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agree. my wife and i both have our phones set this way. i feel like i have some self control, but it's just easier not to even have it cross your mind if all alerts are disabled when behind the wheel.
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Driving is a privilege but we treat it as a right.
Drive drunk and get caught? Hit someone while texting? You get to use Uber or Lyft for the rest of your life. Yes, I know that will lead to more people driving without a license.
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Here's an image of approximately where the cyclist was struck, heading south on 12th Avenue at Belmont Drive: https://goo.gl/maps/715aMFyUpuTffHc59.
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Holy Cow! Nutjob driver was doing 55 mph on that secondary road? Unreal.
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https://www.thegazette.com/crashes/t...drew-pavlovec/ "Kron said that around 5:58 a.m. April 6, the driver was southbound in the 2400 block of 12th Avenue in Coralville when she hit Pavlovec from behind. Pavlovec was in the traffic lane and using both a headlight and taillight, Kron said."
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
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This is exactly how my best friend, Robin Ames, was killed while riding last year. Struck from behind by a distracted driver using her phone. He had a varia, it was daytime, and it was a straight stretch of road. None of it mattered.
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In other words, probably 40 days behind jail for taking that little girls life and destroying the life of that family. |
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I do the same - and agree with with this statement.
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I disagree with your argument about speed being biggest risk factor...I think distraction is WAY more dangerous than speed. But that's just my opinion. |
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I recently read "A Deadly Wandering". It interweaves the story of a double fatality car crash caused by a texting driver, with what the research teaches us about human attention. Great book. Phones should be banned in vehicles, period, IMO.
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The big tech firms believe the solution is self-driving cars. Unfortunately, the technology that is drawing the drivers attention away from the road is advancing faster than the technology that would allow the driver not to have to pay attention to the road.
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16-year-old driver who killed cyclist was speeding & using social media
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Will there ever be self-driving brodozers with push-button coal-rolling capability? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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