Cellphone Use while driving - withheld data

Republican congressman, knee-deep in lobbyist cash, put a lot of pressure on scientists to shelve data or risk losing their jobs and being blackballed... what's new?
 
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where are the libertarians and republicans weighing in on the right to talk while driving

jeez, this is bad news

cell phone drivers are almost as bad as suv drivers
 
I am sure both sides are guilty of pressuring to keep this info on the shelf. Or at least I didn't see any party named.
 
DonQuixote said:
where are the libertarians and republicans weighing in on the right to talk while driving

jeez, this is bad news

cell phone drivers are almost as bad as suv drivers
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Sadly, too often they are the same. They can't handle the behemoth on the road in the first place. Then they stick a phone up to their ear, removing the use of one hand and a large segment of the visual field. Oh, and of course they no longer have a hand with which to flick on the turn signal, if they ever were inclined to do so in the first place. And these are the people who take up three lanes to make a right turn.

There are times when I'd dearly love to have a really powerful air horn, except that the offender wouldn't be the only one to be disconcerted by a blast from it and it would be likely to cause accidents.
 
Thorn said:
Sadly, too often they are the same. They can't handle the behemoth on the road in the first place. Then they stick a phone up to their ear, removing the use of one hand and a large segment of the visual field. Oh, and of course they no longer have a hand with which to flick on the turn signal, if they ever were inclined to do so in the first place. And these are the people who take up three lanes to make a right turn.

There are times when I'd dearly love to have a really powerful air horn, except that the offender wouldn't be the only one to be disconcerted by a blast from it and it would be likely to cause accidents.
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I always longed for an invibible ray device that would just cause them to crap their pants.
Same with the road rage drivers. You would be suprised how quickly that would calm them down.
 
uscitizen said:
I always longed for an invibible ray device that would just cause them to crap their pants.
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Well, actually, in my fantasy the airhorn would have a similar effect, just pee themselves though. That should be embarrassing and uncomfortable enough. You wouldn't want to impose that response on everybody nearby!
 
Thorn said:
Well, actually, in my fantasy the airhorn would have a similar effect, just pee themselves though. That should be embarrassing and uncomfortable enough. You wouldn't want to impose that response on everybody nearby!
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No it would have to be a precise directed ray.
Fantasies are that way ;)

I always wanted to put a subliminal "gotta pee" message in rap music as well.
 
DonQuixote said:
where are the libertarians and republicans weighing in on the right to talk while driving

jeez, this is bad news

cell phone drivers are almost as bad as suv drivers
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Today I drove from Seattle to Olympia with a 30 oz. Mt. Dew in my hand. My cell phone sat motionless to my side. Of course, if it would have rang, I would have set the pop down and answered it. I don't give a fuck what you leftist Nazis say about cell phones. OTOH could your lousy-ass driving "skillz" have something to do with it?

Why don't you people just go kill yourselves already? I'm tired of having to take a right-hand turn, due to a mindless road barrier being constructed, thus preventing a tricky unprotected left-hand turn as a result of inferior drivers getting into accidents, also. But of course, you leftists are all about protection, aren't you? Planned Automobile, anyone?
 
Threedee said:
Today I drove from Seattle to Olympia with a 30 oz. Mt. Dew in my hand. My cell phone sat motionless to my side. Of course, if it would have rang, I would have set the pop down and answered it. I don't give a fuck what you leftist Nazis say about cell phones. OTOH could your lousy-ass driving "skillz" have something to do with it?

Why don't you people just go kill yourselves already? I'm tired of having to take a right-hand turn, due to a mindless road barrier being constructed, thus preventing a tricky unprotected left-hand turn as a result of inferior drivers getting into accidents, also. But of course, you leftists are all about protection, aren't you? Planned Automobile, anyone?
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We aren't trying to run your life. But if I had a nickel for every close call I have had with some idiot on a cell phone or texting, I would retire to some tropical island and live like a king.

On most subject I don't care how you live. But when I am literally dodging some fool who drifts into my lane because they aren't paying attention to piloting a vehicle we aretalking about my life.
 
WinterBorn said:
We aren't trying to run your life. But if I had a nickel for every close call I have had with some idiot on a cell phone or texting, I would retire to some tropical island and live like a king.

On most subject I don't care how you live. But when I am literally dodging some fool who drifts into my lane because they aren't paying attention to piloting a vehicle we aretalking about my life.
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Amen, brother WB.

These phone touting louts are a menace to the ordinary law abiding road user. These days it is almost impossible to take a scenic drive, along the glorious open road, without having to swerve to avoid some mindless herbert with a telephone clamped to his 'orrible earhole.

And when one is hurtling along the Queen's highway at eighty miles an hour the last thing one wants to do is take evasive action to avoid Johnny Telephone in his delivery van, especially when one is in the middle of composing a rather important text. Hanging's too good for 'em, i say.
 
Threedee said:
Today I drove from Seattle to Olympia with a 30 oz. Mt. Dew in my hand. My cell phone sat motionless to my side. Of course, if it would have rang, I would have set the pop down and answered it. I don't give a fuck what you leftist Nazis say about cell phones. OTOH could your lousy-ass driving "skillz" have something to do with it?

Why don't you people just go kill yourselves already? I'm tired of having to take a right-hand turn, due to a mindless road barrier being constructed, thus preventing a tricky unprotected left-hand turn as a result of inferior drivers getting into accidents, also. But of course, you leftists are all about protection, aren't you? Planned Automobile, anyone?
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Jesus Christ Threedee. I'm completely outraged! How can you do that? How can you be so uncaring of your safety and the safety of others? How can you dive down the road with a 30 oz bottle of dew? Why not just suck down a bottle of Methyl Ethyl Ketone or Hydrochloric acid or some other hazardous waste?

Man, driving down the road talking on your CP is bad enough but sucking down dew at the same time? You sir are a moving hazard!!
 
charver said:
Amen, brother WB.

These phone touting louts are a menace to the ordinary law abiding road user. These days it is almost impossible to take a scenic drive, along the glorious open road, without having to swerve to avoid some mindless herbert with a telephone clamped to his 'orrible earhole.

And when one is hurtling along the Queen's highway at eighty miles an hour the last thing one wants to do is take evasive action to avoid Johnny Telephone in his delivery van, especially when one is in the middle of composing a rather important text. Hanging's too good for 'em, i say.
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It could be worse. They could be watching TV.
 
Long ago I realized that even when I used my hands-free device driving was effected and stopped using the device while driving. It isn't that hard to just not pick up and get your VM when you stop.
 
Damo we are trained to answer the phone when it rings at all costs. Must answer phone! must answer phone!

Heck I have voice mail and sometimes people will call and I do not answer. When I return their call they ask "why didn't you answer the phone, I know you were home". My answer, I did not want to.

Slaves to technology and everyone elses beck and call. sheesh.
 
Damocles said:
Long ago I realized that even when I used my hands-free device driving was effected and stopped using the device while driving. It isn't that hard to just not pick up and get your VM when you stop.
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or pull over if you need to take the call. Personally I hate CP's. I had to walk around at work for nearly 10 years with one of those damned things strapped to me and it seemed I never got a moments peace. I finally got to the point where if I was off duty I'd turn the damned thing off and throw it in my glovebox. That freaked my wife out who to this day can't comprehend why anyone wouldn't want to incessantly jabber on a cell phone or at the least be available to incessently jabber on a cell phone. If I want to mess with her, I hide her CP and if she notices it gone, she freaks out! LOL

When we got married I dropped the law down. No talking on the phone at dinner time. She didn't like that but acceptied it.
 
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Mottleydude said:
or pull over if you need to take the call. Personally I hate CP's. I had to walk around at work for nearly 10 years with one of those damned things strapped to me and it seemed I never got a moments peace. I finally got to the point where if I was off duty I'd turn the damned thing off and throw it in my glovebox. That freaked my wife out who to this day can't comprehend why anyone wouldn't want to incessantly jabber on a cell phone or at the least be available to incessently jabber on a cell phone. If I want to mess with her, I hide her CP and if she notices it gone, she freaks out! LOL

When we got married I dropped the law down. No talking on the phone at dinner time. She didn't like that but acceptied it.
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Yup. I set that rule. Sometimes I have to remind the kids.
 
What will happen if there is conclusive proof that cell phones cause brain tumors?

Mass denial will be the first reaction I expect.

A recession might be the result when reality sets in.

Phone addicts are pitiful.
 
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