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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Ha sorry, the majority of drivers you see talking on the phone sure as hell are not paying attension to how they are driving.
Constantly see people either driving real slow, driving real slow in a bike lane, speeding, driving through red lights, missing gears in a manual gear change, change lanes with indicating, cut people off.... all while on the phone.
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My research of seeing slow drivers all over the road mostly on the phone shows otherwise.
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Perth
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People will see this article, start to use their phones more whilst driving = more fines given...
yep yep yep yep whichever way you look at it it has crock written all over it.....
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2009
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I never talk on the phone and drive, but sometimes i text and i find i slow down a lot and loose concertration.
So i stopped doing that, scares me to much |
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Cruising...
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Perth
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But cmon, its really not that hard (in most suburban situations) to just pull over or even stop in the far left lane (where possible and logical).
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Perth NOR.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUzQA...eature=related
Do I dare say that if this person was not on the phone this would not of happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M74j...eature=related Yes it does make you more alert after the accident.
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11 day period hey? Did they monitor four cars too?
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A bull-**** study is what I say, done by a phone company -- LOL what a scam
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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That article is completely crap. Going by my own lack of attention towards my driving while talking on the phone, as well as personally judging others' bad driving, then being able to see the driver was on the phone in a lot of cases. Yes, people might TRY to be more cautious, but being cautious and being attentive are not the same things.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Sydney
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I am a rep and spend an inordinate amount of time on the phone while driving and have done for 20 odd years now without ( touch wood ) a single accident . If your'e a good driver with good situational awareness and the ability to do more than one thing at a time wheres the problem ? I suspect most people who blame mobile phone usage for accidents they cause may be in a lot of cases looking to diminish their responsibility or just simply not face the fact they are a crap driver . If I had to pull over to the side of the road to make a phone call it would take me a week to do what I now do in half a day .
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With such a small sample size, the error in the results is going to be so high that a 'significant' correlation is not going to be possible. |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Melbourne
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Unfortunately most people on the road have next to no situational awareness.
Just last week I had to avoid a car that drifted partway into my lane - the driver was a Vietnamese girl with her eyes looking down below the steering wheel, texting, no doubt. A quick blast of my horn scared her and she swerved back into her lane. It's not just Asian women; a few months ago in the CBD I was behind a businessman in a Ferrari weaving left and right at 10kph below the speed limit. Idiot was chattering away on his mobile.
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Any distraction from the safe operation of a vehicle can and will have negative consequences. |
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In my own stupidity I've nearly lost control of the car because I was texting and drifted onto the shoulder. Never again. I'd be interested to know who paid for the study. Vodaphone? Nokia?
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I was on my way to work on a big coach (the trains were offline) yesterday and it's amazing what you see looking down into peoples' cars as they're driving down the motorway. People reading books/magazines, texting, talking on the phone, eating breakfast (with both hands), gesturing wildly to their passenger while steering with their knees, getting dressed, etc. These people need to be clipped over the head and have their licences torn up.
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Yes distraction while driving are always safe.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I call BS here, I get p!$$ed off quite easily when people impede traffic and majority of the time it's people on phones. Text driving really annoys me.
I wish I could be a UC and pull over these idiots.
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