good start: 87/93 vehicles cited for cell phone use!

[Louis]

Originally Posted by nesteel

How many of you people eat while driving? Change radio stations? Adjust your heater/ac controls................

They've done studies of the "degree of distraction / impairment" for this sort of stuff and phone conversations were on par with drunk driving, and way worse than changing from your favorite Classic Rock station to the All Disco All the Time station.

[alterergo]

Originally Posted by nesteel

Change radio stations? Adjust your heater/ac controls................

Aren't car design teams spending million of dollars and many hours to make those things as unobtrusive to driver as possible? Yes, it takes some of your attention to perform those tasks, but to say that every single driver is always 100% focused on defensive safe driving is absolutely unrealistic.

[erslah]

It's worse than we thought:

http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/...ter_being.html

--Eric


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[Louis]

Originally Posted by erslah

It's worse than we thought:

http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/...ter_being.html

Was she deaf? Those train horns are usually pretty loud.

[PacNW2Ford]

The Oregonian incident happened at an intersection I use all of the time, not only is it a railroad crossing, the rails go through a four-way intersection. It is unbelievable that someone would walk through there looking at a phone. Reminds me of another incident where I saw a person on the phone walk in front of a fire vehicle with lights and siren going, completely oblivious to the truck and the driver's attempt to get her attention.