Cell phones and drivers.
You do it. We all do it. (Well. I never do. I hate phones and cell phones especially.)
People HATE drivers using cell phones.
It angers them. It's against the law in many places. And the people still do it. They don't care. They have to yakk yakk yakk, all day long. A few moments with only the thoughts in their brain and perhaps a sweet melody (or death metal dirge) on the radio to lubricate the pendulous mechanisms within.
The horror.

So. This is the old rant. You know you've seen people go completely unglued when they've spied a driver talking on the cell phone. I have. Lots of times.

So. Here's the twist.
Who causes more accidents?
The cell phone yakker? Or the cell phone hater?

I'd find it ironic if statistics show that the cell phone hater is involved in more wrecks. Very funny.

I don't really know what else to say.
A simple idea.
I don't even know what kind of response I might expect.
"Lol's"? Agreements? Disagreements?
What kind of conversation could be started with this strange idea as its seed?

Only time will tell.

One thing that would be interesting is if statistics actually exist for this. And that one of you people with far too much time on your hands and the primo google mastery could find it and post it.
That'd be killer.
Especially if the haters come out on top.

Alright.
That's it.

Let me close with a "FUCK YOU ALL!"

Goodnight.

LaWlerSK8s!!!11!

Lawler skates? Since when? I heard he broke his leg skating as a child (while talking on a cell phone... Although some rumors say he was actually chasing down someone on a cell phone) and has been deathly afraid of skate boards ever since. Bravo, Lawler!

Oh. I bet you mean roller skates.
No biggie then.

I wonder if the ones who talk on cell phones while driving are the same ones who yakked with passengers, turning their heads to look at the passenger.

There should be a law that prohibits any type of cell phone use while driving.

"FUCK YOU ALL!"

so ahh
where's gendy?

Nunya.

I wonder what it is about using a cellphone which impairs the abilites of the driver so much in the first place. Think about it.

It is the fact that they have to steer with one hand with the other on the wheel? Seems unlikely.

But on the other hand, what about cellphone drivers that talk through headsets? Are their abilities so impaired? I suppose you could compare talking on a headset to holding a conversation with your friend sitting to the left.

Or is it because you're talking to someone remotely, which the body hasn't adapted to yet, and therefore is confused at some level, and therefore more attention is required.


One thing that would be interesting is if statistics actually exist for this.
Wouldn't that be nice. :m:

Nunya.

i hate you

please?

I was in a car with this chick, and she was driving on a two lane highway in the fucking middle of Nowhere, Alaska. So we're talking, and she feels compelled to turn around and talk to me while doing like 80. I started screaming when she hit the curve, the cliff wall approaching at 80 mph. We almost died.

Some people.

I wonder what it is about using a cellphone which impairs the abilites of the driver so much in the first place.It disconnects your brain hemispheres.

The citizen's band (CB) radio craze lasted for ten or fifteen years, and it was ENTIRELY a car and truck phenomenon. Nobody used them at all EXCEPT when they were driving. Yet there was no crisis of accidents or crazy driving attributed to the use of CBs.

The difference? The sound on a CB came through a loudspeaker. You heard the sound in both ears, and it became part of the environment. The sound on a cellphone comes through a handset or headset, a single speaker that covers one ear and comes pretty close to blocking out the environment on that side.

When someone is talking about a meeting or a date over a loudspeaker and the sound of a siren or screeching tires abruptly interrupts, your binaural hearing instantly locates the source as coming from outside the car and your normal instincts tell you that is more important than the voice on the speaker, without having to think about it.

When someone is talking about a meeting or a date and that sound is only coming in one ear and it's the ONLY aural stimulus coming into that ear, that entire hemisphere of your brain disjoins and focuses on it. When the siren or screech comes in on the other side, the other hemisphere takes it, and then the two hemispheres have to decide to cooperate and coordinate to determine which is more important. This is not a natural function for most people and it does not happen instantly. When your car can cover nine feet in a tenth of a second, that slight time lag can be the difference between safety and disaster.

The way to remove the danger from cellphone usage on the highway is to take away the handset/headset and require them to use microphones and loudspeakers like CB radios. People would grumble but most of them would comply, especially with technology that wasn't available in the CB era. Very few people will comply with an outright ban, and I don't think it's even necessary.

Now if you want to talk about banning cellphone use on PUBLIC transportation, I'm with you there! For some weird reason cellphones always make people talk ten times louder than a normal conversation--but ONLY when other people are around to be bothered by it!