Driving and texting

[mcatdtDroid]

Guess I'll just go back to watching movies on my phone

 

[haythem1992]

Mcat my dad does that every morning with his slingplayer app on his way to work. To make matters worse he fastforwards through commercials, add that to constantly emailing and getting mad when you tell him not to, it is pretty scary hopefully he doesn't learn the hard way.

 

[Mateles]

I live in Illinois and just had a young girl rear end me going 40+mph beacuse she was texting. No serious injuries but she totaled her car and did less than $300 damage to mine. The injuries could have been much worse. It's nice to have laws about texting & driving, but the police have to enforce them.

Didn't you read the posts before yours? It's fine that she was texting / using her phone. The problem is that she was distracted. We just need to teach people how hit buttons on / look at their cell phone with their hands off the wheel without being distracted by it.

 

[mcatdtDroid]

I live in Illinois and just had a young girl rear end me going 40+mph beacuse she was texting. No serious injuries but she totaled her car and did less than $300 damage to mine. The injuries could have been much worse. It's nice to have laws about texting & driving, but the police have to enforce them.

Didn't you read the posts before yours? It's fine that she was texting / using her phone. The problem is that she was distracted. We just need to teach people how hit buttons on / look at their cell phone with their hands off the wheel without being distracted by it.

yet noone posts stories about messing with a radio and getting distracted....

 

[blumpkinblake]

Swype makes texting while driving a lot easier.

 

[ricks]

Messing with the radio is totally different than texting. With the radio you press one button and listen. With texting you are pressing many buttons and thinking what you are trying to say. You people who think its alright to use your phone while driving are just too stupid to be behind the wheel.

 

[mcatdtDroid]

I've heard of people changing CD's run off the road, over correct, and roll their car into oncoming traffic....

ban CDs in cars

 

[jasonppp]

I've heard of people changing CD's run off the road, over correct, and roll their car into oncoming traffic....

ban CDs in cars

i have heard of people getting out of bed falling to their death maybe we shouldn't get out of bed.

are you kidding with this post this is the year 2010 most people got xm sirius or an ipod that hooks straight upto sterio....ban the cd's wont hurt my feelings

like posted above your post when texting you pay alot more attention to the phone then the road.


50% of the world gets behind the wheel with emotional distress so they already only put a slight percentage of attention on the road. add in texting that is a recipe for distruction.....

we all have done it at some point and time but bein responsible adults we need to stop

 

[Quicksilver7714]

LOL at Michigan...they just passed this law and Cali has had it for how long now?

Don't hate on my state. Its a good thing we finally passed a texting ban. So what if Cali. has had one for a while. We are not comparing states.
I live on a main street by my former high school, and have been almost rear-ended several times by teens driving home texting and not paying attention to tha fact that my blinker and break lights are on. I don't text and drive but i tried once or twice( just simple stuff ex. whats up?, call me) i just cant do it. ITS TOO DISTRACTING and STUPID. I read that 4 out of every 6 seconds spent texting while driving is looking at your phone and not the road. :sad:
Anyway Just glad that there's a Texting Ban Now In Effect In MIchigan. Hope the police don't pull me over for using my navigation in my Droid though.

 

[MrC1122]

I think texting while driving should be banned across the nation. Texting while driving is just plain stupid! I don't care who you are or how you try to rationalize it..."stupid is as stupid does". Those who choose to text while driving put everyone's life at risk, and IMO, is as bad or worse than driving under the influence. However, I don't think that phones should be banned altogether while driving as some have suggested or implied. How many lives have been saved because someone had a phone and called 911 to report an accident or crime while driving?

I believe that enforcement is the key, but not by having a cop pull you over for texting. That's just a temporary fix to a permanent problem. If a cop sees you texting (while he/she is driving) is that not a distraction as well? Did he/she not take their eyes off of the road in order to see you? (one problem causes another)

With the technology currently available, this can be solved. Cell phone and automotive manufacturers have to step up to the plate. They just have to implement proximity and pressure sensors. When you get in the drivers seat and start the engine, pressure sensors in the seat activate proximity sensors in the steering wheel, instantly killing all texting functions for any cellular device within 3 feet or so of the steering wheels' proximity, very similar to that of radar jammers and scramblers...problem solved!

Yea, I know...wishful thinking!

 

[peterpressure]

yet noone posts stories about messing with a radio and getting distracted....

Actually: "In early 1930 the Massachusetts registrar of motor vehicles proposed a regulation to prohibit drivers from playing radios while a car was in motion. (The city of St. Louis introduced similar legislation.) It all came to a head on February 26, 1930, when the Massachusetts Public Works Commission held a hearing on the question. Opponents of car radios argued that they distracted drivers and caused accidents, that tuning them took a driver’s attention away from the road, that music could lull a driver to sleep, and that with open cars still common, radios distracted the drivers of other vehicles too." AmericanHeritage.com / RADIO HITS THE ROAD

Texting is just the latest prohibition that the mob rule supports.

 

[peterpressure]

With the technology currently available, this can be solved. Cell phone and automotive manufacturers have to step up to the plate. They just have to implement proximity and pressure sensors. When you get in the drivers seat and start the engine, pressure sensors in the seat activate proximity sensors in the steering wheel, instantly killing all texting functions for any cellular device within 3 feet or so of the steering wheels' proximity, very similar to that of radar jammers and scramblers...problem solved!

I would refuse to buy any such car that has this crazy feature. What next, Mandatory Blood Alcohol Meters on all ingitions. Why don't we just let people make their own decisions? Who pays for the repair of such a system when it breaks or has been tampered with? Who inspects the system? Do motorcycles and big rigs need to have it also installed?

 

[KevinJ]

Don't hate on my state.

Can I? Please? I live in Michigan too (but don't admit it much).

 

[PikaCane]

I'd love to see a 'driving mode' on my phone, leaving the ability to send and recieve calls intact while disabling texting etc. Of course, I'm biased, I have to be in phone range at work on the off chance I get a call or have an emergency. Still, if they can manage the airplane mode that disables all wireless, and the music-only that leaves Bluetooth on but turns off communications...

 

[jasonppp]

I think texting while driving should be banned across the nation. Texting while driving is just plain stupid! I don't care who you are or how you try to rationalize it..."stupid is as stupid does". Those who choose to text while driving put everyone's life at risk, and IMO, is as bad or worse than driving under the influence. However, I don't think that phones should be banned altogether while driving as some have suggested or implied. How many lives have been saved because someone had a phone and called 911 to report an accident or crime while driving?

I believe that enforcement is the key, but not by having a cop pull you over for texting. That's just a temporary fix to a permanent problem. If a cop sees you texting (while he/she is driving) is that not a distraction as well? Did he/she not take their eyes off of the road in order to see you? (one problem causes another)

With the technology currently available, this can be solved. Cell phone and automotive manufacturers have to step up to the plate. They just have to implement proximity and pressure sensors. When you get in the drivers seat and start the engine, pressure sensors in the seat activate proximity sensors in the steering wheel, instantly killing all texting functions for any cellular device within 3 feet or so of the steering wheels' proximity, very similar to that of radar jammers and scramblers...problem solved!

Yea, I know...wishful thinking!

that would honestly be awesome you should try to get a patent
only problem is noone would go get a "NEW" car lol be alot of outdated unsafe vehicles on the road alot more then already