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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
The problem with this is that you just might not know that you've had near misses, cut anybody off, or any other such experience.........
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I have a couple points.
The first point seems to get a number of responses about me thinking I am a better driver than other people or something. But I do not think that. When I talk on the cell phone while I am driving I do not talk while I am changing lanes, or driving downtown, or in a mall parking lot, or making multiple turns in residential, or when there is heavy traffic, or.. do you get the point? I only talk on the phone when I driving in a multi-lane road. I stay in my lane, I am not changing lanes. I am not cutting people off. I am looking all around me. I am doing the standard checks as when I normally drive. I still see other things. I do not have indepth conversations about work etc. Those are my personal rules for talking on the phone while driving.
Second point is. Yes, there are an absurd number of people who are talking on the phone and driving poorly. Something does have to be done about it. I am sure we all have stories to tell about somebody on the phone. My latest was the car in front of me driving like the person was drunk. (I was not on the phone) The car was going about a third into the left hand lane and then flip back. I had to pass the person to see WTF. It was a woman practically napping against the drivers window and talking on the phone. She couldn't see around her vehicle.