Originally Posted By: oldmaninsc
Originally Posted By: rg200amp
Should we also out law having conversations with passengers that are in the car?
How a bout deep thinking while driving?
How about thinking all together. Because trying to decide if your joking with your post, or if you are really that in favor of government controlling everything and anything you do is really mind boggling to me. I may crash into a group of kids since I am so caught up with this thought. . . .
I need to be pulled over by the police. This is getting out of hand.
Heck, not a SINGLE person would die or get hurt from an auto accident if ALL CARS where banned.
So, you need to be in favor of banning ALL CARS?
So. If you drive a car, you do not care about people nor life and you should be ashamed with yourself.
Keeping it real,
Steve
Keeping it real? Are you serious? Can anyone in their right mind say that you have a RIGHT to text - which involves using at least one hand and taking your eyes off the road for up to several seconds at a time?
Personally I really don't have a problem with people TALKING on the cell while driving
IF (notice the IF) they can do it and drive at the same time. Sadly that leaves out at least half the drivers on the road.
At 60 MPH you are covering roughly 90 feet a second. If you look away for even 4 seconds, you've gone the entire length of a football field (plus some) with your eyes off the road.
I'm not usually in favor of more laws - I'd love to see the ones we already have enforced. But due to advancement in technology, this is something that wasn't an issue back when MOST of the traffic laws were written.
It sure appears like texting was the cause of the accident involving the 19 year old driving the pickup.
"
A 19-year-old pickup truck driver involved in a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year sent or received 11 texts in the 11 minutes immediately before the accident, federal investigators said Tuesday.
The driver sent six texts and received five texts, with the last text just before his pickup traveling at 55 mph crashed into the back of a tractor truck, beginning a chain collision."
A while back here in Ca. we had a commuter rail accident that killed 25 people in California in which the train engineer was texting. These are just two examples - I see people doing it all the time - even on the freeway here. One night my daughter and I were following what we thought was a drunk driver. Here it was a teenage girl texting!
It sure is hard to tell the difference!
Accidents are caused by MANY THINGS. Falling asleep at the wheel, day dreaming, people driving badly, people acting like a fool while driving, texting, putting on make up, eating, drinking, young people that do not know how to drive right, old people that can not drive right, taking your eyes off the road to play with your GPS, change the radio station, look for the work i.d. badge you dropped, dealing with your kids in the car, ect. . . . a lot of the time, Accidents JUST HAPPEN.
The ONLY way to save people's lives from being lost in auto accidents is to BAN all AUTOMOBILES.
And if your not for that, shut up, stop acting like you care at all, and get on with your day.
I can talk on my phone while I drive. I can send off a text like "on my way" or "what should I get for the party" easily as well.
And I dive a 5-speed!
You CANNOT ban all things that can be considered a risk.
And just to get this right, Police should be allowed to operate there radios, emergency lighting, siren, and have a laptop set up shining light in there eyes while they drive fast going to a emergency call???
That's safe.
But me driving down the road talking on a cell phone, that's bad.
You like people telling you what is safe for you to do and what is not safe for you to do. You take comfort in that dont you? Let me guess, you think seat belt laws are the bee's knees too.
It really is sad.
Very Very SAD.
