Thread: Texting while driving ...a must watch

galaxy s2 voice to text has bad grammer and spelling

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.

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!

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

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 ......."

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

Radiocommunications (Prohibition of PMTS Jamming Devices) Declaration 2011

AMTA - 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

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

Originally Posted by THE BOOGER

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

Radiocommunications (Prohibition of PMTS Jamming Devices) Declaration 2011

AMTA - 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

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

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.