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XP Coupe
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I think this guys has a point. I know my concentration is less than desirable when I'm playing:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02...acted_driving/ |
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All Ford Club Life Member
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Location: Maryborough .......... All Ford Club of QLD
Posts: 1,590
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Man I should be CEO or something, I've been saying that for years.
Blind freddy could can see whats causing these "incidents" (not accidents) without waiting on yearly stats to come in. Next thing insurance companies will be asking is if you own a sat nav, moblie, incar entertainment system and not as extra kit to insure, but as a liability.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
Posts: 12,025
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yeah you have to wonder where the cut off point is , i must confess i like the gadets like blue tooth running through the gps, but even that has it draw backs for example yesterday while driveing up the highway a relo rang up(a fairly annoying one) she new i was on hands free, it took 31 minutes before the call ended ..... and i hardlly got a word in :togo: , while it takes no effort to talk and drive ......apart from some gadgets takeing concentration it can spoil the driveing experience.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 2,312
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For those who don't watch Mythbusters, they found that a phone call was the equivalent of driving at the BAC (drunk) limit.
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BLUE OVAL INC.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 8,645
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Lol and when there are no more gadgets allowed in cars they'll ban passengers from talking to the driver.
I can honestly say the only time i have been involved in what could be called an accident/incident/near miss was when i was distracted not by GPS, mobiles or the radio...but by passengers |
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King of the Fairy's.
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: CeeeeeTown.
Posts: 5,093
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I can honestly say I find the Climate Control distracting, when you're trying to get a specific setting and every time you turn it off and on again you have to re-do it all over.
The standard air con controls are so easy, turn this, push that, done. And it doesnt forget your settings.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 14,654
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What's a nagging wife or screaming kid equal too...? Paraletic??!!
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
Posts: 12,025
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I ♥ EDM
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Regular Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 250
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All of these pale into insignificance when you see the apalling driving skills of a car ahead of you, and as you approach to get past (usually because they are all over the road like a mad woman's knitting and doing 10km under the posted limit), you see they are trying to read a Refidex (Melways to you interstate folks) as they drive. For goodness sakes, just PULL OVER and find out where you are! Unless you are on a freeway (and that just ups the ante for fear factor by a multiplier of about, ooh, a thousand!), pull up, find where you are going, and THEN get back on the road and go.
Won't have a hands free in any of my cars, and also don't answer the phone either. Bugger 'em. Whatever it is can wait. If it's really urgent, they will ring again and again and then you know it could be important and it's time to pull over, turn off the ignition, put the handbrake on, get 'er in PARK and then yap to the person on the phone. Yeah, I treasure my time in my car, and I don't want to talk to anyone while I'm enjoying it. MM
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