Is everyone driving and texting? (1 Viewer)

[Harry Manback]

So there were 220,000 car wrecks in North Carolina the last year we have records for. This means there were 600 or so a day in a 365 day year. Assuming that the majority happen where the majority of cars are would lead one to believe that in a major metro area it wouldn't be hard to see a wreck most days. Maybe even witness a few if you do more than commute. And NC isn't the biggest state population wise.

By the way the one percent figure given, if even close, still means 2200 of those are caused by distracted drivers with phones.

No way would someone witness an accident even once a week even if they were on the road all day long.

You may be able to drive around and see the aftermath of a accident almost every day, but actually witnessed the event is a rare thing. I have seen maybe three or four in my entire lifetime.

Oh I've seen a bunch.

Aside from those I've been directly involved in, I've seen fender benders at drive-thrus, I saw a truck run OVER a car trying to take a left turn in a right turn only lane, neglecting to look to see if a car was in the left lane.

I saw a car sideswipe another car on a double lane off ramp.

I've seen multiple other fender bender/rear endings.

note to self - stay away from Harry Manback.

LOL I live in Mass. Lot's of traffic and lot's of aggressive #######s.

 

[Harry Manback]

I can't say I never text and drive.

I can't say that I only text and drive while at a stop light.

I TRY to only text as stop lights.

But it's a hard, stupid habit to break.

What I don't do is justify/rationalize it. I most likely WILL get into an accident as a direct result, unless I completely stop.

 

[Zow]

I can't say I never text and drive.

I can't say that I only text and drive while at a stop light.

I TRY to only text as stop lights.

But it's a hard, stupid habit to break.

What I don't do is justify/rationalize it. I most likely WILL get into an accident as a direct result, unless I completely stop.

You've never been in an accident because of it, right? Well there you go.

 

[Chemical X]

I passed 3 texters today......looking down at lap, drifting, incessant brake tapping. if i see a cop, can i alert them to what i've seen?

 

[Zow]

I passed 3 texters today......looking down at lap, drifting, incessant brake tapping. if i see a cop, can i alert them to what i've seen?

Sure, if you want to be a snitch.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Just downloaded ATT DriveMode. Time to stop being so dumb.

I turned it on yesterday for funsies. I usually don't check phone anyway, so I didn't notice during the drive..but I did notice I had to turn it off after I got out of the truck because it still thought I was driving or whatever.

Same thing happened this morning.

I suppose it may take a couple of minutes or you have to manually turn it off because it might think you're at a stoplight?

 

[Capella]

He's not fishing at all, but that is an impressive Deion-esque backpedal.

 

[Peyton Marino]

I can't say I never text and drive.

I can't say that I only text and drive while at a stop light.

I TRY to only text as stop lights.

But it's a hard, stupid habit to break.

What I don't do is justify/rationalize it. I most likely WILL get into an accident as a direct result, unless I completely stop.

You've never been in an accident because of it, right? Well there you go.

absence of evidence does not imply evidence of absence, broham.

 

[jhib]

But the costs already are assumed if you cause

an accident. Just because an action may not be

illegal per se it doesn't excuse if your action was done with negligence to a duty and you caused damages to another.

I guess I'm pretty neutral on whether it should be

a civil traffic infraction like not wearing a seat belt. But the proof issues still bother me a bit.

Nobody is asking you to teach a 1L class onthis, Scalia. Just stop texting while you drive. You might kill somebody who has more sense

than you.

99% of the time I'm driving I'm not texting, Ginsburg.

Out of sheer curiosity, what are you textingduring that 1% of time, and would a phone call accomplish the same thing?

Mostly for work. Occasionally with buddies or my wife.Also, 99% of the time I'm doing it I'm on a flat, straight desert highway that I drive a half a dozen times per week.

And I'm really good at it.

It does seem like the texter on a flat, straight desert highway is engaging in less dangerous behavior than the hands-free phone talker in heavy traffic (or anywhere in NC, by the sound of it).

 

[Jayrok]

I passed 3 texters today......looking down at lap, drifting, incessant brake tapping. if i see a cop, can i alert them to what i've seen?

Pull over in front of one of them and tap your breaks til you feel contact. Then sit there holding your neck.

 

[Da Guru]

But the costs already are assumed if you cause

an accident. Just because an action may not be

illegal per se it doesn't excuse if your action was done with negligence to a duty and you caused damages to another.

I guess I'm pretty neutral on whether it should be

a civil traffic infraction like not wearing a seat belt. But the proof issues still bother me a bit.

Nobody is asking you to teach a 1L class onthis, Scalia. Just stop texting while you drive. You might kill somebody who has more sense

than you.

99% of the time I'm driving I'm not texting, Ginsburg.

Out of sheer curiosity, what are you textingduring that 1% of time, and would a phone call accomplish the same thing?

Mostly for work. Occasionally with buddies or my wife.Also, 99% of the time I'm doing it I'm on a flat, straight desert highway that I drive a half a dozen times per week.

And I'm really good at it.

It does seem like the texter on a flat, straight desert highway is engaging in less dangerous behavior than the hands-free phone talker in heavy traffic (or anywhere in NC, by the sound of it).

I can drive safely with a fifth of Jack in my belly on flat, straight desert highway.

 

[jhib]

But the costs already are assumed if you cause

an accident. Just because an action may not be

illegal per se it doesn't excuse if your action was done with negligence to a duty and you caused damages to another.

I guess I'm pretty neutral on whether it should be

a civil traffic infraction like not wearing a seat belt. But the proof issues still bother me a bit.

Nobody is asking you to teach a 1L class onthis, Scalia. Just stop texting while you drive. You might kill somebody who has more sense

than you.

99% of the time I'm driving I'm not texting, Ginsburg.

Out of sheer curiosity, what are you textingduring that 1% of time, and would a phone call accomplish the same thing?

Mostly for work. Occasionally with buddies or my wife.Also, 99% of the time I'm doing it I'm on a flat, straight desert highway that I drive a half a dozen times per week.

And I'm really good at it.

It does seem like the texter on a flat, straight desert highway is engaging in less dangerous behavior than the hands-free phone talker in heavy traffic (or anywhere in NC, by the sound of it).

I can drive safely with a fifth of Jack in my belly on flat, straight desert highway.

But nobody was asking why you don't just drink a beer while driving instead of the whiskey.

 

[Keerock]

I lie to my GPS all the time and tell it I'm a passenger...

 

[ShamrockPride]

I will read a text if one comes through, but I won't text unless I'm stopped.

 

[tonydead]

An argument could be made that the silly $100 ticket actually makes the situation worse. I get the feeling not very many people stop the practice because of it and trying to hide the phone and looking down at your lap is a lot more dangerous than just holding it up at windshield level.

 

[Quez]

I got in a wreck today counting texting drivers. I should of been paying more attention to the road.

 

[Dentist]

I only text and drive when I'm drunk, eating, and masturbating.

 

[Todem]

This thread has officially #### the bed.

LOL.

 

[Politician Spock]

This thread has officially #### the bed.

LOL.

I only #### the bed when I'm stopped at a stop light.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I passed 3 texters today......looking down at lap, drifting, incessant brake tapping. if i see a cop, can i alert them to what i've seen?

Sure, if you want to be a snitch.

Better to be a snitch than to end up in a ditch.

 

[Insein]

This thread has everything. We just need to tie aborton in here somewhere.

 

[Politician Spock]

Vote dog.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Vote dog.

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats texting together... mass hysteria.

 

[NCCommish]

Here's another problem I keep seeing pop up, at the risk of hijacking this thread: I am sick to death of people leaving small children and animals in locked vehicles in summer time. These people deserve to be beaten in the face with a crowbar to serve as a warning to others. If you're too busy to bring your kid/pet with you or to leave them with a responsible adult, then you're too busy to even think about having a child/pet, and should probably just sterilize yourselves to save us the trouble of potentially harming a child/pet because you're a moron.

This still happens?

Yup. Saw a post on my news feed as I was getting ready to go to sleep, and now I'm mad about it. I am dumbfounded about the thought process that makes people leave a kid in a hot car, because that makes absolutely no sense to me. Part of me wonders if we're just so narcissistic as a society that we think it won't happen to us, or if the nation's IQ has taken a beating to the point that the gene pool needs a healthy dose of chlorine.

Well to me this is age dependent. As a child I, and pretty much everyone I knew, was left in the car while parents went into stores. Heck we would ask to not go in. I spent hours sitting in parking lots horsing around in the car. Including summer time in Georgia. It was no biggie. We would meet new kids while we were hanging out. Now an infant is a different thing as is an animal.

 

[JohnnyU]

checkout this women in Massachusetts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-js5a6UTs

1 text averages 4.6 seconds with your eyes off the road and at 55 mph that is equal to 1 football field driving BLIND!! and that is just for 1 text.

 

[AAABatteries]

checkout this women in Massachusetts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-js5a6UTs

1 text averages 4.6 seconds with your eyes off the road and at 55 mph that is equal to 1 football field driving BLIND!! and that is just for 1 text.

God, what an idiot. That's not texting and driving, that's barely driving at all.

 

[Chemical X]

Here's another problem I keep seeing pop up, at the risk of hijacking this thread: I am sick to death of people leaving small children and animals in locked vehicles in summer time. These people deserve to be beaten in the face with a crowbar to serve as a warning to others. If you're too busy to bring your kid/pet with you or to leave them with a responsible adult, then you're too busy to even think about having a child/pet, and should probably just sterilize yourselves to save us the trouble of potentially harming a child/pet because you're a moron.

This still happens?

Yup. Saw a post on my news feed as I was getting ready to go to sleep, and now I'm mad about it. I am dumbfounded about the thought process that makes people leave a kid in a hot car, because that makes absolutely no sense to me. Part of me wonders if we're just so narcissistic as a society that we think it won't happen to us, or if the nation's IQ has taken a beating to the point that the gene pool needs a healthy dose of chlorine.

Well to me this is age dependent. As a child I, and pretty much everyone I knew, was left in the car while parents went into stores. Heck we would ask to not go in. I spent hours sitting in parking lots horsing around in the car. Including summer time in Georgia. It was no biggie. We would meet new kids while we were hanging out. Now an infant is a different thing as is an animal.

interesting enough, most places it is a crime to break a window to free an animal, but not a child.

 

[bentley]

40% of workplace fatalities are transportation related. Distracted driving is the single leading cause of those accidents. People need to stop being #######s and cut it out.

On the bright side, it gives me a lot of opportunities to be on the TV and radio talking about what a problem it is.

Here's the BLS data showing the 40%. Where can I see the distracted driving break down of this?

From our own claims data. Don't have anything published I can point to.I get all of our fatality reports, and much of the time it's some innocent guy driving who gets run into because some jerk on a phone crosses the center lane or runs a light.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Doing it at the light doesn't make it any better, especially when it's one of those left turns that only stays green for like eight seconds, and despite being the 4th car, you miss the light cause the first person in line was some ##### who was too busy texting and didn't realize that he had the light until it was already yellow.

 

[comfortably numb]

Doing it at the light doesn't make it any better, especially when it's one of those left turns that only stays green for like eight seconds, and despite being the 4th car, you miss the light cause the first person in line was some ##### who was too busy texting and didn't realize that he had the light until it was already yellow.

My bad

 

[NCCommish]

Here's another problem I keep seeing pop up, at the risk of hijacking this thread: I am sick to death of people leaving small children and animals in locked vehicles in summer time. These people deserve to be beaten in the face with a crowbar to serve as a warning to others. If you're too busy to bring your kid/pet with you or to leave them with a responsible adult, then you're too busy to even think about having a child/pet, and should probably just sterilize yourselves to save us the trouble of potentially harming a child/pet because you're a moron.

This still happens?

Yup. Saw a post on my news feed as I was getting ready to go to sleep, and now I'm mad about it. I am dumbfounded about the thought process that makes people leave a kid in a hot car, because that makes absolutely no sense to me. Part of me wonders if we're just so narcissistic as a society that we think it won't happen to us, or if the nation's IQ has taken a beating to the point that the gene pool needs a healthy dose of chlorine.

Well to me this is age dependent. As a child I, and pretty much everyone I knew, was left in the car while parents went into stores. Heck we would ask to not go in. I spent hours sitting in parking lots horsing around in the car. Including summer time in Georgia. It was no biggie. We would meet new kids while we were hanging out. Now an infant is a different thing as is an animal.

interesting enough, most places it is a crime to break a window to free an animal, but not a child.

Well that's not good.

 

[tommyboy]

Put your phone away, numbskulls

 

[NCCommish]

checkout this women in Massachusetts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-js5a6UTs

1 text averages 4.6 seconds with your eyes off the road and at 55 mph that is equal to 1 football field driving BLIND!! and that is just for 1 text.

I see this several times a week. It's so obvious. And it is against the law here but the enforcement is pretty lax. Although since you see cops on their cell phones and computers in their cars not sure they have the moral high ground and may look the other way a bit. Until it leads to an accident then everyone is very much about it.

 

[flapgreen]

it's bad. I'm guilty at stop lights.

we need to either move to driverless cars quickly or get rid of automatic transmission.

try texting while driving and shifting.. that's not going to happen without you dying off pretty quickly (other than the freeway i suppose)

I do at stoplights

 

[flapgreen]

Doing it at the light doesn't make it any better, especially when it's one of those left turns that only stays green for like eight seconds, and despite being the 4th car, you miss the light cause the first person in line was some ##### who was too busy texting and didn't realize that he had the light until it was already yellow.

I wouldn't say it's a good thing but texting sitting still at a light is obviously not same as cruising 70 down the highway

 

[flapgreen]

Whoa. I didn't realize where this thread had gone. Please disregard

 

[shuke]

Some ##### in front of me today, stopped at a light, was texting, and her car started rolling back towards mine. I had to lay on the horn for her to look up and brake.

 

[flapgreen]

Dang lol

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Some ##### in front of me today, stopped at a light, was texting, and her car started rolling back towards mine. I had to lay on the horn for her to look up and brake.

Moves like those don't show up on the stat sheet.

 

[Zow]

Some ##### in front of me today, stopped at a light, was texting, and her car started rolling back towards mine. I had to lay on the horn for her to look up and brake.

Sounds like you were right on her ###. Don't tailgate.

 

[chauncey]

This thread has everything. We just need to tie aborton in here somewhere.

This + sharp right turn + This = Possible Abortion

 

[Ash]

I text at the lights, if I can't finish the text before it turns green I put it down.

This, and I make phone calls with voice commands.

I drive a lot in my job, it helps a lot to be able to get this kind of stuff out of the way in time that would otherwise be wasted.

 

[Ash]

I only text and drive when I'm drunk, eating, and masturbating.

I would pay $$ for your secret, I can only get two of those done at once.

 

[Apple Jack]

A light night as I only witnessed 11 text-related accidents while sleeping. One of them took place on a super awesome oversized Godzilla-sized lizards tail which was like an autobahn type highway only everybody was driving cars from Once Upon a Time in America and you would skid to stops only there was no sound from the skid and there were these super deep walls down both sides which made focusing on where you were going very important and the steering is already sketchy enough in those things not to mention the skidding!!! C'mon people.

 

[Ned]

Some ##### in front of me today, stopped at a light, was texting, and her car started rolling back towards mine. I had to lay on the horn for her to look up and brake.

Last night I was behind a minivan that kept veering halfway into the shoulder. I figured she was texting until I noticed her chewing. We got to a stop light and I could see her eating a ####### salad. Of course she gave me a dirty look when I blew my horn while she sat there eating her dinner when the light had already turned green.

 

[SWC]

A light night as I only witnessed 11 text-related accidents while sleeping. One of them took place on a super awesome oversized Godzilla-sized lizards tail which was like an autobahn type highway only everybody was driving cars from Once Upon a Time in America and you would skid to stops only there was no sound from the skid and there were these super deep walls down both sides which made focusing on where you were going very important and the steering is already sketchy enough in those things not to mention the skidding!!! C'mon people.

so this is sort of your confederate flag huh keep trying maybe it will get funny sooner or later bromigo

 

[Apple Jack]

A light night as I only witnessed 11 text-related accidents while sleeping. One of them took place on a super awesome oversized Godzilla-sized lizards tail which was like an autobahn type highway only everybody was driving cars from Once Upon a Time in America and you would skid to stops only there was no sound from the skid and there were these super deep walls down both sides which made focusing on where you were going very important and the steering is already sketchy enough in those things not to mention the skidding!!! C'mon people.

so this is sort of your confederate flag huh keep trying maybe it will get funny sooner or later bromigo

my what?

and are yo uactually attempting to give somebody #### for beating a bit into the ground?

 

[Politician Spock]

Some ##### in front of me today, stopped at a light, was texting, and her car started rolling back towards mine. I had to lay on the horn for her to look up and brake.

Horns are antiquated. You should have texted her.

 

[Peyton Marino]

A light night as I only witnessed 11 text-related accidents while sleeping. One of them took place on a super awesome oversized Godzilla-sized lizards tail which was like an autobahn type highway only everybody was driving cars from Once Upon a Time in America and you would skid to stops only there was no sound from the skid and there were these super deep walls down both sides which made focusing on where you were going very important and the steering is already sketchy enough in those things not to mention the skidding!!! C'mon people.

we get it man.

 

[Jack White]

Recently, I was holding a pint of IPA in one hand, texting with the other, and driving with my knee.

I made it safely to my destination, without incident.

No victim, no crime.