Comments on: Driving While Cell-Phone Impaired http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9219 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:19:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9219/comment-page-1#comment-55987 Reader's Write Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:01:33 +0000 #comment-55987 Perhaps they also could do a study about talking to other people in the car as a distraction. How about listing to a conversation on the radio? Any distraction while driving will give these results not just cell phone use. Rule #1 If you are paying more attention to the distraction than driving, STOP DOING IT!!! I myself would drop my phone and piss off the person on the other end if I needed to pay more attention to my driving. P.S. My Wife doesn't like to talk to me on the phone while I am driving as I don't pay enough attention to what she is saying. Perhaps they also could do a study about talking to other people in the car as a distraction. How about listing to a conversation on the radio?

Any distraction while driving will give these results not just cell phone use.

Rule #1 If you are paying more attention to the distraction than driving,
STOP DOING IT!!!

I myself would drop my phone and piss off the person on the other end if I needed to pay more attention to my driving.

P.S. My Wife doesn’t like to talk to me on the phone while I am driving as I don’t pay enough attention to what she is saying.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9219/comment-page-1#comment-55574 Reader's Write Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:26:49 +0000 #comment-55574 This really needs to be ranked with drunk driving. Prehaps I am biased on this one. I've been the victim of a rearend collision while stopped at a red light waiting for it to change green. Apparently the driver did not see me or the other 5 cars waiting. There was nothing in the way and plenty of oppurtunity to stop before finding my bumper. Nor was this a highway, interstate, or highspeed road. It was the local main drag, a place of 35 mph speed limit. Thank heavens this wasn't a highspeed roadway. It's a trip at times to try and pass someone talking on the phone. You don't know whether to slow down, because they will slow down also, whether to speed up as they will do that too, or whether you have enough room on a 4 lane to get around them while they are all over the road. Personally, I hate the things and won't have one. I won't be worried about whether my hands are free for driving or if my skills are impaired from what seems to be long term distraction. I really wished others felt that way too. This really needs to be ranked with drunk driving. Prehaps I am biased on this one. I’ve been the victim of a rearend collision while stopped at a red light waiting for it to change green. Apparently the driver did not see me or the other 5 cars waiting. There was nothing in the way and plenty of oppurtunity to stop before finding my bumper. Nor was this a highway, interstate, or highspeed road. It was the local main drag, a place of 35 mph speed limit. Thank heavens this wasn’t a highspeed roadway.

It’s a trip at times to try and pass someone talking on the phone. You don’t know whether to slow down, because they will slow down also, whether to speed up as they will do that too, or whether you have enough room on a 4 lane to get around them while they are all over the road.

Personally, I hate the things and won’t have one. I won’t be worried about whether my hands are free for driving or if my skills are impaired from what seems to be long term distraction. I really wished others felt that way too.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9219/comment-page-1#comment-55456 Reader's Write Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:15:53 +0000 #comment-55456 It is also illegal in the UK, but it doesn't seem to stop people It is also illegal in the UK, but it doesn’t seem to stop people

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9219/comment-page-1#comment-55231 Reader's Write Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:26:47 +0000 #comment-55231 should be illegal here too and oldie drivers should be banned should be illegal here too and oldie drivers should be banned

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9219/comment-page-1#comment-55217 Reader's Write Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:46:10 +0000 #comment-55217 Talking on the phone while driving has been illegal in Finland for some time already. Talking on the phone while driving has been illegal in Finland for some time already.

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