Driving and texting: I make no excuse for posting this on the main site because it is such a critical issue that needs maximun exposure.

braindamage Loc: Appley Bridge, Lancs, U.K.

I make no excuse for posting this on the main site because it is such a critical issue that needs maximun exposure.

poppytom

It's an epidemic everywhere. We need to do something soon before many others are hurt or killed by people physically and mentally distracted by cell phone use while driving!!

braindamage Loc: Appley Bridge, Lancs, U.K.

I am a victim and have had my life changed by a mobile phone we need to stop this now!

poppytom wrote:

It's an epidemic everywhere. We need to do something soon before many others are hurt or killed by people physically and mentally distracted by cell phone use while driving!!

braindamage Loc: Appley Bridge, Lancs, U.K.

Thank you for your support! We can do this. Everyday I see people looking down at their phones instead of concentrating on the road ahead. Let's stop the carnage and deaths that are a result of somebody responding to a text message!

poppytom wrote:

It's an epidemic everywhere. We need to do something soon before many others are hurt or killed by people physically and mentally distracted by cell phone use while driving!!

braindamage Loc: Appley Bridge, Lancs, U.K.

The mobile phone companies have a moral responsibilty to deactivate a device when inside a vehicle? End of problem?

Jim Bob

braindamage wrote:

I make no excuse for posting this on the main site because it is such a critical issue that needs maximun exposure.

Unfortunately the roads are filled with idiots. Hmm, kinda like this site.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

When Driving Your Car - Vehicle - ANY Vehicle..... Your Attention MUST be Focused On events Around YOU... NOT on some bullshit device in your lap, Or otherwise Distracting Your Attention Off of the Road.

(NOTE = Please Know that the "Caps" are for emphasis == I am Not Yelling.)

braindamage Loc: Appley Bridge, Lancs, U.K.

James you are so right but we ned to start a re-education of people who think they are capable of driving and using a mobile device when they are not. Their attention is on the mobile not on the road ahead. People are dying or having their lives ruined and ending up disabled by people who do not realise the result of their actions. We need to send a clear mesage that if you are driving a vehicle you should not use a mobile device. Full stop. Even hands free is not safe.

James R wrote:

When Driving Your Car - Vehicle - ANY Vehicle..... Your Attention MUST be Focused On events Around YOU... NOT on some bullshit device in your lap, Or otherwise Distracting Your Attention Off of the Road.

(NOTE = Please Know that the "Caps" are for emphasis == I am Not Yelling.)

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

James R wrote:

When Driving Your Car - Vehicle - ANY Vehicle..... Your Attention MUST be Focused On events Around YOU... NOT on some bullshit device in your lap, Or otherwise Distracting Your Attention Off of the Road.

(NOTE = Please Know that the "Caps" are for emphasis == I am Not Yelling.)

braindamage Loc: Appley Bridge, Lancs, U.K.

Thanks add your voice.

Longshadow wrote:

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

One way to thin the herd - seriously though, a shame for the innocents that get caught up in another's stupidity!

braindamage Loc: Appley Bridge, Lancs, U.K.

One way to thin the herd. This is what we are up against! What a sad moron that condones some one that thinks it's okay to answer a text or Facebook whilst driving and then destroys somebody elses life! Unbelievable.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Distracted driving has been going on before "devices". Drivers trying to eat, put on makeup, read maps, etc. Years ago there was a young woman here who wiped out a whole group of cyclists when she reached down to change a cassette tape.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Seen on a bumper sticker last week:
(not my photo)

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

JohnSwanda wrote:

Distracted driving has been going on before "devices". Drivers trying to eat, put on makeup, read maps, etc. Years ago there was a young woman here who wiped out a whole group of cyclists when she reached down to change a cassette tape.

I believe there is research that shows dealing with text messages or even talking to someone over the phone wile driving is different than changing a radio station, adjusting comfort controls, or even talking to a passenger. It has to do with visualizing the other party who is not in the car, and that mental process interferes with your attention to driving. I think we need more research to define where to draw the line between acceptable and barred activities while driving. In the meantime, we have a pretty good notion of the more widely separated acceptable and not acceptable activities. Let's not isolate the driver in a separate compartment with no access to a few simple controls in the car; let's consider other ways of interacting with the vehicle controls (important or frequently used controls on the steering wheel, heads up displays, voice control) that are better from a human factors/ergonomics perspective; but I fully agree with manufacturers turning off certain phone capabilities like visual text and email unless the tranny is in Park.