Yet another DUH! 4689

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:46:40 +0000, Dave Head

And the fact that other people do stupid things relates to your 'right' of doing something exquisitely stupid exactly how?

Turning around is already illegal (careless driving).

Cars have been getting much safer over the last few years. The rest rate OTOH has almost leveled out, because a certain risk factor offsets the positive effect from the safety gains.

I'm all for it. Nicotine increases reaction times, fiddling with cigarettes distracts.

Only at the wheel.

OK with me, even though the safety gain would be minute in relation to the gain when outlawing cellphones.

If you are unable to concentrate on driving you need to return your driver's license because you are apparently an unfit driver.

Remember the experiment they did on Mythbusters? They were talking in the car on both the test run and the phone run. Test run: Good results, phone run: Half the obstacles run over. IOW: Talking doesn't significantly distract, yakking on the phone does.

Most people won't even let go of their freaking cellphone when they wreck.

The average parent is not. And even if they did, it is illegal and for good reason, just as cellphoniakking at the wheel should be illegal. Btw, since when is a bad act by someone else an excuse for a bad act committed by you? "He smoked on the bus, so I am to cut his throat"...

It's called emergency lane and it is present almost everywhere on the interstates.

How often does that happen? Once a year? Twice? Kids get end in traffic accidents every day because they were sitting where they are not supposed to sit: In the front seat. The chance of accidentally being parboiled because a braindead parent forgets them in the back seat is smaller by a very large factor thant the chance of being squashed or smashed because the braindead parent was too stupid to put the kid where it belongs: In the back seat.

Don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out.

Double nonsense. One, only a tiny fraction of a percent of cellphoniacs will give up their chatterbox just because they can't use it for 10% of their day. I am almost sure that even though you are whining so loudly you would not give up yours either, you are much too addicted to it. And even if 10% would give up their chatterbox the rest rate would nosedive. The number of people bleeding to rest on the freeway because no one can call help is very close to zero nowadays and will not be noticeably higher if a few people give up their gossip machine.

Yes, I am making an educated guess. A lot more educated than your whining 'oh no, I can't babble for an hour, how horrible!'

Not really, because I am quite certain that you are not going to give up your chatterbox either, even though you threaten to do so in here, because aside from your 'i might be able to save a guy bleeding to rest' you have shown zero positive aspects of cellphones for safety.

And I say you are just saying that, because you are much too addicted to actually do it.

Good riddance then, when you have to get rid of it.

My cellphone plan is cheaper than my landline plan was. I am certainly not stupid enough to go back to a landline.

Germany shows that a cellphone ban for drivers has no negative impact on the number of cellphones in the general population and a decidedly positive impact on safety.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either you get rid of your cellphone, then don't whine about being in communication limbo (as you don't need your cellphone outside your car anyway according to your own words) or you don't.

And it would be much lower with the recent improvements in car safety if not a bunch of cellphone addicted morons would increase the risk.

Who cares whether you have a cellphone or not? The world will continue spinning if you drop dead or get rid of your cellphone. Your threat impresses exactly nobody.

But almost every American wishes that German safety, traffic education and discipline were here.

You really have no idea what you are talking about. Munich to Hamburg is a 5-10 hour drive depending on traffic.

If you really can't live with the large distances, move somewhere, where the distances are shorter.

Boo-hoo!

You apparently are living in the wrong place, but that doesn't impress anyone either. Face it, the world will not even notice if you make true on your terrible threat.

Quite likely you merely didn't notice the last time you missed a red light because you were too busy with the phone.

Again, no one cares whether you live in the wrong place. Germany shows that people have cell phones and use them, although they are not allowed to do so in the car. Which shows that your oh so horrible 'negative safety impact' because one Dave Head doesn't have a cellphone any more in reality does not exist nor will.

Why not? I don't use up my cellphone minutes anyway, so why not use the cellphone when I have to make a call? Whether at the office (no recording, no billing problems, no dispute with the boss), at the store (should I pick up this or that while I am at it?) or at home (free long distance and free unlimited night and weekend minutes), the cellphone usually is the better deal. When I dont want it at my ear I use a headset, which makes the whole thing even comfortable. Sitting on my balcony in my comfortable chair making a phone call beats yanking wires and dialing dial-around numbers by a mile.

Then you apparently don't have a legitimate need for one, so get rid of it. No one is going to have to go to bed hungry just because you decide to get rid of a service.

I am serious. Dead serious. If you can't afford a driver, concentrate on driving instead of yakking.

Sure. Every day. And in the evening you switch off the forwarding. Sure.

I pity you.

Guess what? I don't care. You live in the wrong place, that's not my problem. And certainly no reason for endangering others. You made the decision to live there, now suffer the consequences.

Then you don't need a cellphone.

Use a pay phone.

Wow, that clown has a cellphone and goes to any lengths to not use it. You are either one of the stupidest people who ever lived or you have a very vivid imagination.

Congratulations, you don't need it so do us all a favor and get rid of it.

You can't be serious! No one can be that stupid and still remember to breathe. Your imagination is indeed priceless, you should try your hand on a novel.

Why in all the world would you have a land line so you have to forward your number all the time when you have a perfectly serviceable cellphone?

The consequences are not going to be noticeably different than they are in Germany. People know that a cellphone is a comparatively inexpensive convenience and have it for that reason. Granted, almost no one is stupid enough to worry about forwarding his landline all day when he has a cell. If a handful of people don't need their cellphones any more the world will continue spinning, the cellphone companies will continue to make money and the road safety is not going to be compromised.

All the better, then you can save health club fees.

Chris