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Cell phones and driving... your thoughts???
Poll: Cell phones & driving, yay or nay? Yay 21% [ 8 ] Nay 63% [ 24 ] F**k you 15% [ 6 ] Total Votes : 38
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Cell phones and driving... your thoughts??? on Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:10 pm
CryoDude Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 180	Cell phones & driving... thoughts? I say nay... mostly because it's illegal and I can't have another run-in with the law right now
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:48 am
Roy Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 416	There is good reason for this being illegal. Each person has an attentional capacity, meaning that they can only do so many tasks at the same time while putting forth an appropriate amount of concentration toward each task. We, of course, have the capacity to do both. However, using language (talking on the phone) usually takes up more concentration than driving does, since language is processed at a much deeper level. Driving, on the other hand, becomes an automatic process after a few years of practice. Therefore, most of your attention will be put toward talking rather than driving. That could have fatal consequences.
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:14 am
neveza Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 1147	Mythbusters also proved that being on a cell phone is just as bad as being drunk, haha, sort of scary.
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:19 am
CryoDude Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 180	neveza wrote: Mythbusters also proved that being on a cell phone is just as bad as being drunk, haha, sort of scary. I saw that one, it was funny
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:47 am
Eldibs Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 909	I feel a rant coming on about cell phones. Maybe I'll find time to put one on my site later.
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:56 am
somefatguy Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 1187	I live in a rich part of town (I'm not) and there are tons of people on their cell phones. I hate people on cell phones in or out of their car. Damn those rich people!
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:26 pm
Roy Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 416	Forget cell phones, you know who I reallllyyy love? The people who read a newspaper while driving. It really is a blatant disregard for the safety of everyone on the road.
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:35 pm
Seraven Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Posts: 52	Ahahaha. No kidding, and we're not even talking about the fact that most steer their cars with their knees in the process. Tricky bastards.
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:47 pm
x_Daze_x Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 7	People read the paper while driving? Doesn't get much dumber than that. But, yeah, I hate drivers on cell phones, as well.
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Posted on Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:15 pm
somefatguy Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 1187	hmmm...that's a new one, I have never heard about people reading the newspaper while driving, people do stupid things. But I have heard of people driving with their knees. How important could the newspaper possibly be to a person? (don't answer that...it's a rhetorical question)
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Posted on Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:06 am
PsiGuy60 Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 900	I've seen a program where driving with cell phone in hand was proven worse than driving drunk... mythbusters might have had more alcohol though. and i have had bad experiences with people reading a newspaper while driving...
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Posted on Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:40 am
flip12 Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 39	I've seen people driving while reading novels,I was like I have no idea why anyone would even do this. Driving to work isn't reading time.
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Posted on Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:58 pm
Nightshade Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 421	right now, i work for the hamilton county engineers as a summer job. we do a lot of road work, which in most cases we need to shut down streets into one lane. i help with black-topping and other duties on a list to long to mention. one of my responsibilities is flagging (directing) traffic while the others work. knowing this, i have an "authority" in what the most dangerous people driving are doing. in the 2 months working there, i have almost been hit by about 15 cars. 1 of them was the ONLY asian i have seen driving while i was working, which doesn't help the stereotype. the other 14 were people on cellphones, or elderly people. the people on cellphones 6 times out of 10 cause more "near accidents" than elderly people. i have a lot of problems with the elderly driving while we work, and cellphone users as well. the elderly must not be able to see me standing in the road wearing bright flourescent green and holding a 6 foot stop sign. the people on the phones just aren't paying attention, and ignore me completely forcing me to dive out of the street hoping oncoming traffic can react in time to swerve out of their way. i think talking on a phone while driving is very dangerous, and from my experience at work, very stupid and distracting. i also think the elderly should be retested, and need to have their liscenses revoked if they fail. both are dangerous when driving (for the most part), and need extra attention when driving next to them.
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Posted on Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:10 pm
maxus Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 851	neveza wrote: Mythbusters also proved that being on a cell phone is just as bad as being drunk, haha, sort of scary. That was a good Mythbusters episode, getting off topic....Anyway, Cell phones are illegal because too many accidents were caused when people were using them. ~M
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Posted on Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:46 pm
Apollo Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 1589	Roy wrote: Forget cell phones, you know who I reallllyyy love? The people who read a newspaper while driving. It really is a blatant disregard for the safety of everyone on the road. Nah, man. I like the people who shave and brush their teeth at the same time. Its quite funny.
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