Volvo drivers heart operation.

[Slingshot]

The other day a similar incident happened to me. A car changed lanes into my spot, as I was taking evassive action around him I put my gloved hand out and tapped his wing mirror (bending it back).

My plan was for him to think he had actually clipped me but looking back he probably thinks I was splitting and being a dick and just got too close.

[Beemer]

I like it! My husband has air horns on his bike and I've seen people almost run off the road in fright when he uses them when they pull out in front of him!

Not on the bike, but my mother hates driving with me if a pedestrian walks out in front of me - I open the window and yell "have you got a deathwish you stupid prick?" She never knows where to look!

On the bike I am usually almost speechless at people's stupidity so tend to make the tosser sign or just shake my head. I'd love to be confident enough to ride up to their window and tap on it. Not hard enough to break it though, oh no, that would be naughty...

[Oscar]

I did a similar thing, except when the car was still moving.
Having been carved up by a primer painted RX2 at the lights, I followed him down Galloway Street in Ham East. At the lights it had appeared that the Mazda was being driven by a beanie and two sets of knuckles, but as I caught up I see it was driven by a spotty little oik with his oikfriend in the passenger seat.

I pulled up alongside them at about 60km/h and his window being open (and me having a open faced lid on), I suavely enquired "What the f#@& do you think you are f#@&ing doing you f#@&ing spotty c*%$....?"

It would appear that when you cut yer drivers seat down, mirrors become useless, so the appearance of a large hairy angry man leaning in his window surprised him somewhat. His reposte was along the lines of "...(gurly scream)..Eek! oogle urgle!!..."

Having then paused to promise him what would happen if I saw him again (which involved his beanie being inserted into his fundemental orifice), I bid him a final farewell....

[vifferman]

Ohh I missed the odvious to avoid confusing the story He was yakkiin away on his cellphone -of course

Interesting article in The Harold this morning:

Brains can't cope with cellphones while driving

29.06.05

Using a cellphone - even with a hands-free device - may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, say US researchers. Imaging tests show the brain directs its resources to either visual input or auditory input, but cannot fully activate both at the same time, the team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found. "Our research helps explain why talking on a cellphone can impair driving performance, even when the driver is using a hands-free device," said Steven Yantis, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences who led the study. "Directing attention to listening effectively 'turns down the volume' on input to the visual parts of the brain," he added in a statement. "When attention is deployed to one modality - say, in this case, talking on a cellphone - it necessarily extracts a cost on another modality - in this case, the visual task of driving." Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience, Yantis and colleagues said they tested people aged 19 to 35 by showing them a computer display while they wore headphones playing voices. At the same time, the volunteers' brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging. They were told to look for specific numbers, for instance, on a computer screen, while hearing recorded voices saying a stream of numbers. When the volunteers paid attention to visual tasks, the auditory parts of their brain recorded decreased activity, and vice-versa. "It's as if the participants were changing the volume on visual input and auditory input depending on where they were supposed to be directing attention," Yantis said. This is like driving and trying to talk on a cellphone. "You are sharing attention between vision and audition and doing the best you can," Yantis said. - REUTERS

[Wolf]

Interesting article in The Harold this morning:

Brains can't cope with cellphones while driving

29.06.05

Using a cellphone - even with a hands-free device - may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, say US researchers. --Snip-- - REUTERS

So who's going to ram a copy of the Herald up a few politicians' fundamental orifices until they get the message?

[sels1]

So who's going to ram a copy of the Herald up a few politicians' fundamental orifices until they get the message?

ummm.....a fundamentalist?

[Wolf]

ummm.....a fundamentalist?

Hope you're not accusing me of being a fundamentalist

[Lou Girardin]

Around Auckland, a lot of drivers brains can't cope with driving.

Now I know why fundamentalist christians/muslims are called that.

[ManDownUnder]

Around Auckland, a lot of drivers brains can't cope with driving.

hmmm - it seems to me it's the other way around - they "cope" with the driving without their brains...

This morning was a classic for it... the number of idiots doing dumb thing (juist turn... hmmm... HERE! - oopsie... nearly hit someone... aaa no matter"

EEEEJUTS!

[ManDownUnder]

Interesting article in The Harold this morning:

Brains can't cope with cellphones while driving

29.06.05

Using a cellphone - even with a hands-free device - may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, say US researchers. Imaging tests show the brain directs its resources to either visual input or auditory input, but cannot fully activate both at the same time, the team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found. "Our research helps explain why talking on a cellphone can impair driving performance, even when the driver is using a hands-free device," said Steven Yantis, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences who led the study. "Directing attention to listening effectively 'turns down the volume' on input to the visual parts of the brain," he added in a statement. "When attention is deployed to one modality - say, in this case, talking on a cellphone - it necessarily extracts a cost on another modality - in this case, the visual task of driving." Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience, Yantis and colleagues said they tested people aged 19 to 35 by showing them a computer display while they wore headphones playing voices. At the same time, the volunteers' brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging. They were told to look for specific numbers, for instance, on a computer screen, while hearing recorded voices saying a stream of numbers. When the volunteers paid attention to visual tasks, the auditory parts of their brain recorded decreased activity, and vice-versa. "It's as if the participants were changing the volume on visual input and auditory input depending on where they were supposed to be directing attention," Yantis said. This is like driving and trying to talk on a cellphone. "You are sharing attention between vision and audition and doing the best you can," Yantis said. - REUTERS

No surprises there then...

I remember seeing something on TV illustrating the difference between taling on a cell phone (DISTRACTING and dangerous) and talking to a passenger... compare what happens in the two modes of conversation in an emergency.

Passenger, sees body language of driver change and shares sense of urgency re the situation and SHUTS UP

Cell phone... blah blah blah blah BANG

MDU

[Wolf]

Passenger, sees body language of driver change and shares sense of urgency re the situation and SHUTS UP

Never been in a car with my father's mother, have you, MDU

[FROSTY:Me]

Guys n gals Just a point here. Yea It was bloody funny but if you're thinking of doing summat similar just keep in mind.
I was on a motorway so only One way traffic to worry about.
There were NO cars to my right or behind me to cut off my escape route.
I was covering my front brake and had shifted down a gear so I could get outa there fast if I needed to.
I'd hate to seee one of you llot come a cropper

[myvice]

No, yorv got it all wrong, cell phones are safe, just like haveing a t.v. in your car (now NOT a WoF fail) But those dangeros exaust noise levels... Well thats another story!