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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / November 2007Teenage Drivers are In-Text-Icated
WGN TV ran a report this evening about teenaged drivers who read and send text messages while driving. One 17-year-old idiot even demonstrated how he texts while driving for the cameras. His car, a mid-90s Thunderbird, shows significant unrepaired front-end damage. Gee, I wonder how that happened? According to the story, 6000 teens a year die in car crashes, and most of those are due not to alcohol, but to distracted driving.  Signature"Carl sleeps in his own bed [with] his yappy stupid a.s dog I want to punt out the balcony and into the dumpster." - Erika Lozaga Message-ID: <1194318485.287974.126750@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com> "I respect [Erika's] opinion though--not yours!" - Carl Rogers Message-ID: <1194332588.257951.197540@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com> > WGN TV ran a report this evening about teenaged drivers who read and > send text messages while driving. One 17-year-old idiot even [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > - Carl Rogers > Message-ID: <1194332588.257951.197540@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com> That's probably the worst distraction to driving, or probably a close second to operating a laptop while driving. Both are much worse than cell phones. Tied for next-worst, well below cell phones, would have to be men shaving and women applying makeup. Next, also behind phones...DVD players. Then...dashboard navigation (I study the map prior to the drive). If cell phones are so bad (I can operate one and still have my eyes focused on the road), then you might as well ban passengers and make it mandatory to trade cars for motorcycles. I've seen far too many drivers turn to face a passenger in a conversation. Brent and Nate might agree on this one: the speedometer is a huge distraction (if you look at the speedometer, you are not looking at the road), especially in the presence of LEOs. Hint: set the cruise at the posted speed limit, expect no problems. Aunt Judy stretches it with the claim of radios being distracting. Two words arguing best against it: highway hypnosis. How about another distraction: the radar detector! It beeps, you fill your shorts, and just gave the LEO more reason to interrupt your cruise. Perhaps the driving is best left to folks between 25 and 58. Naahhh...that age range has its fair share of Scheiskopf types as well as outside that range. Scratch that. :) Then...there is...coffee...manual tranny...sneezing/ coughing...dashboard camera operation :) ...other drivers...road signs...we could continue the list forever, and ban so much stuff as to making driving a miserable experience worse than standard rush-hour traffic in a construction zone. Perhaps we in America should suck it up and accept the fact that driving is not for the squeamish. "It does not look well for a general to receive the fire behind." -- George Washington > If cell phones are so bad (I can operate one and still have my eyes > focused on the road), then you might as well ban passengers and make > it mandatory to trade cars for motorcycles. I've seen far too many > drivers turn to face a passenger in a conversation. Years ago this woman I worked with was helping me buy a tropical fish tank. I dragged her along because she knew about the stuff. She was driving and brought her two brats as well. It was the most scared shitless I've ever been while riding with someone. This chick would turn AROUND to talk to her brats for 5 or 6 seconds at a time. She might as well have had her eyes closed. Twice we had hard stops because she wasn't paying attention. This was in a 10 mile round trip. >> If cell phones are so bad (I can operate one and still have my eyes >> focused on the road), then you might as well ban passengers and make [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >because she wasn't paying attention. This was in a 10 mile round >trip. Sounds like she was looking for Mr. Darwin. -- Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. - Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy >WGN TV ran a report this evening about teenaged drivers who read and >send text messages while driving. One 17-year-old idiot even [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >According to the story, 6000 teens a year die in car crashes, and most >of those are due not to alcohol, but to distracted driving. Wait a minute! We'll just lower the speed limits, and increase penalties for violating those limits. That'll solve the problem! Sorry, lost my head for a moment. -- Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. - Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy On Nov 14, 6:54 am, "Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)" <drunk_and_distracted@the_wheel.com> wrote: > >WGN TV ran a report this evening about teenaged drivers who read and > >send text messages while driving. One 17-year-old idiot even [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. > - Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy Had an Aunt Judy moment, didn't you? Prescribed treatment is 12 ounces of medication-in-a-can. :-) >On Nov 14, 6:54 am, "Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver >(Hector Goldstein)" <drunk_and_distracted@the_wheel.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >Had an Aunt Judy moment, didn't you? Prescribed treatment is 12 >ounces of medication-in-a-can. :-) Administered through a funnel and a tube. Glug glug glug! Think I'm going to ride to the store for a refill. :-) -- Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. - Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy Scott in SoCal: > According to the story, 6000 teens a year die in car crashes, I prefer to think of it as Darwin in action. And it is a most beautiful thing. :) Signature-- "You jump in front of my car when you, you know all the time that Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a little pain You say you just want me to take you for a ride " --Jimi Hendrix > WGN TV ran a report this evening about teenaged drivers who read and > send text messages while driving. One 17-year-old idiot even [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > According to the story, 6000 teens a year die in car crashes, and most > of those are due not to alcohol, but to distracted driving. Can MATWD be far off? Maybe we can establish a texting limit. How about road blocks to detect texting. Should the presence of a "live" cellphone in the passenger compartment be prima fascia evidence of illegal texting?I suppose we can seize cars being operated by texters. Ed >I suppose >we can seize cars being operated by texters. Unfortunately, I believe that would be the only way you would be able to make a dent in the problem, and I don't believe it would be a severe one. We'll have to kick back and watch Mr. Darwin work his miracles on this one. -- Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. - Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy |
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