The research has been done to prove that talking on a cell phone while driving is comparable to driving drunk. You have tunnel vision, because your engaging in a conversation and not giving your full attention to driving safely. I just dont get how or why people think they have the right to endanger everyone around them. I've even resorted to yelling at drivers who are clearly not paying attention, "Hey, Idiot! You're driving a CAR, not a PHONE BOOTH"
2007-02-02 15:46:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Here's an idea. When I see someone on the phone when they should be paying attention to driving, I simply hold the horn button when near them. They usually get the hint but you can't talk sense into a stupid person. I say first offense, $500 fine, second offense, 30 day suspension of lisence. Third revoking of lisence permanantly.
2007-02-02 21:12:36 · answer #1 · answered by wzzrd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you drive at all, you will witness people who are yakking and quacking on a cellphone and driving as though they are the only ones on the road.
The problem comes when the person is so emotionally wrapped up in the conversation they lose all sensibility to their surroundings. And until some kind of vigorous enforcement is implemented to stop this insane compulsion, we all are at risk every time we go on the road.
People call me all the time when I am on the road and I just refuse to answer it. If it is important, I will call them when I get stopped, but I don't even check to see who it is until I get stopped anyway.
There is no possible scenario I can think of that would compel me to talk on the cell when I am in traffic and traveling at freeeway speeds.
That is insane, but, there are those reckless individuals that have the delusion they are the most important people on the face of the earth. And they are the ones that put us all at risk.
So scary!!
2007-02-03 17:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by Gnome 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Excellent Comeback! In NYS. people squawking away in cell phones are supposed to wear a "hands off" earpiece and talk into the little mike. Everyone still breaks the rules. I followed a county sheriff recently and his skull was bouncing around like a Dollar General Bobble Freaking Head! Nice example. While sitting at a stop sign on my road recently. I noticed cumming down a road 90 degrees from me. She drove straight through her stop sign and turned short straight at me. I blew my horn and the the sound made her continue into an elementary lawn to my left. She was so wrapped up in her little piece of sh _t phoney phone she had No Clue what she'd just done.
2007-02-02 16:11:10 · answer #3 · answered by Country Boy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do. I saw a wreck at a four way stop sign. Three vehicles approached the stop signs ( including my own ) and I came to a stop since I was the first to our respective signs. One SUV approaching from my left and another SUV approaching me headlong across the intersection. Both drivers were women and I observed both using the telephone. Niether driver apparently saw the stop signs or applied any brakes and they crashed directly in front of me. I got out to see if they were ok and they asked me, pretty much in unison, to describe what I had seen. I told them I would when the authorities arrived. When the officers asked me for my statement I told them " I saw two women talking on the phone and not paying a bit of attention to their surroundings and they collided squarely in the middle of the intersection. Yes I do, I certainly agree. This was in Mountain Brook, Alabama.
2007-02-02 16:09:43 · answer #4 · answered by acesfourpal 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i do ,because i have been ran off the road a few times ,and it was over this very thing,i wish they would officially make it a law that you cant talk and drive with a cell phone in your hand,its a law that you cant drink and drive with a beer in your hand,and to some people a cell phone is as bad as a beer could be,but it kind of gets me going a little when i see them driving and looking off the road i wonder who their going to wind up hitting,but we all have opinions on this matter,but im all for a law against talking on them unless you have a hands free set up,good luck i hope this help,s.
2007-02-02 16:32:38 · answer #5 · answered by dodge man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. California recently passed a mandatory hands-free law and you MUST use hands-free on all military bases or you'll lose your base driving privileges. I think these are steps in the right direction. Too many near-misses happen because people can't seem to do two things at once!
2007-02-02 15:54:45 · answer #6 · answered by Brutally Honest 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I definitely do. Watch the same people try to push a cart around a grocery store while on the phone. It's ridiculous, and becomes incredibly dangerous while driving a car.
2007-02-02 15:50:35 · answer #7 · answered by lucky g 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-02 04:37:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't just think that, I know it for a fact.
2007-02-02 17:37:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
absolutely
2007-02-02 18:26:49 · answer #10 · answered by bundysmom 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋