined: 6/16/2005
Status: offline 		<rant>
 
Just my thoughts on cell phones and driving...
 
DON'T DO IT!!!
 
I can't even begin to count the number of times some idiot has nearly run into me with their vehicle because they're too damn busy yapping into their cell phone.  Geez, driving isn't just something you do.  You are operating a fast moving hunk of metal/machinery that weighs over a ton.  Are you really suicidal or homicidal?  Use your brain!
 
I think it should be illegal.  If someone calls you, find a place to pull over and call them back.
 
</rant>
 
zuma

(in reply to xxmstrchasxx)
Profile   Post #: 17
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 11:29:13 AM   
leakylee


Posts: 747
Joined: 7/2/2004
Status: offline 		I admit it I am guilty of gabbing away on my handsfree sometimes. But most of it is when I am traveling, running back and forth on long trips. Attempting to manuever through traffic while chatting on your phone or texting, fiddling with the radio or other stuff just aint real bright.

love and light
lee


_____________________________

I am so not right, that I left..

(in reply to ArtCatDom)
Profile   Post #: 18
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 12:00:03 PM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		I know for me those pesky red lights get in the way when Im getting a good hummer while driving. errrrrrr, nevermind.  ;-)

(in reply to leakylee)
Profile   Post #: 19
RE: on driving and cell phones - 6/2/2006 3:46:23 PM   
proudsub


Posts: 6142
Joined: 1/31/2004
From: Washington
Status: offline 		I commented to Hubby the other day that when i take my walks in a development nearby i noticed that almost half of the cars leaving the development have drivers on their cell phones and i wondered why they couldn't just call before leaving home. Now i'm thinking they are all having affairs and calling secretly.

_____________________________

proudsub

"Without goals you become what you were. With goals you become what you wish." .

"You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts"--Alan Greenspan


(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 20
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> on driving and cell phones Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.094