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So Where's the Outrage??
Ray B
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Distracted Related Traffic Fatalities (Cell Phone/Texting While Driving) averages 9 deaths per day in the US, or the equivalent of a small "mass shooting" every day. It's against the law to use a phone/text while driving, just as it is against the law to use a firearm to kill someone; but I don't see the effort to curb these deaths that is being put into the much less frequent firearms related deaths.
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You make a very good point and the news media should be all over it, but its just not as exciting as a kiddie school getting shot up.
Technology exists that would cause phones to stop working when on the move. Trucking companies use it with their Qualcomm systems, once the vehicle is moving the screen locks. The same can be done with cell phones with GPS in them.
Drinking and driving kills more people every years then guns ever will but yet for a non-right, driving has more protections than gun ownership. Under the Total Freedom people want many states have outlawed DUI checks making it even harder to catch impaired drivers.
Driving an auto is not a right but you are more free to drive than own a gun. Our highways will continue to be the largest killer in the US and very little will be done to make the highways safer, driving is more important than owning a gun.
Tell me why a Constitutionally protected item such as a M-16 is much much harder to get than a 200MPH sports car? Why is a 200 MPH sports car even legal?!?! Ohh wait, I forgot, driving is more important, don't want to violate that non-right now do we!!!!!
Most of those deaths are caused by younger drivers...and the libs don't want to anger that voting block!
You make a very good point and the news media should be all over it, but its just not as exciting as a kiddie school getting shot up.
A new study says adult text and drive more than teens.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2260114288001/surprising-study-on-texting-while-driving/
quote:Originally posted by CS8161
Most of those deaths are caused by younger drivers...and the libs don't want to anger that voting block!
You make a very good point and the news media should be all over it, but its just not as exciting as a kiddie school getting shot up.
A new study says adult text and drive more than teens.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2260114288001/surprising-study-on-texting-while-driving/
I saw this the other day and wasn't surprised much.
This is a pet peeve of mine, but it seems the only thing that gets the ire up here is a death by drunk.
I figure if a members child or wife was killed by a texting driver, it is looked upon as an accident, whereas the drunk driver is a killer.
I see them both the same way. Reality that happens from poor judgment IMO.
I have said several times that I prefer to drive around 'drunks' as I know what to look out for.
This texting and smart phone crap is out of control.[xx(]
Might be my imagination, but it seems see more and more red light crashing makes sense texting not paying attention could be the root
Distracted Related Traffic Fatalities (Cell Phone/Texting While Driving) averages 9 deaths per day in the US, or the equivalent of a small "mass shooting" every day. It's against the law to use a phone/text while driving, just as it is against the law to use a firearm to kill someone; but I don't see the effort to curb these deaths that is being put into the much less frequent firearms related deaths.
Mass shootings are like plane crashes, even though it's much safer to fly then to drive a car, when there is a plane crash, so many people die in one accident at one time, then everyone goes nuts, same with shootings, people are killing each other everyday, but when 20+ people die in one incident, that's where the problem comes from!
Distracted Related Traffic Fatalities (Cell Phone/Texting While Driving) averages 9 deaths per day in the US, or the equivalent of a small "mass shooting" every day. It's against the law to use a phone/text while driving, just as it is against the law to use a firearm to kill someone; but I don't see the effort to curb these deaths that is being put into the much less frequent firearms related deaths.
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Not distracted driving, to be sure. But it still left five dead.
An 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in a southern Nevada crash early Saturday that killed five members of a California family and injured the suspect and three others.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/30/5-killed-4-critical-in-nevada-traffic-crash/?test=latestnews#ixzz2P59meI7v
A safety training instructor pointed out tha hands free really does not offer any less distraction. In most cases it allow the driver to try to do 3 things at once instead of just 2. Eg. drive, talk and change the radio station. While we think we can do 2 things at once reasearch shows that the brain does not process driving and talking at the same time but rapidly switches back and forth.
My uncle was hit while riding his bike(harley) a couple years back. The other driver was busy talking on the phone (at the stop sign) and pulled out in front of him..........
Most built in GPS will not allow you to operate/program them while the vehicle is moving. We may see that come to built in phone systems too..or maybe a system that cuts off texting ability when a certain speed is reached. The gps capability of most phones would allow for this.
One thing that is probably lowering the accident rate of distracted driving is the rumble strips they now have on the roads. If not for them the accident rates would probably be much higher.
I was at a stop light today. I glanced over and a gal was messing around with an I pod, ear phones in (illegal) etc. She started rolling backwards totally oblivious to the guy behind her blaring his horn Boom!
It was low impact but none the less, it was flat ground foot off the break, stopped, not paying attention. and it still lead to a fender bender.