Do you surf the 'net while driving? Almost 20% of drivers* do !!

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited March 2011 in The Clubhouse
From USA Today....

19% of drivers surf the net while driving

* Informal study conducted by State Farm Insurance

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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited March 2011
    Impressive...

    I do too!

    Well, I count listening to my GPS as surfing the web.
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited March 2011
    No, I'd like to keep my Camaro in showroom condition......
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited March 2011
    Its was such a hassle removing the bicycles and wheelchairs from the grille that I gave it up...
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited March 2011
    I haven't figured out yet how to get my desktop puter to work in the car.
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  • gimpod
    gimpod Posts: 1,793
    edited March 2011
    madmax wrote: »
    Its was such a hassle removing the bicycles and wheelchairs from the grille that I gave it up...

    Especially power chairs they can be a real **** to get out of the grille work let alone off your bumper. :wink:

    19% why does this not surprise me actually I'd thought it would be higher.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited March 2011
    Not I...

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  • pdxfj
    pdxfj Posts: 376
    edited March 2011
    Nope. I won't even talk on the phone with a headset while driving. There is not anything important enough that can't wait (a bit) to be dealt with.

    Riding a motorcycle (street bike) will change your view points on distracted drivers.
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited March 2011
    I've seen cops reading newspapers/magazines while driving... this doesn't surprise me.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,392
    edited March 2011
    Nope... not me.

















    ...posted from my Iphone at 90mph!:biggrin::tongue::wink:
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited March 2011
    I don't text either. I think the fines should be much stiffer. Suspended license should be in order 2nd offense, and 30 days on the 3rd.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited March 2011
    iM possting frpm my phone ritte now whil riding my mptorcycle
    -Cdy
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    edited March 2011
    ben62670 wrote: »
    I think the fines should be much stiffer. Suspended license should be in order 2nd offense, and 30 days on the 3rd.
    I agree completely. I drive a truck that rides pretty high up and you would be amazed at how many people text or surf while driving. It's no worse than drinking and driving or driving on some hardcore drugs.

    I saw the end result of a family getting plowed over [moments after it happened] the other week 40' in front of me. A teenager was driving twice the posted speed limit while texting and ran over a mother, her father and a newborn. Only the newborn survived. After looking at the stroller all mangled up laying on the side of the road? That's one incredibly lucky child. Well, maybe not lucky but extremely blessed to be alive.

    It makes me sick to the stomach to see dead people in front of me because of someone's lack of judgment. It took less than a half a second of texting to take two lives. It was a perfect sunny day and there was no traffic when she hit them. The kicker is, she told the cops that she was "distracted" by something that fell on the floor so this wasn't even written up as a texting accident. It was a "speeding" accident even though eyewitnesses said otherwise.

    From what I see on a daily basis, I would venture to say that 20% is a conservative figure. Cops are just as guilty as we are, undercover or not.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2011
    ben62670 wrote: »
    I don't text either. I think the fines should be much stiffer. Suspended license should be in order 2nd offense, and 30 days on the 3rd.

    I agree in theory but it's damn near impossible to enforce.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited March 2011
    exalted512 wrote: »
    iM possting frpm my phone ritte now whil riding my mptorcycle
    -Cdy

    And your on a ZX-6. You have big cojones bro.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2011
    exalted512 wrote: »
    iM possting frpm my phone ritte now whil riding my mptorcycle
    -Cdy

    I have exclusive video of this.

    <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7amxE3RLAzQ&quot; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited March 2011
    Sherardp wrote: »
    And your on a ZX-6. You have big cojones bro.

    I learned from this guy:
    <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K59eMpWsyNE&quot; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited March 2011
    exalted512 wrote: »
    I learned from this guy:

    -Cody
    Haha! I don't what's worse - texting or shooting video while driving! That guy was all over the road!
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited March 2011
    I just realized me and bobman posted the same video at the same time...haha.
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  • thesurfer
    thesurfer Posts: 574
    edited March 2011
    Not me,, im to busy looking out for the idiots that are,, talking on there cell phones,, texting,,, in parts of my state its hefty ticket,, also a good way to get killed,,
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2011
    Texting while driving should carry the same penalty as DUI, and the victims family should be allowed to shove the cell phone up the offenders ****.
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  • jcandy
    jcandy Posts: 501
    edited March 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Texting while driving should carry the same penalty as DUI, and the victims family should be allowed to shove the cell phone up the offenders ****.
    Hey, we agree! It might even be worse than you'd imagine:
    A 2003 study by the University of Utah psychology department measured response time, following distance, and driving speed of a control group, subjects at the legal BAC limit of 0.08%, and subjects involved in cell phone conversations. Data from the report are listed to the right.

    As the study notes; "... this is the third in a series of studies that we have conducted evaluating the effects of cell phone use on driving using the car following procedure (see also Strayer & Drews, 2004; and Strayer et al., 2003). Across these three studies, 120 participants performed in both baseline and cell phone conditions. Two of the participants in our studies were involved in an accident in baseline conditions, whereas 10 participants were involved in an accident when they were conversing on a cell phone." However zero (0) drunk drivers had accidents in any of the tests. When results of this study are taken at face value it suggests that it is actually safer to drive drunk than sober. After controlling for driving difficulty and time on task, the study concluded that cell phone drivers exhibited greater impairment than intoxicated drivers.[6]
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  • JimAckley
    JimAckley Posts: 1,138
    edited March 2011
    exalted512 wrote: »
    iM possting frpm my phone ritte now whil riding my mptorcycle
    -Cdy

    And this, gentlemen, is proof that "natural selection" is real. I'm all for living life on the wild side, I do it almost every day, but you won't find me on a donorcycle trying to use a phone.


    I used to do some minor surfing while driving while I had a Samsung Blackjack 2. With that phone I had the ability to feel my way around the keyboard and other buttons while paying attention to the road for the most part. Now that I have an iPhone, it's pretty much impossible, as the total-touchscreen interface requires your complete attention to manipulate and maneuver. You have no physical feedback to rely on aside from visual.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2011
    JimAckley wrote: »
    And this, gentlemen, is proof that "natural selection" is real. I'm all for living life on the wild side, I do it almost every day, but you won't find me on a donorcycle trying to use a phone.

    You realize he was joking, right, captain tightpants?
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  • JimAckley
    JimAckley Posts: 1,138
    edited March 2011
    Ah I didn't read all the way down :tongue: That's what I get for trying to get on the forums right when I wake up haha. My bad!
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited March 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    You realize he was joking, right, captain tightpants?

    Yea...uh, I was totally joking:tongue:
    JimAckley wrote: »
    Ah I didn't read all the way down :tongue: That's what I get for trying to get on the forums right when I wake up haha. My bad!

    Damn dude, its 1:30pm!
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    you realize he was joking, right, captain tightpants?

    rotflmao!!
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  • JimAckley
    JimAckley Posts: 1,138
    edited March 2011
    exalted512 wrote: »
    Damn dude, its 1:30pm!
    -Cody

    It's my day off :biggrin:
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  • JimAckley
    JimAckley Posts: 1,138
    edited March 2011
    and since I brought up natural selection, it would be wrong of me not to post this: :biggrin:

    natural-selection-demotivational-poster-1198873139.jpg
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited March 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    rotflmao!!

    congrats on your 12,000th post!
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