Re: Use of a mobile while colliding with pedestrian

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:26:02 -0000, nospam <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Peter Hucker" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Then you are foolish. There is no doubt that talking on a phone increases
your chances of having a crash, 4 times as likely according to the TV show I
just watched.

What a load of tosh. Your brain assigns priority to the driving.

or perhaps it assigns it to the conversation, how the hell do you know what
priorities other people assign to their brains?

Anyone with an ounce of common sense assigns priority to the dangerous thing. For example if you were about to fall off a cliff, would you continue your conversation on a phone?!?

If you see something dangerous up ahead, you simply stop the conversation, and (if it's not a hands free) drop the phone.

The problem is *not* seeing (or predicting) something dangerous up ahead
because you were paying too much attention to the telephone conversation.

Yes.... I stare at my phone while talking and can't see the road ahead. A phone is an audio system!

Every study on the subject has show holding a telephone conversation
significantly reduces the ability to drive safely (and that it has sod all
to do with the mechanics of holding a phone).

So why are we arrested for using a non-hands-free only?

And why are we not arrested for talking to our spouse in the passenger seat?

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