PSA: please please don't TXT and drive

[Acer]

We had two cars totaled by others' "inattentive" driving in three months last summer.100% the other drivers' faults. (They were both beaters we got for our kids to share, so it didn't take much damage to total, TBH.) I don't know for sure it was texting, but drifting left-of-center and rear-ended at a traffic light...you be the judge.

I was almost t-boned at a traffic light just the other night, but I think she was lighting a cig.

[mattkime]

IMO, I'm not so crazy about the 'don't text and drive' message. its too activity / technology dependent.

how about

PAY FUCKING ATTENTION WHILE DRIVING.

that should be it, period.

[Todd's keyboard]

While frustrating, there are some indications that society is implementing positive changes towards distracted driving. It seems similar to campaigns that have been made regarding littering on the highways and DIU. (Other examples of societal changes in my memory are smoking and attitudes towards picking up after one's pet.)

Below is a link to an article about RCMP officers in British Columbia using telescopes and cameras to detect distracted drivers from 1.2 kilometres (sic, eh?) away.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/di...-1.3586268

Mentioned near the end of the article is an announcement that a first-time distracted driving offense is going up to CAN $543. A second offense will cost CAN $888.

Todd's will-no-longer-even-change-look-at-his-iPod-while-driving keyboard

[Kraniac]

I don't understand the people on this thread who take issue with the OP issuing a specific reminder with the example of their son alongside...

Are you paranoid? Rattled by life? Rattle by not so loud noises? Strange responses from you folks...

Unreal..Be glad for these small reminders that are close to home..these are the things that we tend to forget..take for granted.

[RAMd®d]

You don't?

Seriously?

Then let me 'splain it to you.

It's not the what, it's the how.


these are the things that we tend to forget..take for granted.

Yes. because we're the one's too texting and driving.

[Kraniac]

I read it again..zero wrong with his approach and delivery.

..zero, Rammy.

You didn't splain a thing there.

[D. Lawson]

RAMd®d wrote:
It's not the what, it's the how.

Curiously, this also applies to several of the replies in this thread.

[Rick-o]

Janit wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
Hello, I'm cbelt3- and I'm *sob* a serial poster. (Reaches for coffee..)

Why is everyone so upset about cereal posting? I mean, if you want to talk about what you ate for breakfast, who cares? Cornflakes, oatmeal, even Count Chockula, everyone has a right to their own breakfast choices.

I mean, if we start censoring talk about breakfast, where will it end? We will all end up eating in the closet. And let me tell you my closet is full of mold, which I would really rather not get on my food.

And then the shoes. If I have to eat in the closet, where will I put my shoes?

That's SERIAL posting, Emily, not CEREAL posting.



Oh! Never mind.

I miss those misguided rants! :biggrin:

Glad to hear your son didn't get hurt, cbelt.

[Speedy]

Not hard to figure out in this thread who drives while texting.

[RAMd®d]

Not hard to figure out in this thread who drives while texting.

Odd.

I didn't think anybody here actually texted while driving.

So he wasn't preaching to the choir?

That's disappointing.