Speed limits, texting, and a poll.

[Porsche Chick]

My Boxster came with built-in Bluetooth, and I'll use that once in a while.

But I also have an auto text that I programmed into my phone. I hit a couple of letters and it spells out "I am driving and will respond to your text later". Then I text when I am parked at my destination. Takes the pressure off.

[jb92563]

Originally Posted by Porsche Chick

My Boxster came with built-in Bluetooth, and I'll use that once in a while.

But I also have an auto text that I programmed into my phone. I hit a couple of letters and it spells out "I am driving and will respond to your text later". Then I text when I am parked at my destination. Takes the pressure off.

I don't understand the urgency with cell phones. Phones are designed to queue things so you can get to them later. Answering machine for voice, texts queue, emails etc.

That's how I use mine. I only occasionally answer phone calls directly and leave them to the answering machine and texts for later retrieval at my leisure. Seems to be making me more of a commodity since I am not available to everyone, all the time, when ever THEY want.

If the world loses contact with people for an hour or 3 it will not come to a grinding halt, unless your in active duty combat.

As a matter of fact if most of us mysteriously disappear forever it would merely be an uncomfortable feeling for the rest, which would soon pass.

Based on some stats others posted, calling someone in their car could be a good way to kill them without ever being investigated for homocide. Time to start calling the EX more often.

Rant complete, thanks for reading and planning your counter argument!

[danch]

Originally Posted by jb92563

I don't understand the urgency with cell phones. Phones are designed to queue things so you can get to them later. Answering machine for voice, texts queue, emails etc.

That's how I use mine. I only occasionally answer phone calls directly and leave them to the answering machine and texts for later retrieval at my leisure. Seems to be making me more of a commodity since I am not available to everyone, all the time, when ever THEY want.

If the world loses contact with people for an hour or 3 it will not come to a grinding halt, unless your in active duty combat.

As a matter of fact if most of us mysteriously disappear forever it would merely be an uncomfortable feeling for the rest, which would soon pass.

Based on some stats others posted, calling someone in their car could be a good way to kill them without ever being investigated for homocide. Time to start calling the EX more often.

Rant complete, thanks for reading and planning your counter argument!

customers want contact immediately, that's why I installed Bluetooth so that when I am driving between locations they can contact me, if they can't then I lose business...it's that simple.

customers are impatient & will use another company as first contact is everything

[dbear61]

Texting while driving is arguably more dangerous and more heinous behavior than drunk driving. Even reading a text while driving is dangerous.

Anybody, ANYBODY who texts while driving is either too stupid or too selfish to be driving at all.

For those who answered "Yes" or even "On rare occasions", if you can't get by without your face planted in your phone, ride the bus. You'll save a life, and it may be your own.

I've given up on hoping people won't talk on the phone while driving. Studies have shown that even talking on the phone is more distracting than talking to a passenger.

I guess that's one benefit to driving top-down: it's pointless to have a phone conversation because there's too much noise (for me at least) to hear what the other party is saying, and it washes out what I'm trying to say into the hands-free mic.

DBear

[tomc88]

I wonder if things like Apple Carplay or whatever it's called will just make things worse.
People DO get ingress with a mere phone call. Some people are good an pull over before picking up there phone to answer. But you can sometimes see they are in a panic "MUST ANSWER NOW" and barely pull over. just stock their car almost in the lane.

With social media popping up on a console screen, people will be on their reading their Facebook

no matter how good some of the drivers here THINK they are, if your eyes are off the road for just a split second, then it could already be too late.
You can take the risk, most likely you'll be OK, but you could be the one that ploughs through a mother and child