Cellphones

[jim.cox]

Saw a good one on the way to work today.

Black Porsche

She (the passenger) is putting on eye liner

And he's driving one handed with the batphone held to his ear

FugWitz...

[CookMySock]

Nor is eating a pie safe

Only problem I have ever had with a pie, is when I see some funny shit and the pie comes out my nose. Ya gotta watch that.

Steve

[mister.koz]

I reckon (speculation with no real foundation) that the handsfree caveat was put in because allot of people use cellphones while driving for their work (couriers, taxi's, cops etc). Its a bit like the "not allowed to pertrude sharp objects" rule with cars, then you see one of those glassies with 10s of square metres of plate glass out in the open.

There's lots of "counter arguments" to not using cellphones and all of them lack simple common sense. Super human or not cellphones are a serious distraction....

The best seatbelt argument i heard was: "i should be able to drive without a seat belt because my cousin's step-grandad knew this guy who's neibour's brother's step son was thrown from his car when he went down a cliff and he survived, all because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt"

Regardless of how able someone is to drive with distractions how does a cop identify this? they can't so thats why they create simple rules like this one.

I don't drive while talking on the phone because i know that i can't focus on the road and i am not about to have faith in the common Neanderthal in the car next to me who is talking on the phone. 1/2 of the people i see on the road can concentrate on driving AND breathing, let alone with a cell phone thrown into the mix....

[Big Dave]

If you thinks hands free is no safer - you mustn't ride where I ride.
Morons too busy holding a phone to their ear to use an indicator FFS.

[PrincessBandit]

It's ridiculous, and tantamount to some "I am a god" elitism bullshit.

Steve

But I am a goddess (as well as a princess)!

If you thinks hands free is no safer - you mustn't ride where I ride.
Morons too busy holding a phone to their ear to use an indicator FFS.

Don't know about you Big Dave, but I see morons all the time who don't use their indicators and they don't even have a phone up to their ear. Wonder what their excuse is if it isn't the big bad mobile.

[Big Dave]

But I am a goddess (as well as a princess)!



Don't know about you Big Dave, but I see morons all the time who don't use their indicators and they don't even have a phone up to their ear. Wonder what their excuse is if it isn't the big bad mobile.

Yer kiddin'. I had some dick pull out on me yesterday - black z car - away with the pixies yappin' on a mobile - and eating. He was steering partly with his elbow. The only way he could have operated an indicator was with his nose. I'm talking about him - and dozens more like him.

[Usarka]

If you thinks hands free is no safer - you mustn't ride where I ride.
Morons too busy holding a phone to their ear to use an indicator FFS.

I'd suggest if you take the phone away they'd still be morons!

[Big Dave]

I'd suggest if you take the phone away they'd still be morons!

With one less distraction and an extra limb. Hold phone - breathe - hold phone - breathe.

I lived in Sydney with about 4 million people when this law was introduced. It made motorcycling noticeably less stressful. I can spank on for 500 words as to why but *you* mr biscuits can just take my word for it that the difference was palpable. You'll see :-0

[jaymzw]

I think we should look at the bigger problem here.

Talking whilst riding.

Try that!

[Trouser]

The only time I have crashed was when perving at a girl in a short skirt. True story.

[Big Dave]

The only time I have crashed was when perving at a girl in a short skirt. True story.

Respec

[dpex]

As if the other umpteen pages of ranting on this issue is not enough! here we go again

It this SIMPLE dude-

Its another HAND you should have for driving being used- half your BRAIN is now tasked to holding the device to your godamned EAR-
And your reactions are more tuned to the phone- (primary thought track) - and your brain places DRIVING into the second current activity plane of reason- BAD FUCKIN MOVE!

Your also thinking of the incoming conversation and the replies- another 25% of your COGNITIVE mind (the one OPERATING that guided missile your driving in)
Say you have answered a call- congrats- you now have less than 25% of your cognitive consious mind tasked on the road and vehicle control-

Its a no brainer- CELLPHONES distract the drivers- and DANGEROUSLY so

Why is it that so many otherwise sensible intellegent people are so upset that hand held cellphones are being banned in cars- its only the DRIVER thats affected and rightly so-

Wanna use ya cellphone while on the move take the bus- stay off my roads

Now- I hope you 'understand' like any resonable person who can get past thier own 'im so awesome at multitasking it cant affect me' attitude

Driving is a privellege NOT a god given right- and NZ is over 15 YEARS behind the rest of the developed world in banning hand helds

Within what appears to be a drunken rant, exists a few nuggets of truth.

But I say again. I don't understand why a cell-call distracts me to the level I know it does. I just know it does. So I don't do cell-calls.

But hey, my response could be an age thing, or all manner of other thing which doesn't affect others. Except when, especially when old Zimmer, I hove alongside some goon or gooness with a cell clamped to their ear, I just know they have zoned out from the current reality. I can see it. They're rabbiting on and what's actually around them is only just in their peripheral conscious.

I say, ban all cell use, seriously singe all in-car cell users with flame, and burn all catholic cell-users.

Nar. When I think about it, just burn all catholics. That should result in at least a 10% reduction in cell-use on the roads given catholics are always on the phone to someone.

Better yet, burning all catholics would increase the world glut on wine, so the price will fall, the cost of cell-calls would rise (restricting use) and the Ayatolla might pay the burners.

Works for me.

[FJRider]

Read again what you have typed.

The whole reason a distraction IS a distraction, is it stops you from realising other things. You don't get both.

Its akin to trying to watch your favourite tv program, and chatting to your nearest and dearest on the phone at the same time. At times you miss seconds of each ... seconds, you later wish you didn't miss ...

Driving ... you cant just hit a record button....

[monkeymcbean]

Saw a good one on the way to work today.

Black Porsche

She (the passenger) is putting on eye liner

And he's driving one handed with the batphone held to his ear

FugWitz...

Yes, if im in the cage, and notice this happening behind me a long touch of the brakes usually interrupts this behaviour, i try to play fair most of the time though!

[Mikkel]

Hands free is no safer than hand held

They will argue that until the cows come home...

However, it's pretty fucking hard to text when the phone is mounted in a handsfree mount. (Not that I doubt there will be some fuckwits who'll need to try it out though.)

Also, I dare assume that only few people who doesn't use a cellphone while driving as part of their job will flush out on a proper handsfree setup. I am also pretty certain that if you talk on your phone, while driving, as part of your daily routine you will become better at it than the person who is bored during the commute and wants to plan friday night out on town...

If you ban handsfree communication in motorvehicles you might as well ban taxis, buses, trucks, ambulances, policecars, firetrucks, etc...