Beaverton Bans Cell Phones

[audiophile]

https://www.abc12.com/content/news/Beav ... 28101.html

I think we'd all be better off not using phone while driving.

[Turkeytop]

Amen. That's a good first step.

Now they need to ban them in restaurants, bars, stores, post offices, libraries, churches, Doctor's offices, funeral homes, Union Halls and cottage cheese shops..

[screen glare]

1. Next time you’re first in line at a stop light waiting to complete your “Michigan left turn” - during the busy morning or evening commute - notice how many drivers who have the green light are using their smart phones as they whiz across in front of your stopped car.

2. Next time you pull up to a stop light notice if anyone in the lanes beside you has stopped an unusual one or two full car lengths back - instead of pulling up near the car ahead of them and stopping.

3. Next time you’re stopped at a red light notice how much more frequently the lead car is waiting a very long while to proceed after the light has turned green.

Drivers are now often dangerously distracted because of ubiqhtse smart phone usage while driving. Which intensely compounds the chances of your car or truck being involved in an injury/fatal accident.

I’d like to see a one year trial “smart phone automatic communication disconnect” that occurs whenever the device is in a moving car or truck. If there was a sharp decline in vehicle accidents during that time period perhaps it would provide enough evidence to vote in or federally mandate a permanent
smart phone communication ban while driver’s vehicles are moving.

[bmw]

Hell has officially frozen over. I find myself agreeing with every word in one of Screen Glare's posts.

I personally despise smart phones and everything they stand for. I especially despise people who use them while driving.

[Turkeytop]

I personally despise smart phones and everything they stand for. I especially despise people who use them while driving.

Driving, shopping, eating in restaurants, sitting in waiting rooms, visiting the library, in the lineup at the bank - - -

[TC Talks]

Bring back manual transmissions, problem solved. Both of my kids have them and don't answer when driving.

[Turkeytop]

We were at a McD in TN. Guy in the lineup was talking on the phone to his friend who was sitting at a table about 20 ft away. They were both speaking loud enough that they could have easily carried on their conversation without a phone.

[Bryce]

Don Henley was right...

[craig11152]

Distracted driving isn't a right. Indeed driving a car not distracted isn't a right. It's a privilege.
One cannot give up a "right" that doesn't exist.

[bmw]

Traveling is a right. Driving a motorized vehicle is a privilege.

Go driving a car down a public road, without a drivers' license, without car insurance, at 100 MPH, and let me know how that works out for you when you get pulled over, even if you don't hurt anybody in the process.

[Deleted User 14990]

Ugh... I honestly hate cell phones, they annoy me. I've never owned a smart phone myself(odd for someone just shy of 40, just have never seen the appeal to it. Would it make my life easier? Maybe. I just see $$$ going out the window myself. So I still cling to my old Flipper dumb phone.

Now, Texting and driving, that's foolish. If I see someone doing that, I will blow the horn.

[craig11152]

Traveling is a right. Driving a motorized vehicle is a privilege.

Go driving a car down a public road, without a drivers' license, without car insurance, at 100 MPH, and let me know how that works out for you when you get pulled over, even if you don't hurt anybody in the process.

It's clear that LL101 is a troll. But beyond trolling I can't figure out where "it" falls on various bell curves like overall intelligence, logical thinking, "big picture vision" etc.

[Turkeytop]

Being rude and obnoxious is a right. Cell phone users cherish that right.

[matt1]

Beaverton Beavers are 9 - 0 in their football season for the first time ever!!