This chart for the US says other wise.
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In 2017,18,19 it was over 35,000 deaths in the US.
OT: Allow mobile phones when driving? Or ban the disabled from driving?
Jul 16, 2021
Last reply: 5 years ago
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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.
Quite. I noticed this in the early days of mobiles - about 1990 - when being driven by a pal. He went through a red light while on his phone, and made other errors. Some are more affected than others, though.
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.
So we're relying on the common sense of the police. This will not end well.
There was no need for that, surely there's already a law of driving your car onto a private piece of land without permission? And of vandalising it? Assuming they did harm. If they didn't, then who cares?
Adolf was the best leader we ever had. You really like all these religious nutters around do you?
Only if you have half a brain.
What I'm complaining about is getting done for holding a phone and talking on it. That clearly is not a distraction, you're still looking straight ahead.
The last time I saw that, it took 10 minutes for someone to get the f****ng thing to work. Bluetooth might work in your house, but not in a car full of interference.
Seeing is very important for driving, unless you have a very fast guide dog. But you really don't need two arms.
The brain cannot process everything in the scene, but it can select important things, it goes by changes. Something moves unexpectedly, you immediately think "is that gonna hit me?"
I can concentrate on more than one thing, anyway things like driving are done mainly subconsciously, which can very quickly interrupt any conscious thing like a conversation on a phone.
Why are you even thinking about dangers? Your brain automatically spots movement. Let your subconscious warn you that person X has moved, so you react to that, not the one you predicted would.
We also don't want them doing it while sat in a petrol station after having filled up while there's a queue behind them.
And as for good looking, I prefer to see their skin than some paint.
Then get yourself a decent car. A decent maker would check the bluetooth works before offering it as a feature.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
How many things do you think you're doing at the same time just driving?
Another pointless invention.
Not so, I drove my manual with a broken arm, I just didn't change gear while steering.
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