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Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Fairfax Citizen ()
Date: September 24, 2007 10:43AM

There is a developing and serious problem in Fairfax County. The soccer moms in their vans, the macho folks in their SUVs, and the kids in their new BMWs are increasingly using their mobiles while they drive. It is clear from the many near accidents, that if you drive, YOU SHOULD NOT USE YOUR MOBILE PHONE.

Is there any legislation to stop this dangerous practice? Do County public safety officials maintain any statistics on the accidents caused by this unsafe practice?

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: erik ()
Date: September 24, 2007 10:48AM

Developing? Increasingly?

Where have you been?

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Apple ()
Date: September 24, 2007 01:02PM

Only owners of iphone's can use them when driving. Cause we all know iphone owners are better then everyone else.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: talker ()
Date: September 24, 2007 02:08PM

I will talk on my phone while it is legal... it is your responsibility to watch where you are going... if you weren't tailgating me or hanging out in my blind spot I wouldn't have hit you dipshit. YOU are the unsafe driver and YOU are the problem here, NOT me.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Chas ()
Date: September 24, 2007 02:12PM

I agree that using one's cellular phone while driving can be distracting. It's certainly best to not use the phone while operating a vehicle. One thing I frequently see people do that irritates me is when they pull over to take a call but are still stopped in the roadway to do so. Yes, folks, the turn lane is still part of the roadway and if you stop in the turn lane you are doing so illegally and at your own risk. Even if someone isn't paying attention and hits you from behind while you are stopped in the turn lane you could still be held at fault for illegally stopping on the highway. How did we ever make it before cell phones?

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: KeepOnTruckin ()
Date: September 24, 2007 03:07PM

George barker will introduce legislation to put an end to using phones while driving if hes elected.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Andrea ()
Date: September 24, 2007 04:32PM

Well, shit.

While I agree that SOME people shouldnt be allowed to use their phone while driving, I also understand that it would be unfair, and people would bitch and moan about being singled out about it.

It sucks though...sometimes, you really dont have any other time to call someone except when you are in the car. Especially if you do a lot of driving to work, or whatever.

I work for a company that takes care of dog walking and pet sitting :) ((I love it, thanks!)) and I constantly have to call clients, the office, etc. It's hard to do that with dogs in your hands either because they are barking and carrying on, or because we get some rowdy not-good walkers.


Dammit, Im fucked if a law gets passed. :(

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Fairfax Citizen ()
Date: September 24, 2007 05:59PM

Vote for GEORGE BARKER!

What's his position on apprehending criminal illegal aliens in Fairfax County?

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: IhateStupidDrivers ()
Date: September 24, 2007 10:53PM

I think I will google for a cell jammer DIY and fuck with you stupid drivers who can't drive and talk on your cellular phones!

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: i talk and drive ()
Date: September 25, 2007 12:46AM

U must drive a corolla and have a pager... ;P

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: September 25, 2007 11:17AM

IhateStupidDrivers Wrote:
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> I think I will google for a cell jammer DIY and
> fuck with you stupid drivers who can't drive and
> talk on your cellular phones!


I think i will google for tire spikes DIY and fuck with you

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if somebody on their cell phone is a bad driver - its not because theyre on their phone, its cause they cant drive (inability to pay attention while driving falls under the bad-driving category in my book)...

whats the difference between talking to somebody IN the car, and talking with somebody on the phone? obviously, you loose the use of a hand due to holding the phone.. fortunately the acceleration & braking systems use foot pedals and you really only need the 1 hand to be on the wheel (except in manuals, of course)..

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Suburbanite ()
Date: September 25, 2007 03:52PM

talker Wrote:
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> I will talk on my phone while it is legal... it is
> your responsibility to watch where you are
> going... if you weren't tailgating me or hanging
> out in my blind spot I wouldn't have hit you
> dipshit. YOU are the unsafe driver and YOU are
> the problem here, NOT me.


Actually, YOU ARE the problem. And so are all the other idiots out there trying to drive and talk on their phones. The idiots sit at green lights, stop for green lights, run red lights, swerve into other lanes and back again, drive 15 - 20 miles BELOW the speed limit and the speed of other traffic.

Driving while talking on a cell phone is equivalent to driving drunk.
- University of Utah study concluded this past June.

And it makes no difference whether the telephone is hand-held or used hands-free.

"Cell phone conversation draws attention away from the processing of the visual environment," said David Strayer of the university's psychology department, one of the study's three authors. "We found a 50 percent reduction in the processing of visual information when you're driving and talking on a cell phone."

Test subjects were observed as they braked for a slowing car in front of them, then resumed speed. "When drivers were conversing on a cell phone, they were involved in more rear-end collisions ... and took 18 percent longer to return to their initial driving speed than when they were legally drunk," the paper says, adding that there was "equal impairment" with hand-held and hands-free phones.

A study published in 1997 in the New England Journal of Medicine, based on accident data in Toronto, found that the risk of driving and using a cell phone was similar to that when driving drunk and that, in both cases, the risk of a collision was three to six times higher than when a driver was sober and not using a cell phone.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: § ()
Date: September 25, 2007 04:15PM

Well, if you're using that same rationale, then driving with passengers who engage in open conversation while the motor vehicle is in operation should be illegal too.

I can hear it now, "Silence everyone! I don't want to get a ticket!" -§

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Fairfax Citizen ()
Date: September 25, 2007 04:36PM

§ check Suburbanite's post above--great attribution and more articulate than my original alert

Stay focused and off the mobile § and no more faulty syllogisms and mixed metaphors or you, indeed, will be ticketed

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: eccentricldy ()
Date: September 25, 2007 05:47PM

Hooray to Fairfax Citizen and Suburanite, I applaud you!!

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: § ()
Date: September 25, 2007 06:43PM

I agree with the general assertion of the study without knowing its methodology and do support a ban, in part, on mobile use while driving as DC has recently implemented. However, logically, talking on a mobile device is no different than talking to someone in your car. In fact, one could argue that talking to someone in your car is more distracting for the propensity of human nature to make eye contact and use animated gestures while engaged in conversation. Absent of a comparative study, lawmakers should not use unilateral studies of mobile use as a basis for legislation. Defense attorneys, dissenting experts and industry policy advocates would challenge such a ban based on this lack of consistency. The same argument could be applied for text messaging devices and visual navigation systems as well. -§

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Suburbanite ()
Date: September 25, 2007 08:32PM

I suspect that talking to passengers does in fact have a detrimental effect on driving skills. That might be part of the reason why teens can only have a certain number of passengers at a time. I certainly notice the lack of concentration of my driving if I get into a long drawn out conversation with someone while driving. Playing with the radio isn't helpful either, but I don't think they've done a study specifically testing any of those activities. That would also be why we have the passenger, if there is one, work the heat/AC or the radio dial, but we're not the norm.

I have noticed though that whenever someone is really driving like an idiot they are almost always on a cell phone, particularly on surface streets.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: mariokart ()
Date: September 25, 2007 11:22PM

erik Wrote:
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> Developing? Increasingly?
>
> Where have you been?

He's been sucking dick, if you want the truth.

Apple Wrote:
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> Only owners of iphone's can use them when driving.
> Cause we all know iphone owners are better then
> everyone else.

Fuck you.

talker Wrote:
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> I will talk on my phone while it is legal... it is
> your responsibility to watch where you are
> going... if you weren't tailgating me or hanging
> out in my blind spot I wouldn't have hit you
> dipshit. YOU are the unsafe driver and YOU are
> the problem here, NOT me.

Go fuck yourself.

Chas Wrote:
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> I agree that using one's cellular phone while
> driving can be distracting. It's certainly best
> to not use the phone while operating a vehicle.
> One thing I frequently see people do that
> irritates me is when they pull over to take a call
> but are still stopped in the roadway to do so.
> Yes, folks, the turn lane is still part of the
> roadway and if you stop in the turn lane you are
> doing so illegally and at your own risk. Even if
> someone isn't paying attention and hits you from
> behind while you are stopped in the turn lane you
> could still be held at fault for illegally
> stopping on the highway. How did we ever make it
> before cell phones?


I couldn't agree with you more.

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> George barker will introduce legislation to put an
> end to using phones while driving if hes elected.

Interesting..

Andrea Wrote:
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> Well, shit.
>
> While I agree that SOME people shouldnt be allowed
> to use their phone while driving, I also
> understand that it would be unfair, and people
> would bitch and moan about being singled out about
> it.
>
> It sucks though...sometimes, you really dont have
> any other time to call someone except when you are
> in the car. Especially if you do a lot of driving
> to work, or whatever.
>
> I work for a company that takes care of dog
> walking and pet sitting :) ((I love it, thanks!))
> and I constantly have to call clients, the office,
> etc. It's hard to do that with dogs in your hands
> either because they are barking and carrying on,
> or because we get some rowdy not-good walkers.
>
>
> Dammit, Im fucked if a law gets passed. :(

You know you can fucking pull over to the side of the road and call? Heck, you could even park somewhere. And don't bitch about having to take calls while driving, I also get calls and usually ignore them, until I can stop in a safe place and call them back. Now if it's an emergency, hand it to a passenger. If you're alone, you can go fuck yourself.

Fairfax Citizen Wrote:
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> Vote for GEORGE BARKER!
>
> What's his position on apprehending criminal
> illegal aliens in Fairfax County?

Is this guy God or something?

IhateStupidDrivers Wrote:
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> I think I will google for a cell jammer DIY and
> fuck with you stupid drivers who can't drive and
> talk on your cellular phones!

What the fuck are you on?

i talk and drive Wrote:
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> U must drive a corolla and have a pager... ;P

Even though I'm on the same side as you, that's not fucking funny. I drive a fucking Corolla.


bdimag Wrote:
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> IhateStupidDrivers Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I think I will google for a cell jammer DIY and
> > fuck with you stupid drivers who can't drive
> and
> > talk on your cellular phones!
>
>
> I think i will google for tire spikes DIY and fuck
> with you
>
> ----
>
> if somebody on their cell phone is a bad driver -
> its not because theyre on their phone, its cause
> they cant drive (inability to pay attention while
> driving falls under the bad-driving category in my
> book)...
>
> whats the difference between talking to somebody
> IN the car, and talking with somebody on the
> phone? obviously, you loose the use of a hand due
> to holding the phone.. fortunately the
> acceleration & braking systems use foot pedals and
> you really only need the 1 hand to be on the wheel
> (except in manuals, of course)..

blah blah blah


Suburbanite Wrote:
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> talker Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I will talk on my phone while it is legal... it
> is
> > your responsibility to watch where you are
> > going... if you weren't tailgating me or
> hanging
> > out in my blind spot I wouldn't have hit you
> > dipshit. YOU are the unsafe driver and YOU are
> > the problem here, NOT me.
>
>
> Actually, YOU ARE the problem. And so are all the
> other idiots out there trying to drive and talk on
> their phones. The idiots sit at green lights,
> stop for green lights, run red lights, swerve into
> other lanes and back again, drive 15 - 20 miles
> BELOW the speed limit and the speed of other
> traffic.
>
> Driving while talking on a cell phone is
> equivalent to driving drunk.
> - University of Utah study concluded this past
> June.
>
> And it makes no difference whether the telephone
> is hand-held or used hands-free.
>
> "Cell phone conversation draws attention away from
> the processing of the visual environment," said
> David Strayer of the university's psychology
> department, one of the study's three authors. "We
> found a 50 percent reduction in the processing of
> visual information when you're driving and talking
> on a cell phone."
>
> Test subjects were observed as they braked for a
> slowing car in front of them, then resumed speed.
> "When drivers were conversing on a cell phone,
> they were involved in more rear-end collisions ...
> and took 18 percent longer to return to their
> initial driving speed than when they were legally
> drunk," the paper says, adding that there was
> "equal impairment" with hand-held and hands-free
> phones.
>
> A study published in 1997 in the New England
> Journal of Medicine, based on accident data in
> Toronto, found that the risk of driving and using
> a cell phone was similar to that when driving
> drunk and that, in both cases, the risk of a
> collision was three to six times higher than when
> a driver was sober and not using a cell phone.

Okay.

§ Wrote:
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> Well, if you're using that same rationale, then
> driving with passengers who engage in open
> conversation while the motor vehicle is in
> operation should be illegal too.
>
> I can hear it now, "Silence everyone! I don't
> want to get a ticket!" -§

But it's different with passengers. You can pause when you want to, and even not listen to them and just nod.

Fairfax Citizen Wrote:
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> § check Suburbanite's post above--great
> attribution and more articulate than my original
> alert
>
> Stay focused and off the mobile § and no more
> faulty syllogisms and mixed metaphors or you,
> indeed, will be ticketed

Yep.

eccentricldy Wrote:
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> Hooray to Fairfax Citizen and Suburanite, I
> applaud you!!

I applaud you, motherfucker.

§ Wrote:
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> I agree with the general assertion of the study
> without knowing its methodology and do support a
> ban, in part, on mobile use while driving as DC
> has recently implemented. However, logically,
> talking on a mobile device is no different than
> talking to someone in your car. In fact, one
> could argue that talking to someone in your car is
> more distracting for the propensity of human
> nature to make eye contact and use animated
> gestures while engaged in conversation. Absent of
> a comparative study, lawmakers should not use
> unilateral studies of mobile use as a basis for
> legislation. Defense attorneys, dissenting
> experts and industry policy advocates would
> challenge such a ban based on this lack of
> consistency. The same argument could be applied
> for text messaging devices and visual navigation
> systems as well. -§

Right.

Suburbanite Wrote:
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> I suspect that talking to passengers does in fact
> have a detrimental effect on driving skills. That
> might be part of the reason why teens can only
> have a certain number of passengers at a time. I
> certainly notice the lack of concentration of my
> driving if I get into a long drawn out
> conversation with someone while driving. Playing
> with the radio isn't helpful either, but I don't
> think they've done a study specifically testing
> any of those activities. That would also be why we
> have the passenger, if there is one, work the
> heat/AC or the radio dial, but we're not the
> norm.
>
> I have noticed though that whenever someone is
> really driving like an idiot they are almost
> always on a cell phone, particularly on surface
> streets.

You made some good points. I think I will agree on you that passengers/radio CAN have an effect, but it's usually minor compared to cellphones.




- ze end -

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: September 26, 2007 12:06AM

ya forget what i said - point is, i'll use it even if its illegal...

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Andrea ()
Date: September 26, 2007 01:05AM

Jeez Mariokart, someone woke up with their panties in a wad today.

No one asked for your fucking input on what everyone else had to say, especially in one large post. Go fuck yourself.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: mariokart ()
Date: September 26, 2007 07:32AM

You're just mad I called you out good boy. >:D

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: J ()
Date: September 26, 2007 10:46AM

Suburbanite Wrote:
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> Driving while talking on a cell phone is
> equivalent to driving drunk.
> - University of Utah study concluded this past
> June.

Utah? How could a bunch of Mormons know that? They're not allowed to drink!

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: G-Man ()
Date: September 26, 2007 10:56AM

Suburbanite Wrote:
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> Driving while talking on a cell phone is
> equivalent to driving drunk

Can't be that bad.....

Just get a lame blue tooth headset and good to go. I have one that I only use in the car.

EoM

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: September 26, 2007 11:16AM

ya know... idiots need to make car chargers for the bluetooth things.. that way you can just leave it in the car... cell phone you'll obviously take inside to charge, but if your only using the bluetooth in the car - chances are you'll forget it in there..

and mariokart - i bet your one of those people that if somebody is driving the speed limit (or under) behind you, you get scared and pull to the side to let them by...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/2007 11:16AM by bdimag.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: mariokart ()
Date: September 26, 2007 11:18AM

bdimag Wrote:
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> ya know... idiots need to make car chargers for
> the bluetooth things.. that way you can just leave
> it in the car... cell phone you'll obviously take
> inside to charge, but if your only using the
> bluetooth in the car - chances are you'll forget
> it in there..
>
> and mariokart - i bet your one of those people
> that if somebody is driving the speed limit (or
> under) behind you, you get scared and pull to the
> side to let them by...


What the fuck? What logic did you use to conceive something like that? Nah, you don't know me. When I drive, I drive to thrill.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: September 26, 2007 11:19AM

My logic is undeniable

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: ffxn8v ()
Date: September 26, 2007 01:25PM

I use my cellphone all the time when driving. In fact, I have to recharge the battery every few hours, just to keep up.

It is legal and with voice commands, my eyes stay focused on drving.


Liberal states do like to take your freedoms away in leiu of personal responability. Just ask New York.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: G-Man ()
Date: September 26, 2007 01:28PM

bdimag Wrote:
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> ya know... idiots need to make car chargers for
> the bluetooth things.. that way you can just leave
> it in the car... cell phone you'll obviously take
> inside to charge, but if your only using the
> bluetooth in the car - chances are you'll forget
> it in there..

Mine has a little USB thing on it (i know there is a correct term for that)
Same as by CrackBerry, So I can use my car charger for both in the car.

EoM

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: September 26, 2007 02:02PM

thats useful... mine has what looks like a smaller version of the blackberry charger plug.. maybe i need to double check..

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Fairfax Citizen ()
Date: September 28, 2007 04:37AM

Is this recent law enforced? (I just noticed it's posted on the DMV website)
DMV News Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, June 8, 2007
Media Contact: Tia Freeman
Department of Motor Vehicles
(804) 367-6701
No More Using Cell Phones for Drivers Under 18
New Law Designed to Keep Teen Drivers Safer
RICHMOND - Effective July 1, 2007, Virginia drivers younger than 18 years of age may not operate a motor vehicle in Virginia while using a cellular telephone or other wireless communications devices. The new law prohibits the use of cell phones, even if they are considered to be hands-free. It also prohibits text-messaging while driving.
https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/webdoc/general/news/news.asp?id=5029

Now we need to add categories for soccer moms and SUV drivers.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: lol ()
Date: September 28, 2007 07:15AM

G-Man Wrote:
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> Suburbanite Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Driving while talking on a cell phone is
> > equivalent to driving drunk
>
> Can't be that bad.....
>
> Just get a lame blue tooth headset and good to go.
> I have one that I only use in the car.

i love the idiots who just don't get it that it's the concentration diverted from driving that causes the dangerous driving and not whether you are holding the phone in your hand. stupid stupid douchebag idiots

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: September 28, 2007 10:38AM

i love the idiots who just don't get it that it's the concentration diverted from driving that causes the dangerous driving and not whether you are holding the phone in your hand. stupid stupid douchebag idiots


so then what you saying is, when your driving... you should NOT have people in the car, because simply talking while driving is DANGEROUS..

infact, those with GPS nav systems with the audible turn by turn directions are also at risk - because being talked to is also DEATH DEFYING!!

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: allivant ()
Date: September 28, 2007 11:31AM

I just wrote about my driving peeves today:

My biggest peeve would probably have to be people that don’t use their turn signal. If you’re on the road with no one behind you or oncoming, then that’s fine. When there is someone trailing you or in front of you coming the other way/waiting to turn, then you should always use your signal to give them a heads up. I can see if you’re busy holding a phone with one hand and one hand driving, at least you have a reason for being an asshat. If both hands are free, then you have no good reason for not using your signal. In this case, you’re just a big donkey in my book.

Another thing that bothers me is when people exit on to a road and take it to the very limit of the ramp, sometimes passing that point. If everyone merged when they know they have to merge and the people already on the road let people in, then there would always be less of a backup. Of course that’s too easy and logical. Drivers that go to the very end piss me off. It pisses a lot of people off and in turn makes them unlikely to let people in. It’s a never ending cycle.

Coming in to work today I noticed this damned Mazda 6 that is always parked way to one side of a spot. It is usually parked within two inches of the line on the passenger side. The spot next to said Mazda is always empty. Guess why?

Oh, I just thought of another thing. When there is a lot of traffic and people have to stop at a green light because it is backed up beyond the intersection. Why is there always that jerk, that is turning right on to that road, that inches and tries to turn even though he has a red light? Wait your turn! That guy who has the green light didn’t stop so you could go!

vaburbia.com

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: September 28, 2007 12:43PM

i'm with you 100% allivant... more if possible.. those are definately some of the biggest peeves (of everyone else i'm sure)..

although the parking thing - sometimes it just happens - but it sounds like this guy is just fat or something and needs room to get out..

--

or when you want to turn left on a road (you at stop sign), and somebody is turning right at your street but don't signal as if they were going to continue straight..

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Jimmy ()
Date: September 30, 2007 04:15AM

i dont like the people with scarfs that obscure their side vision

everyday in the bad situation at GMU you can see covered woman driving with abandom seemingly oblivious to others as they snare parking spaces or drive out of the lots it's real scary

im short but what about the people who are so short they look through the steering wheel? try an experiement and go down in your seat so your eyes are at steering whell level

you cant see sh*t! why don't short people use a cushion?

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Factchecker ()
Date: September 30, 2007 03:00PM

The poster above who is calling the researchers at the University of Utah "a bunch of Mormons" is probably just trying to joke, but let's clarify that BYU in Provo is the "Mormon" college. U of U is a huge non-secular research institution across the disciplines including several cutting edge medical facilities integrated into their medical training programs. BYU on the other hand is run by the LDS and has been known to censor factual information that the church finds inconvenient - serving as a constant reminder to the U of U as to the importance of academic integrity.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: kathy ()
Date: October 01, 2007 12:10AM

This is a perfect example of the fucking assholes that live here. Lets make everything illegal! Including the government jobs you assholes move here for. What a bunch of worthless shits !

Cellphones are dangerous BLA BLA BLA

get a fucking life people.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Fairfax Citizen ()
Date: October 01, 2007 04:58AM

Kathy, a refined Southern lady you are NOT. You are a scatologist. Besides being a self-declared lesbian. Yes, it's time for you and your partner to move back to the inner city in Georgia, to be among your kind. Your posts are not humorous--they reflect an ill person. No wonder why you couldn't even get a secure, well paying Government job. Fairfax County doesn't need you.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: kathy ()
Date: October 01, 2007 01:40PM

Citizen, you are typical of the gun loving, homophobic assholes I keep running into at restaurants. Last night at Famous Dave's, you would have fit right in. A table of gun nut republicans. With respect to my career, I'm in middle management of a tech development co. and probably make multiples of what your "secured" bureaucrat job pays. True I don't get to work at HUD or the Department of Interior LOL.

When we get President Clinton in office, you are FUCKED !
You will have lesbian women all around you. Your boss will be a lesbian. Get used to it bitch-boy, you are the new minority. We are taking over !

Shape up and accept reality !

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: October 01, 2007 01:52PM

Not only am I using my cell while driving. im texting this message to this site, with both hands OFF the wheen and steering with my knees. What was that bump?

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: October 01, 2007 02:09PM

that reminds me.. i'm getting that DVD player installed in my rear view mirror today..

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Fairfax Citizen ()
Date: October 01, 2007 05:51PM

I have to admit, Kathy, that you did make me laugh; however, you may have upset some of our finest citizens, the red-blooded Americans that have made this Nation and County so great. You may wish to check thread on "Concealed Carry Questions." I wonder if the Commonwealth has reciprocity with Georgia?

Caveat: You best not use your mobile phone at any time to avoid FCC fines for your abusing the air waves.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: KeepOnTruckin ()
Date: October 01, 2007 07:26PM

Re bdimag:

Dont watch porn on it, thats against the law according to the abusive driver fees. And remember, these fees are only for those peopel who repeatedly break the law with heavy offenses. This one is a misdemeanor 4.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: bdimag ()
Date: October 01, 2007 08:41PM

fuck it... nevermind then..

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: Gravis ()
Date: October 01, 2007 08:45PM

kathy Wrote:
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> When we get President Clinton in office, you are
> FUCKED !



LOL! how deluded are you? well to be fair, you may be naive.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."095042938540

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: no-cop ()
Date: October 02, 2007 01:27PM

I see Fairfax County Police talking on their cell phones when driving all the time.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: § ()
Date: October 02, 2007 04:57PM

The police text while driving as well. Dash-mounted computers are more dangerous than mobiles in my book. Similar to navigation systems. Really, the issue is not the phones or the devices, it's the people who can't walk (or talk) and chew gum (or drive) at the same time. -§

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: mariokart ()
Date: October 02, 2007 05:27PM

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> Re bdimag:
>
> Dont watch porn on it, thats against the law
> according to the abusive driver fees. And
> remember, these fees are only for those peopel who
> repeatedly break the law with heavy offenses. This
> one is a misdemeanor 4.


I played the 18 Wheels of Steel games, nice name. Being a trucker is actually fun, from my experiences with WOS.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: KeepOnTruckin ()
Date: October 02, 2007 08:14PM

I played a truck driving game at Dave and Busters once. Think it was called somthing like that. It was hard.


Remember, watching porn is a heavy offense commited only by the worst traffic offenders.

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: yo ()
Date: October 06, 2007 06:23PM

§ Wrote:
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> The police text while driving as well.
> Dash-mounted computers are more dangerous than
> mobiles in my book. Similar to navigation
> systems. Really, the issue is not the phones or
> the devices, it's the people who can't walk (or
> talk) and chew gum (or drive) at the same time. -§


Yep, typing on a dash-mounted compy, and talking on the cell phone at the sam time, that't realy Safe.

Ffairfax "Finest" at it's best... "what's a steering wheel? but I have these neat lights on top my cruiser..."

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Re: Do NOT Use Mobile Phone when Driving!
Posted by: 495 talker ()
Date: January 04, 2021 04:55PM

Screw that!

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