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Texting and driving legislation: Nanny state law?
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostThat's called farding while driving.
What gets me is passing some woman and seeing her applying eye makeup. One little bump and she can jab her eye.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
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One of my coworkers told me a story about a guy he used to work with who had a 3-hour drive to work everyday. He'd pick up a coffee and a copy of the Wall Street Journal near his house, and he'd have the whole thing read by the time he got to work. He apparently did this for decades and never got in an accident.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
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Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by seer View PostYes when I used to drive truck I saw a lot of women applying make up while steering with their knees. One of the best was a guy eating from a plate of pasta on this lap. I couldn't tell if he was farting though...
Years ago a local radio host used to get a lot of mileage out of talking about wimmenfolk farding in cars and getting outraged responses. He did the same thing complaining about all the blatant thespians in TV shows.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostFarding not far...
Years ago a local radio host used to get a lot of mileage out of talking about wimmenfolk farding in cars and getting outraged responses. He did the same thing complaining about all the blatant thespians in TV shows.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostFarding not far...
Years ago a local radio host used to get a lot of mileage out of talking about wimmenfolk farding in cars and getting outraged responses. He did the same thing complaining about all the blatant thespians in TV shows.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostTexting and driving is banned in 46 states. Texas is one of the four holdouts; though the bill has been proposed many times, it's been killed because it's viewed as nanny state legislation.
Last week, a young man was texting and driving and plowed into a church bus on a Texas highway, killing 13 senior citizens. This got plenty of media attention and from what I read, this incident may flip enough votes to where the legislation can now pass.
I honestly don't see how this is nanny state legislation. I could see that case being made for seat belt laws being nanny state legislation since it's your own fault if you don't buckle up and get killed, but texting and driving makes you a danger to other drivers on the road as well.I'm not here anymore.
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Originally posted by Leonhard View PostThe question is, how long will human beings be allowed to drive cars on public roads when cars with autopilot become the norm?
ETA: I do think it's coming, I just think it's a long time off before it gets to the point where a govt could do that without meaning that the majority drivers get banned from the roads because their cars simply don't have the tech yet.Last edited by Raphael; 04-05-2017, 06:01 PM.Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
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Originally posted by mossrose View PostAnd another issue is pedestrians texting. There has been an increase in pedestrian accidents caused by the walker not paying attention and stepping out in front of vehicles, and 2 or 3 people killed walking along train tracks with earbuds and phones in hand.
It's a real problem.
Which may be why our neighbours across the ditch started the "Dumb Ways to Die" train safety campaign.Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
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Originally posted by Raphael View PostWe've had a number of cases (more than we should) of pedestrians being hit by trains because they crossed the lines with their headphones too loud.
Which may be why our neighbours across the ditch started the "Dumb Ways to Die" train safety campaign."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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Originally posted by Raphael View Postconsidering that will take atleast 10-20 years to trickle down to the second hand car market and first it needs to get working in the top of the range car market and trickle down to the cheap new car market ...... I think it's still a long time coming.
ETA: I do think it's coming, I just think it's a long time off before it gets to the point where a govt could do that without meaning that the majority drivers get banned from the roads because their cars simply don't have the tech yet.
Consider the Tesla's, which on their early-stage beta version of their autopilot has crashed killing one man, but it has so far been statistically safer than other cars by a factor of three or four. I think they put it at one hundred million driven miles per accident (sample size of one though). Compare this to one death per thirty million driven miles with regular cars.
Driving isn't complex. The traffic laws are a relatively simple state machine to implement. The big problem comes from stuff like recognizing a yellow slow down sign when driving up against a sundown. There's still a lot of edge cases to their visual recognition software which has to be fixed before it can become the norm.
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Originally posted by Raphael View Postconsidering that will take atleast 10-20 years to trickle down to the second hand car market and first it needs to get working in the top of the range car market and trickle down to the cheap new car market ...... I think it's still a long time coming.
ETA: I do think it's coming, I just think it's a long time off before it gets to the point where a govt could do that without meaning that the majority drivers get banned from the roads because their cars simply don't have the tech yet.
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