On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:14:18 +0000, Dave Head
No driver, who is even halfway sane, turns around to swat the kid in the back seat. If you really are unable to discipline your kids so they don't get in trouble in the car, you should not be allowed to drive at all.
I don't think the experience of someone who seriously considers turning around to beat their children is worth anything, sorry.
Apparently most cellphohniac drivers think differently, or the number of accidents would not be so excessively high.
Yet another DUH! 4688There's lotsa lunatics behind the wheel, and they actually do that. Not my kids - talking about other people. I don't. But others do. That's another thing - where is this skyrocketing...
No, it's not. But even if it were I'd be all for it. Make revenue by fining the (dangerous) cellphoniacs instead of people who go a few miles over an arbitrary speed limit.
Talking is not even close to as distracting as being on the phone. Plus it can be easily stopped if the situation demands it, whereas cellphoniacs usually don't want the person they are cellyakking to to know that they are not giving them their full attention.
If your kid is likely to choke on vomit or get in trouble, sit in the back seat with him and let someone else drive.
No. You have to find a place to park and then turn around to see what is wrong. If your kids get in trouble so often that this method is not feasible you need to find someone to sit with them in the back seat or do so yourself and let someone else drive.
Two or three cases a year, whereas a few thousand kids get end every year because they were in the pbuttenger seat illegally or not buckled in properly in the back seat.
If someone is too stupid to remember their kid in the back seat they need to be locked up anyway.
I remember reading of one such incident within the last year, and the kids were streetracing to boot, which probably was the main reason for the accident, whereas I read of at least a hundred bane collisions with cellphone involvement within the same time frame.
Tough luck. Safety of others on the road goes before your 'right' to gossip with your buddies.
How often does a situation like this occur? The number of rests caused by cellphones is a few thousand times greater than the number of lives potentially saved by a cellphone carrying person. And as only very few people will be stupid enough to give up their cellphones just because they can't yack in the car any more the point is moot anyway.
Btw, in Germany it is illegal to use the phone in the car and by now the fines are quite stiff plus they check your cellphone records in case of an accident. The number of cellphone carriers has not decreased at all but continues climbing.
Yet another DUH! 4691What about making driving safer? Even if a ban does not get enacted,people may realized how much a distraction CP use while driving really is...
Not at all. No one stops you from whipping out your cell once you have parked properly, which was not possible in 1978.
What a nonsense. Banning cell phones in cars will drastically decrease rests. Pitting a lone soul saved somewhere in a ditch against thousands end by cellphoniacs is a joke.
I don't believe you. And even if it were, you are in a tiny minorty as the example Germany clearly shows.
Yet another DUH! 4693Sounds like paranoia. What basis do you have for the IIHS to desire to ban CPs? (other that the fact it increases hazardous driving) How do all those incoming calls you mentioned FIND...
snip - examples of reckless cellphone usage
In Germany being on the cell while driving is illegal. And people still have-buy-use cellphones and get very reasonable usability out of it.
So how is an innocent driver 'shooting at you' when you t-bone him because you missed the red light because of your oh so important call to the movie theater?
Experience from countries (not only Germany) where cellphoniakking while driving is illegal, shows the opposite.
Who cares? Given 8 hours of sleep you will still have 14 hours and 30 minutes of non-driving potential cellphone time. And if you really have to be on the phone so urgently while in the car, hire a driver.
I have.
I prefer being available on my private phone. I don't have a landline any more because of its utter lack of flexibility.
You might want to try walking sometimes (you know, moving these two things that you use to press the pedals in your car). It is good for you, good for the environment and utterly cheap to boot.
How are your friends, who you claim are calling you in your car, reach you at the pay phone?
But you are seriously stupid enough to have a landline, that you can't use most of the day...
That would definitely be a good thing.
I am sure there are two or three others in the US who think like you. But the large majority would not get rid of their beloved chatterboxes. Germany shows that clearly.
Studies show that clearly.
Yes, two or three a year opposed to a few thousand that are saved by stopping people from yakking on the phone.
I think it would be very healthy for you if you started walking to your health club *eg*
Chris
