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Really, I would recommend that the thread title be amended to: "The use of cell phones while driving should be banned" (a sentiment with which I would find myself in complete agreement, by the way), rather than the current somewhat over-stated title, which, while guaranteed to attract a readership and startled responses, seems to me to be missing the point of what the thread in reality, is actually all about.
 
Really, I would recommend that the thread title be amended to: "The use of cell phones while driving should be banned" (a sentiment with which I would find myself in complete agreement, by the way), rather than the current somewhat over-stated title, which, while guaranteed to attract a readership and startled responses, seems to me to be missing the point of what the thread in reality, is actually all about.

Actually, I'm sometimes of the opinion they should ban cell phones :D.

It's not just driving and using cell phones that has issues. People walking while talking on a cellphone can be very dangerous and I find cell phone use in a public area can be disruptive and rude. I'm just glad that they decided to keep the ban on cellphone use in flight. Four hours on an airplane stuck next to someone on their cellphone sounds very painful.
 
Actually, I'm sometimes of the opinion they should ban cell phones :D.

It's not just driving and using cell phones that has issues. People walking while talking on a cellphone can be very dangerous and I find cell phone use in a public area can be disruptive and rude. I'm just glad that they decided to keep the ban on cellphone use in flight. Four hours on an airplane stuck next to someone on their cellphone sounds very painful.

To a certain extent, I agree with you.

However, I merely wished to make a point about the divergence between the title of the thread, and the content of the OP's original post.

Re appropriate usage of mobile phones, well, in my teaching days, I have had to throw a student out of class because the youngster in question (the student in question was from a well off background, astoundingly arrogant, with a bottomless sense of entitlement) insisted on taking a call in class.

Actually, I think the problem lies in the fact that the use for he technology is so new that an etiquette, or an agreed set of social norms have not yet emerged or been agreed as to how this device ought to be used in public.


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The real answer is to ban teenagers. They are the main culprits.

Ouch. This is funny, and there is more than a little truth in it.

However, many of those who offend most and demonstrate sheer, loud, obnoxious behaviour have come from entitled individuals who are a good deal older than teenagers giving themselves permission to behave badly when they have a mobile, or cell phone, in their hand, glued to their ear....
 
I can assure you that nothing was edited out. On these fora, I am quite clear that I write whatever it is I wish to say. However, I do plead guilty to the use of euphemism……….as the art of understatement is one that is somewhat under-utilised, to my mind.[/QUOTE]

I read it again, and see why I misunderstood it the first time.
 
There's a Roseanne Roseannadanna editorial in there somewhere:

"Cells should be banned from using phones..."
 
You seem angry...:mad:

Cell phones suck! Everyone likes to pretend they have a sense of self-importance.

Depends on who you ask and whether or not it's an iPhone, Andriod, Windows, or Blackberry phone. :p

Is the World any better with cell phones? No.

You're wrong there. It's not really even a matter of opinion. While cell phone usage has led to bad things, they do serve their purpose for good things. Emergencies for one thing, especially when you're not at home or near a land line/payphone.

Are you happier than you were without a cell phone? I doubt.

Watch next month when the iPhone 6 gets launched. Many will be...


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U are right. It is the user - but it is always the case the slow person in the left lane is gabbing, not driving. I love my tech. I love cell phones - but mainly for the data - and it is equally as many men as women. Today just happened to be a young girl but old men are just as bad. This problem knows no boundaries. :(

I'm afraid you are correct. It's going to take a bunch more of horrific crashes and fatalities before enough people wise up to make driving while talking / texting / whatever (watching a movie?!) just totally socially unacceptable, never mind illegal.

It's already illegal in many states, as others have noted. However, enforcement is spotty (understandably), and so many people seem to have that off-the-wall inner assurance that their occasional (?!) use of a smartphone while driving is no big deal. All it takes is one exception and they're dead with no chance to learn that they were wrong (and maybe took someone else's life as well as their own).

Law enforcement budgets are strained but there need to be some concerted spot checks and accompanying media publicity to avoid racking up horrible stats from the deadly combination of jacked-up speed limits, texting while driving and so far getting away with it.

Some more public service ads in prime time and on the net would be a good idea. Relatives of dead texters-while-driving. Friends don't let friends text while driving and etc etc. It's maybe worse than substance-impaired driving, only because it's probably more prevalent now than stoned driving... although who really knows, with some states having legalized medical marijuana and the whole country dealing with opiate addiction as a spinoff of the long overdue crackdown on semi-recreational painkiller prescriptions.

One way or another, it's risky to bet that the oncoming driver or the one about to cut you off is completely focused on the task of controlling his or her moving weapon of choice. Yet what can we do, we have to get to the job or the store or the ballfield to pick up the kids. I swear now I think about places I could veer towards if I see someone drifting acorss the line at me... this stretch of road I'd go off to the right, that stretch I'd have to cross the line myself if I had time and a clear lane... plus around here none of the roads were really engineered for speeds of even 55, and people are hitting 70 on them. Sometimes I see them texting on the town roads I take as shortcuts to various villages around here. That's really nuts since half those roads are barely paved and have terrible potholes. Yet these kids are driving their big ol' pickups and texting. And leaving not much room for oncoming. I only take the roads because otherwise the trips are twice as long. Maybe I should think about twice as long meaning longer to live, though!

I used to love getting into the car and just driving down to NYC from the mountains now and then. Just on a whim on a nice day. See a few people from the back-then days, hang out in the coffee shop for awhile or hit a museum, grab some great takeout from some ethnic food place that actually knows how to cook what they're selling, slap that into the cooler and head back upstate. Not any more. I do it once in awhile but I always feel like I should put my affairs in order first, just in case I meet a texter right before meeting my Maker. At 80 miles an hour because that's the minimum speed now as one approaches the city, even if the limit is 65. It's sad, really. Rushing to meet death on the highway?! I may give up those trips pretty soon. I'd rather die falling over the damn cat coming downstairs in the morning, or trying to uproot the last of that obnoxious bishopweed from out the back of my garden. ;)
 
Really, I would recommend that the thread title be amended to: "The use of cell phones while driving should be banned" (a sentiment with which I would find myself in complete agreement, by the way), rather than the current somewhat over-stated title, which, while guaranteed to attract a readership and startled responses, seems to me to be missing the point of what the thread in reality, is actually all about.

Yes, yes, I admit there was little forethought as the thread was created out of frustration. I should had begun the sentence with something like " While driving the use of "
I'm pretty sure from the subsequent posts that most folks read that into my meaning.
 
Yes, yes, I admit there was little forethought as the thread was created out of frustration. I should had begun the sentence with something like " While driving the use of "
I'm pretty sure from the subsequent posts that most folks read that into my meaning.

Undoubtedly, those actually reading their way through the tread will know exactly what it is all about.

However, if simply scrolling through the thread titles, one may draw different conclusions as to what the discussion is all about.

Never mind. The thread is yours, not mine, to edit.
 
Undoubtedly, those actually reading their way through the tread will know exactly what it is all about.

However, if simply scrolling through the thread titles, one may draw different conclusions as to what the discussion is all about.

Never mind. The thread is yours, not mine, to edit.

Agreed.
DONE!
 
Fully autonomous cars :eek: Where is the fun in that, I love driving and would hate to have that taken away from me. Also, the thought of letting a computer drive me around is...frightening, just look at the problems that spring up with the computers we have now!!!!

I enjoy driving, too. But most drivers overestimate their ability to deal with distractions and adverse conditions. The majority of traffic accidents aren't caused by equipment failures - they're the result of operator error, whether it's a drunk crossing the median or a distracted driver going through a stop sign or red light. Technology, implemented and used wisely, can reduce the number of deaths and injuries.
 
I enjoy driving, too. But most drivers overestimate their ability to deal with distractions and adverse conditions. The majority of traffic accidents aren't caused by equipment failures - they're the result of operator error, whether it's a drunk crossing the median or a distracted driver going through a stop sign or red light. Technology, implemented and used wisely, can reduce the number of deaths and injuries.

Yes, I agree with you there. We need, and this applies to US and UK (and many many other countries) to re-educate ALL road users, cyclist and pedestrians included, to the dangers and the responsibility, that goes with using our highways and byways. I trained as a driving instructor, many years ago, and now I notice the sloppy practices that some of todays instructors seem to be passing on to their pupils. We all need to up our game!!!
 
Cell phones are not the problem. They are quite useful, and could be considered emergency equipment.

The problem is the user, not the device.



Now let's see how long before this turns into a gun thread...

Or an anit-cop thread because now all cops will do is harass people who are on their phone and give them tickets. The injustice. "I was just on my phone!" :rolleyes:
 
Now I agree with the (amended) title of the OP's thread! Sadly it's not the case everywhere, I recommend the stockade. :mad:

As for those saying cell (or smartphones) should be banned well...

(An ipad but you get the idea).
 

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Pretty well banned from your hand/ear here. Also the roadside cameras are now good enough to get your license plate and a clear shot of your face and hands while speeding, not wearing a seatbelt and using a handheld phone, ipod, ipad or whatever at the same time. So far the news hasn't reported anyone copping the triple yet or at least I haven't heard so far.
 
Pretty well banned from your hand/ear here. Also the roadside cameras are now good enough to get your license plate and a clear shot of your face and hands while speeding, not wearing a seatbelt and using a handheld phone, ipod, ipad or whatever at the same time. So far the news hasn't reported anyone copping the triple yet or at least I haven't heard so far.

Give it time :D
 
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