FYI

[serai]

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For those of you accustomed to yammering on your cell phones while driving:


Cell phone users tie up traffic, research says.


"It's a bit like breaking wind in the elevator. Everyone suffers," Peter Martin of the University of Utah's Traffic Lab said in a telephone interview.


Ahaha! How well he phrases it! That's exactly what I think of this selfish, egregious practice. I swear, every time I see one of those self-involved assholes nattering away with no attention to either the inconvenience or downright danger to which they put everyone else on the road, I'm tempted to commit some grievous bodily harm.

Comments

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

I'm so rarely near a road these days, except to cross it, that it doesn't bother me as much as it used to. Cell phone users on Metra, however!!!

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Seattle, or maybe Washington as a whole, has made that illegal starting this year. This law gives me a vengeful delight. Hang up and drive, o dumb world.

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I've always been flabbergasted by that practice. I use the cell while driving only to report life-threatening emergencies to 911 when I can't stop for safety reasons, and also can't wait to report without causing danger to those involved, and I think that has happened maybe twice in the ten years that I've had one. (I only actually remember one time, so I'm hedging.) I don't keep my cellphone on most of the time, and hardly ever give out the number. Hell, even when I have to pull into a parking space to make a call to someone I'm supposed to meet, I drop the damned thing on the car floor half the time!

Catherine

[serai1.livejournal.com]

It's illegal in 50 countries around the world. But we can't be bothered to outlaw it, no matter how many people die in crashes because of it. And they do - I've seen the wrecks. It's especially bad here in L.A., where all the moronic Hollywood show-biz assholes go around yacking on their phones all day. *stabs them all*