http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windso...lice-1.4572475 This needs to be implemented everywhere.
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Great post and excellent reminder. I use the cell phone 7 days a week. Got hands free but still distracted having to look at it on a phone mount to see who is calling. The greatest fear while riding in the car coming towards me texting. No cell phone mount on the bike. I got to stop using it in the van. Thanks for posting this.
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People have hard time walking and texting. What makes them think they can drive and text (safely)
In California it's illegal now to just handle your phone. No talk, no text. But people do it wide open and don't even try to conceal. This report doesn't surprise me at all, the number of drivers using their phones.
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This happened a few years ago, but caught on video.
https://youtu.be/dCHdZxO4_tQ
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/articl2005 Silverado Midnight Star
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I drive a ‘large car’ in the SE Texas area and I can see down inside vehicles easy enough. This is all too common. Everyone has their phone in their hand or lap ready for that next message to answer.
More, and more, truck drivers are getting just as bad. Weaving all over the road and driving slower than the traffic is a dead giveaway to me.
When I pass I’ll blow my horn and gesture they need to put that damn phone down and drive.
People. Stay off the phone, or we’re all gonna die.
Me: Old, but not obsolete.
The bike: Timeless.
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Yup.
Most of the time, especially with cagers, I’ll just stick my hand out the window and mimic texting with my thumb. They know what I’m implying.
Hopefully, a cop following will get the message and do something about it, but they are to busy texting, too, to notice.
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The bike: Timeless.
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So we can’t text but the police can type in their laptop? I don’t see a difference myself. I agree texting is distracting and I do not do it. Here they sometimes park a police car like a speed trap, you pass it and think it’s all clear but the real radar car is further up the road where everybody gets caught speeding back up.
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I see cops talking on cell phone while driving, but they are "Privledged", they have so called been trained to be able to drive, talk on the cell phone and listen to their radios all at the same time?
Give me a break.....
San Antonio cops ONLY will give tickets if they see them stopped at a light texting2005 Silverado Midnight Star
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It’s totally out of control and I don’t see how human habits can be reversed.
Insurance companies need to start increasing policy holder’s rates that are caught texting and prosecutors need to go after phone records of offenders that have caused bodily injury or property damage and throw their ass in jail, and tack on heavy fines as it’s no different than dealing with impaired (drunk) driving on our public roads.
I thought driving was a privilege, and not a right, but it’s getting that way.
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Geez, remember when we would have to get home to make phone calls? Or listen to the answering machine? I say, get rid of ALL small cell phones and go back to the brick sized ones when this all started. Pretty friggin hard to use one of them old ones with the antenna out the window,,,"Do or do not, there is no try."
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They cant even get people to stop useing car pool lanes and Handicap Parking spaces! And those are with $300 to $500 fines. Sooner or later someone is going to figure out that you cant stop STUPID. You CAN; however, punish them far more severely. Like taking away DL's, mandatory jail time for DUI, and that type of thing. I'm not a big fan of "police state" mentality, but I really hate the "I can do what I want if I have the money" self centered attitude.Gerry
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Originally posted by twowheeltherapy View PostPeople have hard time walking and texting. What makes them think they can drive and text (safely)
In California it's illegal now to just handle your phone. No talk, no text. But people do it wide open and don't even try to conceal. This report doesn't surprise me at all, the number of drivers using their phones.
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