Study: Drivers on Cells Clogging Traffic

[Letum]

"not even doing the speed limit"?
You know the speed limit is the maximum speed, not the minimum? :rotfl:

[Q3ark]

Not only are thay slower, thay are most likely to cause/be involved in an accident. A recent study here in the UK has shown that reaction times are slower and are almost as bad as with drunk drivers when using the phone behind the wheel.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Letum

"not even doing the speed limit"?
You know the speed limit is the maximum speed, not the minimum? :rotfl:

Not in the US - you even get a ticket if you drive 15 MPH slower than the posted speed. THe left lane is also a passing lane, not a slow cell phone lane. Holding up 5 or more cars is also ticket conditions.

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[STEED]

Plenty of rubberneckers here to put up with without this lot as well.

[Ducimus]

If i ever see a bumper sticker that says, "GET OFF THE PHONE AND DRIVE!", its going on my car - which currently has no bumper stickers at all. If that tells you how i feel about it.

heres a lovely story. Picture a T intersection with a stop light. With the horizontal part of the T being the main street, and the vertical part of the T being a road that comes in and out of a shopping center. I was on the main drag, stopped at a red light. Some woman was pulling out of the shopping center, talking on the cell phone. So engrossed in the conversation she was, she drove very slowly, and then, im guessing at really engrossing part of the conversation, stopped all together.

She was in the middle of the intersection, and my light turned green.

I then drove up , placing my bumper about a foot from her driver side door, and laid into the horn. (which is rather loud i might add, not your little beep, but a HOOONNKKK ).

The look on her face as she looked up was priceless, and the obsenities uttered from my mouth, equally entertaining. :rotfl:

[Weigh-Man]

In the Uk it was made an offence to use your mobile while driving a couple of years back.

Currently you can get fined and points added to your licence (12 points and you get a driving ban)

However it was recently announced that people caught using there mobiles while driving will now be sent to prison

You can still use hands free devices like bluetooth but even thats not encouraged, there have been studies that say having any kind of conversation while driving is akin to drink driving in terms of your response times and situational awareness

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Weigh-Man

In the Uk it was made an offence to use your mobile while driving a couple of years back.

Currently you can get fined and points added to your licence (12 points and you get a driving ban)

However it was recently announced that people caught using there mobiles while driving will now be sent to prison

I see on average 20 a day breaking the law, so why do they? Simple it's a law they can not enforce and people know it.