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More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 5th 2008 1:32AM I guess you've never used the radio or any contols in your car then, huh? Statistics show using the radio contorls is even more dangerous than using a cell phone.
Wow, you must be a maniac then if you've ever even touched the radio in your car.
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 4th 2008 3:34AM "Around 98 percent of reported accidents involve a single distracted driver concentrating not on the road, but rather on one of the following Rubbernecking (16%), Driver Fatigue (12%), Surroundings (10%), Child/Passenger Distraction (9%), Adjusting Radio/CD (7%), Cell Phone (6%)"
Google it.
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 4th 2008 3:27AM Good to see that at least you understand what I'm trying to say
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 4th 2008 3:26AM If you're talking to someone over the phone you wouldn't be looking anywhere else except where you're driving in the first place. How would you miss the truck?
You'd only miss the truck if you were talking to your passenger and looking at them.
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 4th 2008 3:25AM Never been in an accident JD. I drive everyday and I see things that are much worse than people using cell phones. My arguement with this is that people like to blame stuff on cell phones when there is much worse going on.
You are true that when you said "but rather the brain power that is being diverted from your reaction time to your conversation "
Now tell me, if you are having a conversation with your passenger, and occasionally looking over, are you not even MORE distracted than if you were talking to someone elsewhere over the phone?
Perhaps some of you don't know how the Onstar phone works. You push a button on the rearview mirror and say "Call 'name'" or "Dial 'xxx-xxx-xxxx'".
My whole point is that talking to a passenger in the car is even more distracting. Either way you are having a conversation and your brain is working. At least on a cell phone you have no one to look at or make hand gestures at.
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 3rd 2008 10:34PM My car has Onstar which has a voice calling feature. Doesn't require me to divert my eyes away from the road at all.
Again, you guys can't seem to get this point in your heads. If you have no one in the car to look at, you are not looking away from the road in the first place, so why do you need an extra set of eyes?
I'm guessing that you guys complaining must never use the radio in your car. I mean, using the radio would require having to look away at where you're going. Dangerous, no?
What about navigation screens? Changing the temperature? All that requires diverting your attention away from the road. But since you guys are all perfect drivers and criticize those that use handsfree phones, I'm sure none of you use the radio, heater, a/c, or anything else in the car for that matter. Hypocrites.
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 3rd 2008 9:22PM You are assuming that your passenger is scanning the road for you while you are talking to them. Most likely the passenger is watching the driver while they are talking.
Again, if you're on a hands free cell phone, your eyes do not need to be on the phone. They will be on the road. It's not like you're text messaging and will drive into a house.
Most people look at their passengers when they talk to them. Their eyes are off the road. Argue it any way you want, taking your eyes off the road is more dangerous.
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 3rd 2008 9:15PM You wouldn't look away at the road in the first place if it was just someone on the cell phone.
If it's someone beside you, you most likely would.
You'd have to be absolutely brainless to think otherwise.
Someone on the cell phone can make no physical contact with you. People in your car can, and will, especially when they're horsing around.
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 3rd 2008 8:58PM Too bad they didn't do a study on how dangerous it is talking to passengers.
More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 3rd 2008 8:56PM Doesn't really matter whether it's in depth or not. Even if it doesn't require thinking people still usually look over at other people when talking to them.
Some people like to use hand gestures while talking to passengers as well.
My point is that people like to complain about cell phones, when talking to passengers is way more distracting.
