Food for thought...

**FORD RECOVERY EXPERT** · 08-28-2009, 05:06 PM

Instead of bullshit HCR and Internet siezing efforts....

Lets design cell phones that use GPS to detect high speed (say 5 mph+) movement, and then will disable the ability to text????

As an EMS/FF We respond to dozens of call a year that involve texting while driving.

Why can't we focus on important lifesaving matters like these, and less on how to make the working population financially responsible for the accidents/injuries caused by these acts????

**pajeff02** · 08-28-2009, 05:15 PM

It is getting kind of scary driving these days. All the time I see people with their heads down, or their phone held up in front of their face, (I have a truck for a DD -- so it is easy to see) and they are texting while driving. I have had quite a few "lane wanderer" encounters in the past two years or so.

**FORD RECOVERY EXPERT** · 08-28-2009, 05:27 PM

The British are handling it....

Britian PSA

**86 IROC-Z** · 08-28-2009, 05:49 PM

has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

**Frazier** · 08-28-2009, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

English?

**Neo** · 08-28-2009, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by FORD RECOVERY EXPERT

Instead of bullshit HCR and Internet siezing efforts....

Lets design cell phones that use GPS to detect high speed (say 5 mph+) movement, and then will disable the ability to text????

As an EMS/FF We respond to dozens of call a year that involve texting while driving.

Why can't we focus on important lifesaving matters like these, and less on how to make the working population financially responsible for the accidents/injuries caused by these acts????

Would have to be over 5 MPH...I jog at about 9 or 10 i believe and can still text pretty well without losing my way.

Maybe like 20-25?

**86 IROC-Z** · 08-28-2009, 06:12 PM

Yeah I get up to like 30mph on the stationary bike at the gym... no way it would work.

**Neo** · 08-28-2009, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

Yeah I get up to like 30mph on the stationary bike at the gym... no way it would work.

Yeah but would you text when you're flying ass like that on the street? Doubt it

**FORD RECOVERY EXPERT** · 08-28-2009, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by Neo

Would have to be over 5 MPH...I jog at about 9 or 10 i believe and can still text pretty well without losing my way.

Maybe like 20-25?

School zones are the #1 affected area, besides, if you are jogging, at 9-10 mph, you dont need to be texting anyway, you should be watching out for other asshats who arent paying attention to you...

**86 IROC-Z** · 08-28-2009, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by Neo

Yeah but would you text when you're flying ass like that on the street? Doubt it

lol wats the difference between the gym bike and riding on the road???

**Neo** · 08-28-2009, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

lol wats the difference between the gym bike and riding on the road???

Ummmm....on one you're stationary and actually not moving at all. On the other you're in a public street going 30 MPH with pedestrians to look out for, and you have to know where you're going and see where you're going.

On a stationary bike, it wouldnt make a difference. I think FRE was saying to have a GPS that would calculate how fast you were travelling, as in ACTUALLY travelling, not just how fast your legs are moving

**86 IROC-Z** · 08-28-2009, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by Neo

Ummmm....on one you're stationary and actually not moving at all. On the other you're in a public street going 30 MPH with pedestrians to look out for, and you have to know where you're going and see where you're going.

On a stationary bike, it wouldnt make a difference. I think FRE was saying to have a GPS that would calculate how fast you were travelling, as in ACTUALLY travelling, not just how fast your legs are moving

but I'm going 30 mph?

**bodyman5000** · 08-28-2009, 09:52 PM

Kid in back seat....

Mom, slow down I can't text back here.

Try again.

**FORD RECOVERY EXPERT** · 08-28-2009, 09:57 PM

Sorry for the kids bitch ass luck.... Since when should we have to cater our lives/property to a kid who wants to text???

**86 IROC-Z** · 08-28-2009, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by FORD RECOVERY EXPERT

Sorry for the kids bitch ass luck.... Since when should we have to cater our lives/property to a kid who wants to text???

I'll be damned if some pro-safety legislature stops me from sending "not much" in response to my friends "wuts up" when I'm in the back seat of my moms minivan thats not fukkin fair MAKES ME WANNA RAAGGGGEEEEE

**Zapper2003** · 08-29-2009, 04:23 AM

rotflasaurusrex

**pajeff02** · 08-29-2009, 04:24 AM

Originally Posted by FORD RECOVERY EXPERT

Sorry for the kids bitch ass luck.... Since when should we have to cater our lives/property to a kid who wants to text???

Agree.

**FORD RECOVERY EXPERT** · 08-29-2009, 07:17 AM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

I'll be damned if some pro-safety legislature stops me from sending "not much" in response to my friends "wuts up" when I'm in the back seat of my moms minivan thats not fukkin fair MAKES ME WANNA RAAGGGGEEEEE

You crack me up....

**FORD RECOVERY EXPERT** · 08-29-2009, 07:19 AM

Originally Posted by bodyman5000

Kid in back seat....

Mom, slow down I can't text back here.

Try again.

We lived through our entire childhoods without the ability to "text"....

Surely todays brats can survive the ride to school or walmart.

**pajeff02** · 08-29-2009, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by FORD RECOVERY EXPERT

We lived through our entire childhoods without the ability to "text"....

Surely todays brats can survive the ride to school or walmart.

I tell my daughter just about the same thing -- "I was 35 when I bought my first cell phone. If I made it all the way through school without one, so can you." This is when I take it away from her and she tries to argue that she needs to have it.