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oldenew
Joined: 25 Aug 2009
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 Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject: The safety of cellphones |
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http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Cellphone+talking+drivers+notice+unicycling+clowns+Study/2141874/story.html
Check out this little gem about how much cellphones can distract you from what is going on. Canada is being very vigilant in making hand-held phones illegal while driving. I have always maintained that they should be illegal. All the research I have read points to talking on a cellphone while driving being worse than being slightly under the influence of alcohol...not drunk, just a little bit buzzed (which ironically is often accompanied by slightly higher driving vigilence due to fear).
Add to this the fact that a cellphone conversation may be highly passionate - negatively or positively - and other things may be included as well such as radios, other people in the car, traffic of course..talking on the cellphone while driving is not safe and should be banned. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Why not ban playing with the radio, eating, talking to people IN the car etc? Why not just ban CARS?
Most people who drive cars are fully grown adult, fully capable of making rational decisions. If you treat people as anything other than fully grown adults, they will act like anything other than adults. |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:24 am Post subject: |
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As long as people endanger others lives, it makes it the business of the state.
| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
Why not ban playing with the radio, eating, talking to people IN the car etc? Why not just ban CARS?
Most people who drive cars are fully grown adult, fully capable of making rational decisions. If you treat people as anything other than fully grown adults, they will act like anything other than adults. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
Why not ban playing with the radio, eating, talking to people IN the car etc? Why not just ban CARS?
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Studies have shown that talking or worse texting while driving is more dangerous than any of those activities. If you have a conversation with someone in the car, they have some situational awareness of what's going on in traffic too, so they can alert you to danger, or at least shut up.
It's worth pointing out that hands-free stuff like bluetooth headsets or whatever are perfectly fine in Canada |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| I heard somewhere (a podcast I think) that hands free sets are just as dangerous as holding the phone and talking, with texting being the most dangerous. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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cpolian
Joined: 18 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Erm isn't this pretty old news? Many states/countries have banned any use of cell phones while driving. |
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