I hope you do not do this while driving!
But in all seriousness, if the OP absolutely must text while driving, get a different phone (try an enV or Voyager with actual keyboard) that being said my next phone is an iphone 3G (coming from a enV)
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My iPhone keyboard is GETTING ON MY LAST NERVE!
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I hope you do not do this while driving!
But in all seriousness, if the OP absolutely must text while driving, get a different phone (try an enV or Voyager with actual keyboard) that being said my next phone is an iphone 3G (coming from a enV)
Wow. Just wow. eBay and iphonewiz, I sure hope you two don't live near me. It makes me incredibly uneasy to even talk on the phone while driving. I rarely answer it only to say, "hey, I'm driving, call you later." As for texting, I wouldn't give a rat's ass about what anyone asks me in a text message. I just don't do it. I really hope you two get pulled over and ticketed/licenses suspended before you hurt anyone.
Why don't the mods intervene when it is something that they agree with, or furthers their interests? Any other thread and this baby would have been shut down and a lot of "idiot" and "ass" comments would have been deleted.
STOP injecting your values into simple questions (I've seen this too many times on MR). The OP didn't ask for views on texting while driving, he asked about a a better way to text on the iPhone.
Personally, I would like to see Apple add speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice dialing components to the iPhone. If they team up with an auto manufacturer that features HIDs, the outgoing and incoming texts and digits could be displayed right in front of the driver.
With an all-touchscreen phone like the iPhone, the solutions I mentioned above, along with the Apple Radio Remote would greatly help with safer and more convenient operation. Even phones that are "safer" to operate in risky situations offer some of the aforementioned features.
STOP injecting your values into simple questions (I've seen this too many times on MR). The OP didn't ask for views on texting while driving, he asked about a a better way to text on the iPhone.
Personally, I would like to see Apple add speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice dialing components to the iPhone. If they team up with an auto manufacturer that features HIDs, the outgoing and incoming texts and digits could be displayed right in front of the driver.
With an all-touchscreen phone like the iPhone, the solutions I mentioned above, along with the Apple Radio Remote would greatly help with safer and more convenient operation. Even phones that are "safer" to operate in risky situations offer some of the aforementioned features.
I do see your point, but in this case I can't agree with it.
The only way people like this will change their ways is if they see how much of the rest of this community is against what they do, and they are social leapors.
This is beyond someone voicing distain at someone's opinion. It is a collective push to tell them that as well as breaking the law, they are putting the lives of other people at risk.
If whilst texting they killed someone close to you, how would you react?
Would you think "I guess they can text whilst driving if they want. Who am I to say anything."?
I think not!
In short the community here is making an attempt to shut the stable door before the horse bolts.
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Totally! I also hate when I spill my beer when I stop too fast, that I swerve if I spill food on myself and the fact that there's no socket in my car forces me to use my electric shaver on its batteries.
Put your phone down and drive before you kill someone. You are truly a danger to me and everyone else on the road.
Totally! I also hate when I spill my beer when I stop too fast, that I swerve if I spill food on myself and the fact that there's no socket in my car forces me to use my electric shaver on its batteries.
Put your phone down and drive before you kill someone. You are truly a danger to me and everyone else on the road.
where on earth did you get that the mods agree with this and that this furthers their interests? not one mod has posted in this thread. this forum is so busy that the mods do not read each and every thread. they will respond when a post is flagged since that sends an email to the mod responsible for a particular forum...
this is a public forum - if someone posts something asinine, people will react. i'm not sure how you, or anyone else, could expect anything differently. if you don't like it, don't read it. go find a private forum where everyone's views and values match yours...
We aren't injecting our values, we are voicing our concerns about dangerous behavior. Not everyone should be allowed to do anything they want all the time, ESPECIALLY when it puts others at risk.
First, the legality varies amongst jurisdictions.
Second, it is one thing to let OP know how you feel about texting while driving; it is another to attack the OP, especially while not fully understanding any applicable underlying details.
Third, as clearly indicated by a poster who has decided to continue his normal routine, the criticism may not change any behavior at all.
Firstly: I imagine that it is the law in most countries to drive with due care and attention. When you are texting on your phone you are NOT driving with due care and attention.
Secondly: If my child behaves in a stupid dangerous way, I will tell her off. If I see someone in the street putting other people in danger, I will pull them up on it. This is no different. It's about morality. I admit society is going down the pan (in the UK at least), but that doesn't mean we should let it.
Third: If I can do something to save someone's life, I will do it whatever the chance of success. These people may not change their ways, but there is a slim chance that they will, and that may mean they are no longer putting someone's life at risk.
I can throw in the free speech card as well. If they want to sue me for liable, I'm up for it because based on the evidence they presented, I think my comments (and what I called them) are on solid ground.
They may text behind the wheel every day and hot hurt so much as a fly. But I don't know that and neither do you.
Seriously, you could pick a better example to fight this fight over.
So, if someone posted that they punished their children by burning them with a hot iron, should we think "hmmmm.... I won't attack this person because I don't fully understand any applicable underlying details"? I mean, maybe their kids were just total brats and deserved it!
If you text while driving, you are a f***tard. You *never* "need" to do that. It can wait, or you can pull over. There are *no* mitigating "applicable underlying details".
Maybe you just need to vent, right? Maybe it just gets under your skin soo bad that people actually text while driving. What you need to realize though is your attempts to change people are futile, people are going to do it and you are not going to change one persons mind. You're acting like one of those right wing bible bashing christians. You're an anonymus nobody posting on a message board, just like the rest of us. No sir, it is you who are the f***tard.
Your name is new but I suspect I've seen you post before.
If you feel that texting whilst driving is okay, then that says a lot about you and your place in society and how far up the moral ladder you are.
It is clear that you have zero respect for any other human, and it is people like you sir that are making society the miserable thing it is today.
If he simply started the thread to vent about the iPhone's keyboard and how difficult it is for him to type on it, then you're right, we'd have absolutely no right to jump all over him for it. I don't imagine that everyone enjoys typing on an iPhone. But no, he posts and expects sympathy because he texts while driving and the iPhone requires more attention since it has no tactile keypad.
And this isn't merely a "value" that we're trying to inject, we're telling this guy not to kill/injure anyone because he obviously has no respect for the people around him, their cars, his car, or himself by putting himself and everyone around him at risk, all for something relatively unimportant as a text message.
Dont worry about the OP. Worry about the poor person that he kills while he is texting since he cant possibly be put out by pulling over.
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You grouping me into your own self-made demographic of "people who text while driving" speaks volumes more about you than me saying, "text and driving is ok". You should not make assumptions towards people based on a single statement or belief (a lesson you should carry with you not only on MR, but in life as well).
Oh and maybe you're right maybe I'm not that high up the "moral ladder" maybe I am actually at the very bottom of that ladder holding it steady for you and your mighty climb towards the top, but be careful friend, lest I release my grip on it...
If the mods were gonna do anything to this thread they'd delete it entirely because it's a post asking how to do something that's illegal in many regions.
If someone asked how to a kill a person using their iPhone as a weapon then people would rightfully get just as pissed and the thread would be deleted even quicker by the mods. You wanna bring the mods attention to this thread? Be my guest, click the white and red exclamation icon at the bottom left of anyone's comment who you think is saying something against the forum rules Then you'll see whether the mods don't like when personal opinions on the given topic of the thread are being expressed, which is NOT against forum rules, or if they'll decide that asking for advice on how to do something illegal is against the forum rules. Hmmm. I wonder which position they'll take? It's not hard to guess the answer, is it?
What about all these people who post that are wishing death on those who do the 8th deadly sin (text and drive). Is that legal on MR?
Legal on MR? There's no such thing. Allowed on MR? You'd have to ask a mod.
Personally, I think people's comments here aren't threatening harm, they're just saying that when the person's reckless actions that he admitted he does inevitably leads to him having an accident they hope that he learns his lessons and doesn't hurt anyone else in the process. All any of us want here is to do what we can to prevent a person from doing something illegal that has a very high risk of seriously hurting or even killing an innocent bystander. How could that be against the forum rules?