In article ,
Dave Hinz wrote:
On 12 Jan 2005 09:26:51 -0800, jim rozen wrote:
In article .com,
Too_Many_Tools says...

Whether or not a cell phone driver wants to admit it, driving while
using a cell phone is an accident waiting to happen.

It's funny but nobody ever comes down on the *other* side
of this issue. Nobody ever posts, "yeah, I talk on the
phone all the time and it never causes a problem, you guys
are just nuts."

I use the phone in my car on occasion, and I'd like to think
that it hasn't caused any problems. Is that close enough?
I work in IT, and when the phone rings, I have to answer it,
because that's part of what my salary pays for.


So you leave the phone on when you are in an airplane in flight too? Let
voicemail take it and call them back. That is one of my buttons. Unless you
are the President or a doctor you _don't_ have to answer it. Heck, I'm not
even sure the President gets included in the list. Somehow we have all
become slaves to our own inflated self importance. Inconvience does not mean
the end of the world. Sorry, who let that soap box in here...?

I have taken phones away from drivers who were drifting in and out of lanes.
I have told the person on the other end that they are driving and will be
happy to call them back when it is safer. I have never gotten a bad response
from anyone but the driver who insists that it wasn't a problem and then has
to yank the car back into their lane.

I suspect that even folks who do it, realize the trouble they
are setting themselves up for. Further I bet that even the
folks who do use phones while driving, without causing
crashes, are still infuriated by the 90 percent of the
phone users who really are morons and poor drivers.

Yes. A bad driver is a bad driver with or without a cellphone.


But a cell phone seems to be an instant "square root and invert" function.

-- Joe

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Joseph M. Krzeszewski Mechanical Engineering and stuff
Jack of All Trades, Master of None... Yet