News Flash !
Smartphones ( stupid phones ??
) ....are / will be a thing of the past ! You'll be going to Google Glass .....so I guess you'll have glasses on with a little screen in the corner ....of course your eyeballs will be sore from looking over to the corner all the time . Wowie Zowie , can't wait .
Ha Ha , I don't even have a cell phone yet , no Texter machine thing either . Like I'm OLD FASHIONED !
...Thank goodness . Think I'll pass on the glasses too .
T
I'm waiting for the chip they will implant in the brain.
Groan.
Imagine how scratched and damaged they will get in everyday use in the workshop and on building sites.
Pass.
Mark
No thanks. It's bad enough with people running around and driving with cellphones welded to their ears.
In the Kingdom of the Idiots, the guy without a constant distraction is King.
I agree MM , it boggles the mind trying to visualize the chaos on the highways ...there are enough distractions now .
T
Through all the years I drove with all the drunks on the road, I was never as frightened as I am now with all the "Personal Electronic Device" BORG
operating (
barely ) motor vehicles !!
T, I like the
( "A closed mouth gathers no foot" ) signature.
Glad you like it Pete .......not my genius , I save a lot of stuff I like that others have sent me ........can't remember who sent this , might have been a politician since they don't like to take their own advice
T
They need to put motion sensors in cell phones that would prevent texting while moving. Something needs to be done. We had a girl killed on the highway in front of us. She was a young mother, and the girl that hit her car head on was texting. She had been fined for reckless operation after a wreck 2 weeks prior.
She was texting then too. This time in addition to reckless operation, she will face vehicular homicide and could get 10 years. None of that will bring the young child's mother back.
I don't know how we grew up without cell phones. They are nice to have in an emergency when traveling but that is the only thing I would use one for and the car is always parked before I talk, and I have texting blocked. I can talk faster than I can type.
Charlie
One thing I can not figure out about drivers using their cell phones,why in the hell are they looking down instead of out the windsheild.Several years ago we had a young man talking on his cell phone to his sister on US131 and he drove at speed into the back of a stopped firetruck with all its lights flashing.
The last thing his sister heard was him dieing.
Catt Wrote:The last thing his sister heard was him dieing.
I have to wonder now if every time she answers her phone, the sound of that fatal impact comes back to her.
What a horrible thing to leave your sister with.
Just before I got out of the car business a year ago , I waited on a middle aged man ...he was in a very glum mood .
He said " I have to replace my Cavalier , but I'm looking for mini van " ....then almost immediately " my daughter wrecked it last week "
I remembered an article about a Cavalier crossing the center line and hitting a transport . There was a fatality reported but no details .
" Was she the girl that hit the truck ? " I asked , quietly
He nodded
This is when you don't know what to say ......." I'm sorry for your loss " about covers it under the circumstances .
Then he looked at me a said ..." It was her own fault , she was texting " ....
I was stunned to say the least .....can't imagine how he felt about what a waste it all was .
T
Catt Wrote:One thing I can not figure out about drivers using their cell phones,why in the hell are they looking down instead of out the windsheild.Several years ago we had a young man talking on his cell phone to his sister on US131 and he drove at speed into the back of a stopped firetruck with all its lights flashing.
The last thing his sister heard was him dieing.
I guess it's been several years, but my wife and I stayed at a bed and breakfast up in New York state on the old Erie mainline and I noticed a NS loco sitting on one of the two main tracks, I noticed some pilot damage. Propriortor of the B&B told me there had been a fatal crossing accident the day before. Someone driving across the tracks was on their cellphone talking to his brother. Didn't hear the horns or notice ther flashing lights, seems impossible. Last thing his brother heard was the impact. Then nothing. That has to be horrible. I share the feelings of some others here, can't understand the need to be in touch constantly. Perhaps because I'm 60 and many of my friends here are in that range as well? A damn shame is all I can say. I don't know anything about this google glasses, I think I prefer it that way.
Hello to all, I don't visit often but think of you all none the less.
It sounds awful, but its natural selection.
People are dumb and put themselves into these situations because they think they can do a thousand things in the car. they're not even important.
Its not going to change until enough people die because of it, or our culture changes. to bad they can't put cell phone scramblers in cars the way they put breathalizers in cars for those guilty of repeated DUIs.
Pass it on to all your texting friends!
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