Thursday, August 24, 2006
On the cell phone while driving
Isn't this taking a good joke too far? In this picture, he's stopped the vehicle, but a few seconds before, this guy was driving that thing on the construction site along the edge of a busy street, using one hand while holding his cell phone with the other.
In this next picture, he's driven back into the excavation pit, which obscures the massive tank treads. But it gives you some idea of the vehicle's size. And, to be clear, moments earlier, while I fumbled to get my camera out, he was driving that one handed on the sidewalk.
When are we going to stop to the madness?
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It gets worse. Some governments are making laws against driving and talking on your cell phone about the same time the Blackberry is gaining popularity.
I heard a news report that it's not so much the holding of the cell phone as it is the talking on the phone while driving that interferes with one's driving. So, driving while using an earphone thingy to talk on your cell phone is just as bad as holding the phone in your hand.
Just wanted to share that little detail.
(but I agree -- we need to stop the madness!)
Just wanted to share that little detail.
(but I agree -- we need to stop the madness!)
I read someplace that your reaction time to a traffice problem if you are on a cell phone is equal to a few stiff drinks.
If it's the talking that's the problem and not the one-handed driving, then what about talking to someone who's in the car?
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yyzrs - affirmative
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yyzrs - affirmative
It's got to be a combination of the talking and the one-handed driving. But I do think talking on the phone is different mentally -- the process of visualizing a person on the other end of the line is a mental distraction you don't have while talking to someone in the car. Unless "someone" is an unruly kid in the back and the driver is half turning around and saying "stop it, or I'm gonna smack you!"
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