Texting and Driving, Do you do it? Why?

[Quagga]

Easy there Tiger.. No need to get your hair up. You'll notice I said or or or.... Yet you find a way to come up with holier than thou statements like "don't justify your choices".

 

I accept calls on my handsfree and that requires pressing an answer button on my phone. 99% of people (except for your holiness) do that... That was all I was getting at...

Most cars that has BT has a botton on the radio or the steering wheel so my phone does not even leave my pocket when I get in my car.

[Quagga]

Dude..I said.. Skipping a song on a dashboard mounted phone... Not changing station on the radio... My point is that there are levels of phone interaction. I use my phone to listen to podcasts and music while I'm driving. During that process I skip songs and stories.

 

It all goes back to the comment that I said that everyone interacts with their phones at some level while driving and I got lambasted by a person saying not everyone does...I was generalising.. Most people do. I agree typing and reading texts is not on. Receiving and making calls is also distracting but less so.

This requires you to look at the phone, and make sure you touch the correct area on the phone. 

 

On my car radio I can skipp a song without looking at the radio. I know where the button and know how it feels, and there are a lot of us esp cyclists who DOES NOT TOUCH their phones in their cars as they know what can happen. They are also the same people (the group I normally ride with ) who will stop at red lights and stop streets. 

 

We have all decided that, just because others do it does NOT mean we can / should do it. 

 

With that logic I can say just because someone else gets drunk and hits his partner it is ok for me you to do it? 

[Quagga]

How about this?

 

We all agree that focusing solely on driving is the best option.

 

Any distraction increases the risk of being in an accident.

 

Be aware that any distraction will increase your risk of being in an accident.

 

The risk is not just to you but to anyone near your 100kph 1,800kg car.

 

80kg of flesh doesn't fare well when interacting with 1,800kg of car.

 

Basically as should be the norm in the world: Don't be a d!ck.

 

Repeating the words "Don't be a d!ck" to yourself at all times will help you decide what the right course of action is in any given situation.

 

I commute to work I have personally experienced what happens to a cyclist when a driver does not put DRIVING 1st.

 

The reason for the poll was to find out if cyclist do this, as I see so many with "Wider of the Rider " sticker that is so busy texting that they don't give me(commuting) the WIDER they advocate.

 

just yesterday again, a female driver pasted me within the 1.2 m range=====WHY ? She is on her damn phone with a BIG yellow Wider sticker on the back. 

So these people want cars to give them more road when they cycle but when they are in their cars they don't adhere to "Don't be a d!ck" 

[Quagga]

If this was not a serious topic it could be quite funny...despite all the tech improvements simple functions while driving have not really changed much, you humans are distracted so easily.

 

Remember the days when driving a car and the cassette tape got chewed up or the radio station reception required some fine manual tuning via a knob on the radio.

 

And you had to reach into the cubby hole or under the seat for that box of cassettes.....

A very good friend of our family died doing exactly that.

[Stretch]

 

 

This requires you to look at the phone, and make sure you touch the correct area on the phone.

 

 

Not really... Just a one finger slide across the screen when the player is in maximised mode

[Quagga]

Not really... Just a one finger slide across the screen when the player is in maximised mode

Not all phones work like that unfortunately.....

[Patchelicious]

Not really... Just a one finger slide across the screen when the player is in maximised mode

 

 

Not all phones work like that unfortunately.....

 

I think both of you guys are smart enough to know the difference between texting while driving and changing a song. But I suppose all threads get to a point where people argue just to be right.

 

If you need a list of which phones are ok and an instruction manual on how to change a song, maybe you shouldn't be allowed to operate a car.

[Quagga]

I think both of you guys are smart enough to know the difference between texting while driving and changing a song. But I suppose all threads get to a point where people argue just to be right.

 

If you need a list of which phones are ok and an instruction manual on how to change a song, maybe you shouldn't be allowed to operate a car.

Sorry, I should not have fed the trol :-(

[Escapee..]

I spoke to a buddy that drives highway daily.

 

He says he watches Youtube videos when its bumper to bumper traffic and they crawling forward.

 

According to him he still watches the road and his vehicle has "City stop" Function. Sensors scan the road ahead and if collision is detected the vehicle will actually come to stop even if you dont brake.

 

He isnt going to stop doing it

[Shebeen]

I'm sorry Bartali, but there simply are no get out of jail free cards here. You can try to convince yourself, and likely succeed, that CBlake is being honest and transparent etc. But you, and folks who share your worldview, will be the only ones who take yourselves serious on this.

 

As for me, there is zero mitigating factor that will ever make it okay to use your cellular phone while sharing the road.

 

 

I 100% disagree with this. 

 

If it was clarified what is meant by "use your cellular phone", then we could take it further.

[Quagga]

I 100% disagree with this. 

 

If it was clarified what is meant by "use your cellular phone", then we could take it further.

It has been clarified in the Road rules. Maybe go and read it sometime

[Odinson]

It has been clarified in the Road rules. Maybe go and read it sometime

 

What "road rules"? 

[Quagga]

What "road rules"? 

Do you seriously want me to post where they explain what is meant by  "use your cellular phone"

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

I 100% disagree with this.

 

If it was clarified what is meant by "use your cellular phone", then we could take it further.

Direct interaction with, whether just touching or interacting it's actual body.

 

Doesn't cover bloutand or using steering wheel / radio controls to interact.

 

As far as I know, just watching it (like Escapee's friend) isn't strictly against the law, but it's bloody stupid. But then you could probably get done for driving dangerously.

[Odinson]

Do you seriously want me to post where they explain what is meant by  "use your cellular phone"

 

Yes. 

[Quagga]

Yes. 

CptMayhem just did it for you

but surely you can use google?

 

Edit:

 

Here you go

Prohibition on use of communication device while driving

1) No person shall drive a vehicle on a public road -

(a) while holding a cellular or mobile telephone or any other communication device in one or both hands or with any other part of the body;

(b) while using or operating a cellular or mobile telephone or other communication device unless such a cellular or mobile telephone or other communication device is affixed to the vehicle or is part of the fixture in the vehicle and remains so affixed while being used or operated, or is specially adapted or designed to be affixed to the person of the driver as headgear, and is so used, to enable such driver to use or operate such telephone or communication device without holding it in the manner contemplated in paragraph (a), and remains so affixed while being used or operated.