Thread: YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE...

Originally Posted by JMS

Is it different when you talk to your passenger?

Nope. Both will distract a driver.

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Originally Posted by JMS

Is it different when you talk to your passenger?

What's different for me about talking to the passenger is that the wife's always there to yell at me if I'm weaving out of my lane or not stopping when I should be.

What about children in cars? Is that different?

Originally Posted by loueedacat

agree 100%. we had a bad commuter line crash because the driver was talking on her cell and hit the gas pedal instead of the break when approaching another train. She's dead now.

I don't think it's safe to talk on the cell, handsfree or not while driving. When driving you should have your mind on the road.

Let me capture the logic, because someone was talking on a cell phone it short circuited her brain and she hit the gas instead of the brake..... RIIIIIIIIGHT! Let's all believe everything that people have an axe to grind writes down, like "The earth is flat".


Richard

Everything in the car is considered a distraction. Last year we actually had a project to quantify distractions in the car here at Liberty Mutual (Research Center). The project is finished, that I know, but I don't know what the outcome was, or if it has even been published.

Also, there is a project MIT started a few years ago where you get a device implanted in your tooth. What happens is when you want to listen to something, it vibrates on a molecular level. The vibrations in the jaw make you think you're listening to something through your ears. The idea was to use it as a way to replace headphones for mp3 players. Not sure what happened to the project. Might have been spurned due to the fear of induced schizophrenia.

Originally Posted by JMS

What about children in cars? Is that different?

slapping the kids if definitely a distraction

this one is better

GW!!! How you been man? What a coincidence, I come back a couple days ago, and here you are.

Matt

Originally Posted by mhailey

HOWEVER, I can't stand it when people just walk around with those things in theirs ear,

I'll do you one better.
My company had some Americans over from corporate HQ to visit.
So I am in the bathroom, using a urinal, minding my own business, and one of the Americans comes to stand next to me and starts to have a whole conversation using the hands-free earpiece...

Originally Posted by foundlingofdollar

I think it's a little misguided. While not using the hands is a part of the risk with driving, the biggest risk is the distraction of holding a conversation. Plus this does nothing about the new added risk of people texting/reading e-mail while driving. Anyways, so many BT headsets are junk, if you must, stick with a good wired headset.

Actually, studies have shown that picking up or putting down is the most dangerous. Especially putting down the phone. At that moment the mind is totally distracted and there is a higher risk of accidents.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I'll do you one better.
My company had some Americans over from corporate HQ to visit.
So I am in the bathroom, using a urinal, minding my own business, and one of the Americans comes to stand next to me and starts to have a whole conversation using the hands-free earpiece...

Don't you just love modern technology!
Allowing one to do the things that his grandpa would've slapped him upside the head for doing!