Anyone who thought txtn might be a good idea while driving.

[Jack]

Applying lipstick, eating an apple, smoking a fag, or 'inappropriate intimacy', the end result may the same.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3x7K3EOTk

[lapsedhibee]

Applying lipstick, eating an apple, smoking a fag, or 'inappropriate intimacy', the end result may the same.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3x7K3EOTk

Disagree. Any competent individual can eat an apple and drive safely at the same time. Only complete ****** ******* morons drive while texting.

[Beefster]

Disagree. Any competent individual can eat an apple and drive safely at the same time. Only complete ****** ******* morons drive while texting.

To be fair, we've all eaten something whilst driving but I would imagine that doing anything which stops you from being able to immediately put both hands on the steering wheel would be a danger.

Good video and hopefully, it will scare some kids into not pissing about when they learn to drive.

Off topic completely - the first guy on the scene is in a YouTube series that I watch called 'Svengali'. It's quite funny so well worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/user/orangeriver

[lapsedhibee]

anything which stops you from being able to immediately put both hands on the steering wheel would be a danger
Like changing gear? :wink:

[Wilson]

I'd take my chances with the inappropriate intimacy - I get offered it that seldom! :grr:

[JennaFletcher]

Heidi Montag's plastic surgeon died when his car fell off a Holywood hill after tweeting about his dog!! :bitchy:

[SlickShoes]

Heidi Montag's plastic surgeon died when his car fell off a Holywood hill after tweeting about his dog!! :bitchy:

If only the bold parts were true!

[IWasThere2016]

This morning on the motorway, I looked over to my right and there was a woman, in a brand new VW Sirocco, doing 80mph!

She had her face up next to her rear view mirror - putting on her eyeliner.

I looked away for a couple seconds! And when I looked back she was halfway over in my lane, still working on that makeup.

As a man, I don't scare easily. But she scared me so much; I dropped my electric shaver, which knocked the meat pie out of my other hand.

In all the confusion of trying to straighten out the car using my knees against the steering wheel, it knocked my mobile phone away from my ear which fell into the coffee between my legs, splashed, and burned Big Jim and the Twins! ruined the phone, soaked my trousers, and disconnected an important call.

BL88DY women drivers!!! :grr:











:greengrin

[SlickShoes]

This morning on the motorway, I looked over to my right and there was a woman, in a brand new VW Sirocco, doing 80mph!

She had her face up next to her rear view mirror - putting on her eyeliner.

I looked away for a couple seconds! And when I looked back she was halfway over in my lane, still working on that makeup.

As a man, I don't scare easily. But she scared me so much; I dropped my electric shaver, which knocked the meat pie out of my other hand.

In all the confusion of trying to straighten out the car using my knees against the steering wheel, it knocked my mobile phone away from my ear which fell into the coffee between my legs, splashed, and burned Big Jim and the Twins! ruined the phone, soaked my trousers, and disconnected an important call.

BL88DY women drivers!!! :grr:











:greengrin

:top marks

[bighairyfaeleith]

I am guilty of eating while driving, I tend to stick to a quarter pounder with cheese meal these days. I found the donner pizza a bit messy and the 16inch box didn't really fit on my lap:boo hoo:

[IWasThere2016]

:top marks

Ithangoo :thumbsup:

[Steve-O]

If people are competent enough texters they should be able to text without even looking at the phone :agree::wink:

[matty_f]

If people are competent enough texters they should be able to text without even looking at the phone :agree::wink:

And good enough drivers shouldn't need to watch the road.:greengrin

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To be fair, we've all eaten something whilst driving but I would imagine that doing anything which stops you from being able to immediately put both hands on the steering wheel would be a danger.

Good video and hopefully, it will scare some kids into not pissing about when they learn to drive.

Off topic completely - the first guy on the scene is in a YouTube series that I watch called 'Svengali'. It's quite funny so well worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/user/orangeriver


Like changing gear? :wink:


Changing gear is part of driving, eating an apple or anything else isn't.

This is about distractions and the impairment of the driver's concentration on what's happening to his/her car and to the vehicles around it.

We all assume we're much better drivers than we really are.

We all forget just how easy it is to die in an RTA. Or to kill someone else.

As far as texting and using mobile phones while driving goes, why can't someone come up with a device to be installed in all motor vehicles that interferes with the signal and just makes it impossible?

[(((Fergus)))]

Changing gear is part of driving, eating an apple or anything else isn't.

This is about distractions and the impairment of the driver's concentration on what's happening to his/her car and to the vehicles around it.

We all assume we're much better drivers than we really are.

We all forget just how easy it is to die in an RTA. Or to kill someone else.

As far as texting and using mobile phones while driving goes, why can't someone come up with a device to be installed in all motor vehicles that interferes with the signal and just makes it impossible?

No need for that as there's applications for phones now that convert spoken word to text, i.e., you can send texts handsfree - or at least compose them anyway. Full handsfree functionality won't be far away if it's not already there.

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No need for that as there's applications for phones now that convert spoken word to text, i.e., you can send texts handsfree - or at least compose them anyway. Full handsfree functionality won't be far away if it's not already there.


I'm not sure it's a terribly good idea carrying on a conversation in those terms while driving, Fergus - I have the same reservations about that as I have about speaking over hands-free mobile phones. It obviously depends on the nature of the conversation, but an extended, animated conversation with someone outside the car strikes me as potentially distracting and therefore dangerous.

I'm unconvinced of the ability of the average human mind to cope efficiently with more than one thing at a time, even when NOT travelling at 60-70mph in a motor vehicle. Especially since a lot of sub-average human minds (i.e. morons) are allowed to take control of those motor vehicles.

And I really don't want some teenage bimbo airhead creaming me or mine because she's more intent on setting up a date with her boyfriend when she should have her mind on the road.

[lapsedhibee]

Changing gear is part of driving, eating an apple or anything else isn't.

:tsk tsk: Beefster's point was, if I may paraphrase, that not having two hands available for the steering wheel is dangerous. My point is that it's acceptable to take a hand off the wheel to change gear. It's no more dangerous to hold an apple, which can be dropped at any time in the event that two hands are required. If two hands are required at all times for driving then all cars should be automatic and hand signals (aren't they still in the Highway Code?) should be banned.

As for jamming the signals, wouldn't that also stop passengers using mobiles, which would infringe their liberties innit? (Personally would like the jamming extended to supermarket checkouts. :agree:)

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:tsk tsk: Beefster's point was, if I may paraphrase, that not having two hands available for the steering wheel is dangerous. My point is that it's acceptable to take a hand off the wheel to change gear. It's no more dangerous to hold an apple, which can be dropped at any time in the event that two hands are required. If two hands are required at all times for driving then all cars should be automatic and hand signals (aren't they still in the Highway Code?) should be banned.

As for jamming the signals, wouldn't that also stop passengers using mobiles, which would infringe their liberties innit? (Personally would like the jamming extended to supermarket checkouts. :agree:)


And MY point was that it's not so much how many hands you have on the wheel (as long as you have at least one) as whether your mind is fully on the road and the process of driving safely.

I wasn't saying that you have to have both hands on the steering wheel at all times to be safe. My point was that your mind has to be on the road at all times to be safe.

One hand on the wheel, one hand on an apple or a drinks can - you gotta third hand available to change gear? :cool2:

And as for civil liberties - governments have always had to balance the freedom of the citizen against his/her responsibility. I wasn't really being serious about jamming the signals - sorry if I hadn't made that clear. I do consider that driving while using a mobile phone should be treated a lot more harshly than it is in this country.

[lapsedhibee]

And MY point was that it's not so much how many hands you have on the wheel (as long as you have at least one) as whether your mind is fully on the road and the process of driving safely.
Of course but unless your name is Gerald Ford, you can chew and be road-aware at the same time.


One hand on the wheel, one hand on an apple or a drinks can - you gotta third hand available to change gear? :cool2:
Not sure if you've ever actually eaten an apple, but you should find that you can easily hold an apple in your teeth for the time it takes to change gear in one of those daredevil manual cars. (Or perhaps that's a skill only learned by those of us who in better, more athletic days have chored apples and needed both hands free for a wall-scaling getaway.)


I do consider that driving while using a mobile phone should be treated a lot more harshly than it is in this country.
Totally agree with that. Horsewhipping would be too good by half.

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Of course but unless your name is Gerald Ford, you can chew and be road-aware at the same time.
Not sure if you've ever actually eaten an apple, but you should find that you can easily hold an apple in your teeth for the time it takes to change gear in one of those daredevil manual cars. (Or perhaps that's a skill only learned by those of us who in better, more athletic days have chored apples and needed both hands free for a wall-scaling getaway.)


Totally agree with that. Horsewhipping would be too good by half.


I bow to your superior judgment on the eating and stealing of apples.

However, I still wouldn't travel as a passenger in a car driven by someone who ate or drank anything while driving.

It isn't safe - which is why changing gear while eating an apple isn't in the driving test.... :wink:

[Steve-O]

I bow to your superior judgment on the eating and stealing of apples.

However, I still wouldn't travel as a passenger in a car driven by someone who ate or drank anything while driving.

It isn't safe - which is why changing gear while eating an apple isn't in the driving test.... :wink:

But surely it's dangerous to jump out of a moving car when the driver cracks open a bottle of Irn Bru while tearing it doon the motorway...?

[bighairyfaeleith]

But surely it's dangerous to jump out of a moving car when the driver cracks open a bottle of Irn Bru while tearing it doon the motorway...?

yeah but it makes for a great youtube moment:greengrin