Author Topic: Should Cellular phone conversations be banned while driving? (Read 1660 times)

Ripsnort · « **Reply #30 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:08:06 AM »

Curval, the anti-gun lobbyists are winning in this country, do you not pay attention to the news?

And go start your own NRA thread if you want to discuss firearms, this is about cell phones. Thread Hijacker.

mason22 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:09:11 AM »

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Only if you're making a rational discussion with the radio.

some people can have conversations with anything. i've seen some of your posts.

ban them, or at least mak'em use hands free of some sort.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #32 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:10:39 AM »

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some people can have conversations with anything. i've seen some of your posts.

Noted! I'll refer to you as "anything" from here on out.

Frogm4n · « **Reply #33 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:11:41 AM »

5-10-life

Naso · « **Reply #34 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:20:57 AM »

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some people can have conversations with anything. i've seen some of your posts.

ROTFL!!!

Naso · « **Reply #35 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:28:58 AM »

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Naso, the study suggests that your reaction time is still considerably less than without a phone conversation at all regardless how good "you" think your reaction time is...but its just another "study"...so I digress.

And my reaction it's less quick when I am tired, or worried.

I mean that it's basically a driver's attitude, not the means that he use to distract himself.

There's alot of my friends or working partners that can understand when i am driving while talking, because I suddenly stop to talk or to listen, while my processor time it's tasked to the driving function.

It's an attitude, as the Safety Boards teach us when they talk about piloting an airplane, crew management, and all that stuff.

Dialing the number it's another matter, because you need to dirtract your motorious function to dial, your attention to see (or feel) what buttons you are pushing, and so on.

Uh, maybe this have something to do with the fact that I am left hand? (different distribution of brain use?)

Curval · « **Reply #36 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:30:02 AM »

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And go start your own NRA thread if you want to discuss firearms, this is about cell phones. Thread Hijacker.

Staga · « **Reply #37 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:38:21 AM »

I don't have any problems with cellular phones but those things you've calling "soccer moms" are really scary; especially if they are having a small childs with them.
Stupid squeakes start to play with their childs and don't understand it might be the last trip they're ever doing together.

Well maybe they can share same meat-wagon otw to cemetary.

gofaster · « **Reply #38 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:44:35 AM »

I think we should all go back to using CB radios. It was a lot more entertaining listening to group conversations. With cellphones, I have a hard time eavesdropping on the motorist next to me.

Staga · « **Reply #39 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:44:42 AM »

btw with modern phones all you have to do is put a voice-commands on and Vóila; you can make a call without dialing a number first.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #40 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:50:32 AM »

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btw with modern phones all you have to do is put a voice-commands on and Vóila; you can make a call without dialing a number first.

So you're saying that I should trade in my soup cans with the string?

J/K...I have mine programmed for voice dialing, but I still carry it in the glovebox. Thats because I'm too damned busy having fun driving to monkey around with a phone.

AKIron · « **Reply #41 on:** January 28, 2003, 10:51:59 AM »

I say ban 'em. For everyone except me that is.

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #42 on:** January 28, 2003, 11:09:31 AM »

Once saw two "baseball" moms with their Suburbans full of kids race 30 miles on a twisty, two-lane highway. Don't know if they were headed to a ball game or not, but it scared the life out of me. They were driving in excess of 80 mph on that narrow, bumpy road. When they finally got to the next town, they drove side-by-side down a two-lane, one-way street and talked to each other. I wanted to bludgeon them to death with a blunt excrement.

Shuckins

Ripsnort · « **Reply #43 on:** January 28, 2003, 11:11:15 AM »

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I wanted to bludgeon them to death with a blunt excrement.

Shuckins

I've had that problem, alittle prune juice will help you out.

Eagler · « **Reply #44 on:** January 28, 2003, 12:33:22 PM »

the mind can only truly concentrate on one thing at a time

if your talkin on the phone, you aren't driving 100%

if you are female and doing it, you aren't driving at 25%

if everyone drove with 100% concentration, accidents would be nil.. but ..

most dumb arses think they can truly multi task