Get off your bloody phone

[tigertim20]

I know most of us have had run ins or close calls with assholes on their phones while they drive.

well SADD (Students Against Dangerous Driving) Are doing 'Phone Free 48', a fundraiser to raise awareness of the dangers of texting while driving,

Basically, encouraging people to go 48 hours without their phones (think 48 hour famine, but without your favourite device)

All money raised will go towards the SADD charity continuing to deliver road safety programs to teens in schools. You can encourage your kids / friends to take part, or you can sponsor some of the people doing it.

Link to 'Phone Free 48' http://phonefree48.org.nz/

heres a link to the donation pages for some of those taking part if you want to donate:

https://phonefree48challenge.everyda...-phone-free-48

https://phonefree48challenge.everyda...oes-phone-free

https://phonefree48challenge.everyda...ree-for-safety

https://phonefree48challenge.everyda...aitlyn-jenkins

https://phonefree48challenge.everyda...ets-gooooooooo

Maybe we can encourage a few idiots to put their phones down, even if just for a couple days

[GazzaH]

I still like the idea of persuading the people they are talking to, to say "Hey, are you driving? Call me later, idiot!"

[Voltaire]

I think its too late, we are addicted to them, walking across roads, cycling with earphones, on the train ( me included).

I live on a busy road and the other day I did a 5 minute survey looking down on the passing cars doing stop start up the street.

One in three were playing with their phones.

When I scoot into the city I see a lot of it too in slow moving traffic, tinted windows are good if you do it a lot.

Solution..... jammers fitted to cars.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a7483871.html

[GazzaH]

Phones with GPS could be excluded from the networks when moving along known highways.

Phones without GPS could be flagged when moving between cell sites at anything above walking, jogging or cycling pace.

People using their phones while crossing roads are Darwin award candidates and should be encouraged.

[AllanB]

I'm sure there is very cheap simple devices that could be fitted to vehicles to create a car dead spot while you drive.

[GazzaH]

Technically possible, yes.

https://youtu.be/pZnzp4ip5lI

Oh by the way, it's terminal. Also fries your bike's electronics, your own cellphone, ABS controllers and robot drivers.

A similar device can also be flown through cities ...

https://www.boeing.com/features/2012...-10-22-12.page

Not cheap though.

[MarkH]

Solution..... jammers fitted to cars.

I have bluetooth pairing fitted to mine. If the phone rings, I can press a button on my steering wheel and then talk to someone while driving normally.

On the motorbike I go with "fuck 'em, I'll worry about it when I stop (or not)".

At work - mostly my phone stays in my pocket, I don't need to spend several hours every day looking at it.

I think that people reading and replying to texts while driving are the worst, why can't those cunts just check their texts later?

[Scubbo]

having to keep up with a conversation and whats happening is hard, not everyone is a longbow pilot.... best to leave it all off and focus on the ride

[neels]

I like the idea, but would much prefer if it was 48 hours starting 8am Monday morning, would be a great excuse for some peace and quiet for a change. I can quite happily leave my phone sitting somewhere in the house and forget about it in the weekend, so in that respect I'm probably not the target audience.

Have bluetooth in the car now so can answer or not as I see fit, after I turned off the auto answer on the stereo, almost very embarrassing but thankfully they talked first.....On the bike the phone gets put away, and I look at it when I can be bothered, which at times can be once the bike is safely parked back in the garage again.

I really don't understand what's so important that you need to be texting while driving, but I guess my life isn't particularly interesting so that might be why I don't get it.

[Oakie]

Seen many things being done by drivers in my time ... all the normal silly stuff ... but yesterday for the first time EVER ... I saw a woman brushing her teeth while driving!

[AllanB]

Some cunty cunt dressed as a gay on a pushbike almost collected me today as he cycled and txt.

[R650R]

Remember back in the day when before phones you still got cut off just as much by people not paying attention.... it’s nothing new....

[Voltaire]

Remember back in the day when before phones you still got cut off just as much by people not paying attention.... it’s nothing new....

Yeah, but horses were a bit like a self drive car

[rastuscat]

Remember back in the day when before phones you still got cut off just as much by people not paying attention.... it’s nothing new....

Amen.

Not that I agree with phone use while driving.

1973 was our worst ever road toll. 843. No phones back then.

[Owl]

I think its too late, we are addicted to them

You're right, but not all of us. My entire mobile phone bill last year was $2.73, though of course that left me with $17.27 unused and needing a top-up.

Amazes me at work though during smoko when everyone has their face buried in a screen for 20 minutes. Once upon a time we actually used to talk.