OT: Allow mobile phones when driving? Or ban the disabled from driving?

So you can grass people off? Get a life.

But then you don't get the fun of going 50mph faster than everyone else.

The part of your brain that eats, the part that communicates, and the part that drives, are nothing to do with each other and can all operate independantly. I can even have a verbal conversation with someone while typing a completely different one.

I was once stuck behind two women driving 70 in a 70 (I wanted to go 100). They had their own cars, side by side, windows down, chatting to each other!

Plenty folk have done that without using a phone. Some folk are just unobservant.

I would have thought about 50% of people would be brave enough when they saw a life in danger.

That joke is meant to include a plane.

You've missed the point. We should allow people on the road if they're safe. If those one armed men can drive safely, then so can I using a phone.

Causing congestion.

In the UK it's technically illegal to use your phone while at a fast food joint, even to pay. Since you're in a car with the engine running! Sometimes the law is just beyond a joke.

Only if you spill the coffee.

I managed to text at 90mph with a broken arm. You just type one letter, glance out the window, type another letter, and so on.

Tech support even hands free is asking for trouble.

If you're talking about the muscle parts that drive, yes, and even if you include eys and ears probably, but deciding what to do with that information is thinking. So is communicating and I don't think anyone can think about two topics at once. I've tried for decades to think about two things at once, and I can't do it.

Maybe you're a rarity, or maybe you ignore the other person for short periods of time.

who is 'we'?

its about 2000 a year in the uk, 30,000 in the USA and still falling

No, we found that out.

Germany has a higher death rate than we do

Most RTA deaths occur in towns or minor roads anyway

Best one I ever saw was a guy who could roll a perfect spliff while driving along at 60mph

No, you're not on the Public Highway

This chart for the US says other wise.

In 2017,18,19 it was over 35,000 deaths in the US.

The real solution is to round up and exterminate Lefists.

Maybe so, but the other 50% is still a lot!

Road traffic laws were extended many years ago to private land that the public have access to - specifically to deal with young drivers showing off on retail park and supermarket car parks, when they were closed at night. This does mean that using your phone to pay at a drive-through does open you up to a fine and points. Although it is highly unlikely that the police will do that.

You'd have to be pretty thick not to be able to do two things at the same time. Try talking to him while he's brushing his teeth and see if he swallows the brush.