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Ghoulish Delight · 01-03-2008, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Do the world a favor, if you absolutely feel the need to hold a phone conversation, pull over.

Interestingly enough, one of the observed, unintended side effects of the hands-free laws in those places that have had them has been people doing just that...anywhere and everywhere. In the middle of the road. My brother-in-law witnessed it in Israel, and I witnessed it in NY. Cars just stopping, blocking intersections and roads simply because they didn't want to get caught driving while on the phone.

Snowflake · 01-03-2008, 11:17 AM

Perhaps we need phone pull out spots on freeways. Ugh, what a thought.

I have to admit, some phone calls during the 3000 mile trek west across the vast wasteland of highway 80 helped a good deal with boredom.

Alex · 01-03-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Snowflake

Perhaps we need phone pull out spots on freeways. Ugh, what a thought.

We already have them. They're called off ramps and connect to surface streets where it is safe to stop and talk. Except in the most desolate parts of the country one is never on a freeway and more than 10 minutes away from one.

My favorite observed cell phone accident was a woman in a stick shift on a hill in San Francisco. She didn't notice she was rolling backwards and front-ended the car behind her at the grand speed of about 2 miles an hour. Despite the honking of that other car.

Alex · 01-03-2008, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Interestingly enough, one of the observed, unintended side effects of the hands-free laws in those places that have had them has been people doing just that...anywhere and everywhere.

Well, if they're stopping in the middle of the road, then they aren't doing "just that" since I said to pull over.

And I'm not advocating laws requiring it (I haven't yet decided if I think they are warranted and justifiable), just asking that people of their own free will stop having phone conversations while driving because despite everybody's self assurance that they are one of the people good at it, almost all of us are wrong.

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