It's perfectly logical. People on the phone are shiatty, slow drivers. Emphasis on SLOW.


get off the phone or get yourself a hands-free

HappyHarryHardOn: It's perfectly logical. People on the phone are shiatty, slow drivers. Emphasis on SLOW.


get off the phone or get yourself a hands-free

Do you have any idea how hard it is to order pizza and have them get the order right on a cellphone? for some reason, most people drive slower when they have to talk slower. Amusing, annoying, and true all at once.

I shiat you not, I saw a car in front of me with a 'Hang Up And Drive' bumper sticker with the driver on the effing phone.

HappyHarryHardOn: It's perfectly logical. People on the phone are shiatty, slow drivers. Emphasis on SLOW.


get off the phone or get yourself a hands-free

Hands free is no better than holding the phone in terms of safety.

RedMosquito: I shiat you not, I saw a car in front of me with a 'Hang Up And Drive' bumper sticker with the driver on the effing phone.

I have seen that too, was the driver going 20 mph on the highway when you say it too?

RedMosquito: I shiat you not, I saw a car in front of me with a 'Hang Up And Drive' bumper sticker with the driver on the effing phone.

You shoulda rammed the fark.

My conversation is very important.

Helios1182: Hands free is no better than holding the phone in terms of safety.

We should ban passengers too since by that logic talking to the person next to you is no better in terms of safety as well.

cell phones should be illegal PERIOD

they are both annoying and unnecessary.


anybody caught up in the claptrap
is simply fiddling while rome burns.

I don't understand how talking on a hands free is any different then talking to someone in the car.

bravian: We should ban passengers too since by that logic talking to the person next to you is no better in terms of safety as well.

The difference between a conversation with a passenger and a person on the phone is, with a passenger, you have an extra set of eyes to watch for hazards and a conversation partner who is able to monitor the traffic situation and pause the conversation when things get dicey.

taurusowner: I don't understand how talking on a hands free is any different then talking to someone in the car.

The focus and concentration needed to talk on a phone (hands-free or not) are totally different than those same skills when talking to a person in the car.

taurusowner: I don't understand how talking on a hands free is any different then talking to someone in the car.

At least if you're talking to someone in the car that's a another person with an interest on keeping their eyes on road.

Anyways the conversations people have on cell phones are so often just pointless filler that would go unsaid in person. A moment of silence doesn't have to be awkward and scary.

speedballtucker: bravian: We should ban passengers too since by that logic talking to the person next to you is no better in terms of safety as well.

The difference between a conversation with a passenger and a person on the phone is, with a passenger, you have an extra set of eyes to watch for hazards and a conversation partner who is able to monitor the traffic situation and pause the conversation when things get dicey.

If you don't know to kill or pause a conversation when "things get dicey" just because you're on the phone, you are a bad driver anyway.

Russad: If you don't know to kill or pause a conversation when "things get dicey" just because you're on the phone, you are a bad driver anyway.

Yep. And there are lots of 'em out there.

Not the only thing that should be banned.

Stupid tag is for Subby. HANG UP AND DRIVE.

speedballtucker That might be the stupidest argument i have ever heard.

fly over states have cell phones?

davynelson: cell phones should be illegal PERIOD

they are both annoying and unnecessary.


Are you kidding me? Things such as what Joan's friend's boyfriend's sister said to Mary's neighbor's daughter's friend are far too important to wait until you get home. Cell phones are a necessity!

speedballtucker: The difference between a conversation with a passenger and a person on the phone is, with a passenger, you have an extra set of eyes to watch for hazards and a conversation partner who is able to monitor the traffic situation and pause the conversation when things get dicey.

Have you ever actually been in a car? Ya know - one of those electric carriage thingies that are all over the road? Because if you have been you would realize your comment is completely ludicrous.

/my dog does a better job of watching for 'hazards' than any human out there when in a car

John Buck 41:
The focus and concentration needed to talk on a phone (hands-free or not) are totally different than those same skills when talking to a person in the car.

You'd be surprised... I went to RIT back in the day, and there are a lot of young deaf drivers from NTID out and about around there. Both hands signing furiously while looking directly at the passenger; that was always fun to follow.

Studies show driving while on the phone is just as dangerous as driving drunk. If you think either is okay, you're an idiot.

/can't wait till it's banned here
//people on phones are terrible drivers

Why would anyone fantasize about their secretary?

It's Iowa, so their probably fantasizing about fiddling with their children.

I actually was backed into by a teenage girl on a cell phone in a parking lot. I laid on the horn for several seconds before she put her bumper into my rear driver side door. According to her, she didn't hear the horn. Happened 2 summers ago.



///so I am getting a kick out of these replies

J. W. Booth: fly over states have cell phones?

They even have cars.

davynelson: cell phones should be illegal PERIOD

they are both annoying and unnecessary.

Same thing with any type of GPS. What a pointless piece of crap.

/and beer

wtf is with people who are on their cells when they're BACKING OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAY?

Really, you couldn't have had that conversation in the house?

They have lesbians, too. Lesbians with cell phones and cars and everything.

/Approves

You'd think I stumbled into a political thread based on the responses I've gotten so far. There was a discussion about how a conversational partner is different from a cell phone conversation, and I gave a couple of theories from studies I've read about cell phone use. I deal with cognition, so it's part of my job to read up on this. Fact is, there are even studies that say cell phone use isn't a big deal, especially if it's casual conversation (vs. business or "complex" conversation). Enjoy ripping me to shreds with your conventional wisdom instead of researching about this stuff, Farkers.

Drive or talk, make up your frikken mind.

Great! Now I can use my other hand to masturbate!

So now I've got to get bluetooth enabled makeup, cheeseburgers, radio, and secretary too?

I really wanted to post the "Cow Phone" Far Side frame, but so it goes.

Last time I was in Iowa, they didn't have motorcycle helmet laws. If they put THIS into effect, perhaps they should revisit THAT as well.

TheOther: It's Iowa, so their probably fantasizing about fiddling with their children.

Since when was Iowa considered a redneck state?

/We voted for Obama and have the 3rd highest graduation rate

chrischris451
I actually was backed into by a teenage girl on a cell phone in a parking lot. I laid on the horn for several seconds before she put her bumper into my rear driver side door. According to her, she didn't hear the horn. Happened 2 summers ago.



///so I am getting a kick out of these replies

I got t-boned two years ago this week by a chick who ran a stop sign in a mall parking lot; she was talking on her cell, of course. And she was an Iowa driver.
Now, I drive across the I-74 bridge every day to go to work in Iowa, and it never ceases to amaze me how many people are yapping on their phones on both sides of the river.

/likewise getting a kick out of said replies

bravian: Helios1182: Hands free is no better than holding the phone in terms of safety.

We should ban passengers too since by that logic talking to the person next to you is no better in terms of safety as well.

Multiple scientific studies have shown that talking on a cell phone is not the same as talking to someone in a car. Regardless of what your intuition tells you about them being the same, they are not. In fact, they have shown that the level of impairment is similar to a person that is legally intoxicated.

davynelson: cell phones should be illegal PERIOD

they are both annoying and unnecessary.


anybody caught up in the claptrap
is simply fiddling while rome burns.

They let you use the computer in the old folks home?

Give them a fancy product, get them hooked, then make it illegal to use it.

It is my solemnly sworn duty to turn this thread into a hot secretary thread.

Is cell phone use distracting or are the people who drive stupidly while talking on the cell phone just bad drivers? Face it, some folks are just easily distra

Helios1182: bravian: Helios1182: Hands free is no better than holding the phone in terms of safety.

We should ban passengers too since by that logic talking to the person next to you is no better in terms of safety as well.

Multiple scientific studies have shown that talking on a cell phone is not the same as talking to someone in a car. Regardless of what your intuition tells you about them being the same, they are not.

This is true, but there are plenty of legal distractions and enough existing laws on the books in regards to reckless driving. We simply need to enforce the laws we already have.

In fact, they have shown that the level of impairment is similar to a person that is legally intoxicated.

Some have shown this but there is an important difference. When talking on a cell phone one can become completely unimpaired instantly. This is not true when driving intoxicated.

I seemed to have lost some html tags in that last post.

/it doesn't matter that her monitor & keyboard are hooked up to nothing, as long as she shows me some leg.

The headline explains why I'm again cell phone bans. Instead we need to enforce existing laws against shiatty driving. It's okay to slam into a school bus because you were fiddling with your iPod, but not because you were on your cell phone? What about iPhones? You know the person will just claim they were changing songs or looking at the map and not on the phone.

geetus: It is my solemnly sworn duty to turn this thread into a hot secretary thread.

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/Seconded