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I support a ban on ALL cell phone use, even hands-free.
Many drivers are dangerous enough and have no business making calls, too.
A PSA as directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Now that cell phone have GPS and you need to disable phone calls when traveling; there is an app for that.
The ironic thing about this PSA is that nothing I have ever seen out of Hollywood ever looked this realistic to me. (Note that more gorey doesn’t necessarily mean more realistic. I wonder what this video cost to make
Its not going to stop me texting while driving. Everyone knows that you dont actually look at your phone while you text, you ‘feel’ the buttons. Once you have written your message you give it a quick glance and hit the send button.
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(Obviously iPhone users can’t do this cause they don’t have the multi-tasking skills – c what i did there
Also you cannot be caught this way as your phone is completely out of view while you are using it. But, if you think it distracts you then thats your responsibility not to do it. Banning it is stupid, cause theres no way to stop people doing it anyway and its just going to make some people think its ‘cool’ to do it, and theyre the people that are going to be more likely causing the accidents.
#25. The Darwin Candidate speaks. Let me tell you something loser, if you make a mistake, and it causes me any problems whatsoever, I WILL go primeval on your sorry ass. And they will be removing your cell phone from your lower intestine….the funeral director that is.
And yeah, I can back it up.
I find it pretty funny watching insipid teenagers getting killed.
I’m with #21. Cellphones and texting need to be banned in moving cars, period. Every driver needs to see that video, but a lot of smartasses who feel invincible and immortal will just say, “Oh, that won’t happen to me! I know what I’m doing!”
In 2005, I got rear-ended while stopped at a red light by a jackass in a Lexus using a cellphone. He got pretty uppity about it, claiming I’d stopped short. Like hell I did, I was right at the stop line. The cops agreed I was totally and automatically blameless, and told the guy to STFU.
Turns out the idiot who rear-ended me was a lawyer!. Nice to know he got slapped with a minimum 25% surcharge on his insurance for three years because he was to blame, and I got a check for $850. Polishing compound got rid of the bumper cover scratches, and the $850 paid some bills.
The bad part is that now my neck still hurts occasionally, and sometimes my fingers will tingle or feel a bit numb. Could have been a lot worse!
Natural selection. Not all baby turtles make it to the ocean.
Now they need a PSA on the dangers of sitting next to me on the subway and shouting a whole cell phone conversation in my ear.
>> noname said, on August 25th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
>> Now that cell phone have GPS and you need to disable phone calls when traveling; there is an app for that.
It’s a good idea — I’d probably support a 60 second limiter or something like that.
I, personally, don’t drive and phone but if there is a passenger in the car, I have them make the call. You could no longer do this if phones care blocked once they are moving fast. The same with phones on trains, light rail, buses. etc.
But maybe it is worth-it. It is just crazy to let people drive and telephone.
i DONT NEED TO COMMENT as you all have said it.
I see more idiots driving with CELLPHONES in their ears, and ONLY 1 has ever pulled to the side.
Its not that is dangerous…ITS DANGEROUS to others.
I dont mind what you do with your LIFE..thats YOUR CHOICE. but DONT involve me.
Yes I have been stupid, as many of us have. But I TRY not to involve others, unless they willingly COME with me, and assist.
I have little control over your IDIOTIC past time.
I would suggest taking these folks, AFTER being caught..on a week-month long CAMPING TRIP with no electronics.
I only ever use my phone while driving if its a brief call or traffic is down to a crawl. Texting while driving is just just plain dangerous and should carry an attempted manslaughter rap or similar.
#2 Bobbo
I agree. Nothing shits me more than someone taking a call while in the middle of a convo with me. I let the shit go to voice mail as a common courtesy.
I once saw an idiot with a newspaper spread across the steering wheel, in heavy traffic at 60mph. Got away from him as fast as I could.
The PSA wasn’t graphic enough. There should have been some severed limbs and paramedics trying to match them up to the correct bodies. Then at least one of the cars should have exploded in a fireball.
For some reason the current cop of teens is retarded and it takes a lot to get through to them.
moral: if you’re gonna txt and drive, get a car with side airbags.
Anyone else notice how one of the EMS workers wasn’t wearing any gloves… shame, shame, shame, that is very dangerous, and is a great example of not acting responsibly with blood born pathogens…
Plus with all those crunches and bangs, no fire or smoke, not even a leaking fluid from the vehicles… WTF, I feel ripped.
This is lame. The PSA has barely anything to do with Texting in the first place.
They could have had her look down to tune the radio or take a sip from a soda then cream into someone then show the same 5 minutes of graphic footage.
Pointless drama BS.
#25, eaze,
Everyone knows that you dont actually look at your phone while you text, you ‘feel’ the buttons. Once you have written your message you give it a quick glance and hit the send button.
And everyone knows how your concentration is removed from driving by doing this. It has the same effect as driving drunk or high on drugs.
Personally I couldn’t give two shits if you want to kill yourself. My worry is the others on the road, or even on the sidewalk, you might meet while “texting”.
Here’s a short follow up…Part 2″
http://www.youtube.com/user/richardjonm#play/uploads/5/zbFJWDqc0C4
I’m a First Responder and my wife is an EMT. I have to say that I thought this video was spectacularly well done and extremely accurate in its portrayal of the medical processes involved in such a trauma. I’ve already sent it off to a number of friends, one of who said that she would never text again after seeing it… We shall see.
Tom