Texting while driving ...a must watch

[Gary S11]

PSA Texting while Driving U.K. Ad [HD] - YouTube (http://youtu.be/R0LCmStIw9E)

If this doesn't work can some one who is more computer savy the me turn this into a link ....Gary

[MEANZ06]

PSA Texting while Driving U.K. Ad [HD].mp4 - YouTube

Texting while driving is a big problem here too with the youngsters... :(

[THE BOOGER]

Link works hope the ad does too:)

Can see it failing already unfortunatly read some of the posts on youtube from the kids:(



LittleHopeAndFaithX 4 days ago


it's not just teenagers who text and drive, iv seen so many adults do the exact same thing.


"I see this a trend in adults, if something goes wrong they blame the teens, or say "well mostly teens do it." Because they like using the "They are so young and stupid, they know nothing, they do everything wrong."

And Yes I have seen way more adults texting and driving than teens."

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Not saying its ok for adults, but they seem to be saying they do so can we:(

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I know that yesterday the driver in front of me had his head down moving about 30KPH while the lane next to us kept moving and a 100M gap appeared in front of him. Yes we missed the traffic lights, while about 20 cars and 2 semi trailers made it through the lights. Then the lights changed, his head was up and he was off like a startled rabbit. Don't tell me he wasn't txt ing! :nazilock:

[newhue]

Holy **** Meanz, that's very moving.

Perhaps everyone that gets a licence should be made to watch one of these regarding, speed, alcohol, and texting.

[MEANZ06]

Holy **** Meanz, that's very moving.

Perhaps everyone that gets a licence should be made to watch one of these regarding, speed, alcohol, and texting.

Wasn't my thread/link, it's Gary S11's I merely embedded it. Still, a very powerful message non-the-less...

[Eevo]

it will never happen to me

that vid is several years old.

[Landy Smurf]

they showed that video to us in high school. brought a few tears to a few eyes especially as the year above us there had been a few die from car crashes. it is something that needs alot of attention though. i make sure i never do anything with the mobile while driving as it is not worth the risk of checking a message for your life

[AndrewGJones]

In support of those teenagers comments, I've been guilty of it. Not any more though, These days I'm busy concentrating on what are those extra sounds my turbo is making and trying to time the gear changes to minimise the passive smoking those following me are subject too...

great reminder though, pity the film maker didn't show the friends get packed in body bags for final effect. That would be very hard to live with, and the thing is we all probably know of someone (or someone who knows someone...) who is living with it. It isn't make believe that's for sure.

[MEANZ06]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/01/39.jpg


Hmmm... :o

[AndrewGJones]

sorry, I have a very boring job. cheap jokes are all I have to get me through. I'll pull over and give myself a stern talking too...

[THE BOOGER]

galaxy s2 voice to text has bad grammer:wasntme: and spelling

[AndrewGJones]

seriously though, i see more adults doing it that teenagers. either that or talking on the phone without hands free. See it all the time. This morning infact i actually took note of one woman happily (she was laughing) chatting away on the phone.

Makes me wonder if people realise being alive is a fleeting thing at best; to potentially throw it away for a conversation (probably a useless one at that) is amazing. I'm glad to ignore the phone when driving, one less person to give me hassles about nothing per day adds up, and then ignoring the voicemail keeps me sane for the rest of the day.

i read about Napoleon's habit of of putting urgent notes in his pocket for 3 days a while back. If it is really urgent, someone will sort it out, if it still needs attention, do it then.

[Grover-98]

After 3 years as a Firefighter for NSWFB/FRNSW i can honestly say seeing these sorts of things regardless of cause be it; Texting, Drinking, Drugs, Emotions, Fatigue and sometimes simple driver! error they effect you and change your driving habits!

[bobslandies]

I realise this suggestion will not go down so well and I'm not trolling.

I used to find it amazing that in a local major shopping centre with at least fifty mobs flogging phones (all the usual big companies and lots of agents, hangers-on etc) that if you were in the centre's carpark there was absolutely no signal - so much for customer support! What I'm getting at it must be a pretty weak network.

It's about time that the Telecommunications giants and the marketers were pulled into gear as they are utterly opposed to the following.

Why can't a prison be able to exclude incoming/outgoing phonecalls? A theatre? A restaurant? Lots of professions are prevented from using mobiles - bus drivers for instance. You are asked to please switch them off in hospitals, etc. How would local jammers work? Someone with the technical knowledge please comment.

The technology obviously exists. If it can be used at an international conference (think it was the last APEC) where motorcades were surrounded by a "bubble" to stop terrorist attacks with cheap mobile phone technology and the whole network can be turned off for "National Security" then why cannot a sophisticated device be just fitted into a vehicle to stop communications coming in our going out - ie - NO SERVICE when driving unless the phone is in a cradle with connection to an outside aerial. Maybe something like Bluetooth needing to be used inside vehicles or you can't make or receive a call? And that goes for passengers too.

Bob

[Blknight.aus]

Its missing one thing, well maybe two

"the following is a realistic re-creation of a real event, the place is real, the people were real, names and faces have been omitted and changed to maintain the deceased's dignity

"the previous footage was a realistic ......."

[THE BOOGER]

Mobile phone jammers are around a work well but are prohibited in australia

Radiocommunications (Prohibition of PMTS Jamming Devices) Declaration 2011 (http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2011L00346)

AMTA - Why mobile phone jammers are prohibited (http://www.amta.org.au/articles/Why.mobile.phone.jammers.are.prohibited)

Strangly one of the reason for not using them is incase mums are running late to pick up kids she can ring them and let them know:confused:

Got it she pulls over to use the phone and the kids are not in school;)

[bobslandies]

Mobile phone jammers are around a work well but are prohibited in australia

Radiocommunications (Prohibition of PMTS Jamming Devices) Declaration 2011 (http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2011L00346)

AMTA - Why mobile phone jammers are prohibited (http://www.amta.org.au/articles/Why.mobile.phone.jammers.are.prohibited)

Strangly one of the reason for not using them is incase mums are running late to pick up kids she can ring them and let them know:confused:

Got it she pulls over to use the phone and the kids are not in school;)

Yes Geoff,

That is exactly why I said the telcos are opposed to it! They would have come up with that spin about the mum's concerns too and probably "advised" and lobbied the public servants to "influence" the regulatory bodies - instead of the other way round.

Eventually smoking will be banned in all vehicles, with or without passengers, simply because smoking also causes accidents like the depicted texting film, besides igniting spilled fuel after an accident.
Not to mention people wearing every degree of full headsets while driving or as pedestrians - just to listen to maybe the last music they will ever hear.

Bob

[sheerluck]

Very hard hitting ad.

However, to be critical, the silver car with the teenagers in it was a Ford Ka. They were made out of sticky backed plastic and cardboard. Any impact at what appeared to be a combined speed of around 80-100kph would have destroyed it and those within.

Doesn't make it any better at all, just saying. :(

[mike_ie]

They did a range of these ads in Ireland when I was in my late teens/early 20s. Think they were pretty effective in making teenagers far more aware of road safety. Generally now it's the generation in their 50s or so that are the problem - those who grew up in a world where it was alright to have a few pints and drive home from the pub afterwards, seatbelts were an optional extra, etc...

Hard-hitting car crash video - YouTube

Rear Passenger Seatbelt - YouTube

Don't Drink And Drive! - YouTube

[AndrewGJones]

heaps of quotable lines in this one;

Legend - YouTube