Cagers Texting

[Lou Girardin]

You could get done for careless, but you'd have to do something in addition to texting. Crossing the centreline, hitting another vehicle, etc.

[Matt Bleck]

Must be catching, SlickD was just telling me he nearly got taken out in the Waioeka Gorge by a cager on his side of the road who was texting.

Come to think of ti how would he have knon the cager was texting.....Ah forget it....

[thealmightytaco]

Fark. I just had a brilliant idea . (well all my ideas are brilliant, just this one is bodaciously so).

LEDs, right. Use 'em for tail-lights and such.

So what if one had an array of LEDS across the back of the bike. Quite legal methinks, is the tail/brake light.

But, a special switch switches some of the LEDS off. So that ones left spell words. *SUITABLE* words! Then all y'need to do is get in front of cage and flick the switch. And if you hooked up a little microprocessor and a wee keypad, the words could be dynamic.

Shit this is brilliant. We've got a bazillion electronic boffins on here, wotz it need to make it a goer ?

Someone in Oz or somewhere did it for a car, goes on the parcel tray in ya back window.

But once you've surgically sponged it into ya tail section on ya bike, what about puttin' a microphone in ya helmet and get one of those programs that converts speaking into words, then that gets scripted across ya LED's.

Can say huge screeds then rather than having to hit a button, or 4, with only select words on 'em. Just gotta sample out the engine or you'll get a consant stream of V's across ya LED.

[Big Dave]

Well thats my whinge for the day

you go - It's mine too.
I've had so many incidents like that - hang up and drive ffs!

[Swoop]

What do you mean it was a female??? They can multi-task effortlessly. It was obviously a male who couldn't drive AND text at the same time.

I presume you knocked on "his" door? with your boot?

[Ixion]

Someone in Oz or somewhere did it for a car, goes on the parcel tray in ya back window.

But once you've surgically sponged it into ya tail section on ya bike, what about puttin' a microphone in ya helmet and get one of those programs that converts speaking into words, then that gets scripted across ya LED's.

Can say huge screeds then rather than having to hit a button, or 4, with only select words on 'em. Just gotta sample out the engine or you'll get a consant stream of V's across ya LED.

Yesssss! Brilliant!!

Voice to text converter. A PDA running Dragon!.

The the whole world will see what we think of the twits!.

[chickenfunkstar]

I've seen a motorcycle courier on a street magic reach into his jacket and pull out his phone, presumably checking his txt's / where his next delivery was or something...