Texting While Driving PSA

[namvet]

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[Mr. H.]

They're all driving on the wrong side of the road. That's why they crashed. Idiots.

 

[namvet]

the video was made in the UK

 

[Zoom-boing]

It isn't exactly breaking news that texting while driving is a bad idea. But a study released Monday night reveals just how dangerous it really can be.

After examining the behavior of truck drivers covering more than 6 million miles of road, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute concluded that people who send text messages while driving are 23 times more likely to be in a crash (or what they call a near-crash event) than nondistracted drivers.

To conduct the study, researchers mounted cameras inside drivers' vehicles. They studied where drivers' eyes were looking as they did various things, such as texting, dialing a cell phone, talking on a phone, and reaching for an object. Not surprisingly, the numbers (PDF) showed that the tasks that took people's eyes off the road caused the greatest amount of danger.

In crashes or near-crashes, texting took a driver's focus away from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds--enough time, the report point out, to travel the length of a football field at 55 mph.

By contrast, talking on a cell phone, which allows drivers to keep their eyes on the road, represented an increased risk of only 1.3 times that of a nondistracted driver.

The study's authors called into question past research that indicated driving while talking on a cell phone is as dangerous as driving drunk. While those results may have been found in lab tests and driving simulations, they say, the same was not true in real-world situations. They also noted that, contrary to popular belief, talking on a cell phone with a wireless headset is not substantially safer than talking on a regular handset. This is because the most significant factor as far as safety is concerned is to keep one's eyes on the road, the report said.

The institute says any task that takes a driver's eyes off the road should be avoided and suggests that all cell phone activity should be banned for newly licensed teenagers because they're more prone to using their phones

Study: Texting while driving increases crash risk 23-fold | Wireless - CNET News

 

[namvet]

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[alan1]

I can't text worth a damn after I've been drinking, so I always drink before driving so I won't try and text.

 

[namvet]

I can't text worth a damn after I've been drinking, so I always drink before driving so I won't try and text.

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[Polk]

I can't text worth a damn after I've been drinking, so I always drink before driving so I won't try and text.

 

[Luissa]

you are more likely to crash why texting then if you are high off of marijuana.

 

[alan1]

you are more likely to crash why texting then if you are high off of marijuana.

What if you are high on marijuana?

 

[alan1]

I can't text worth a damn after I've been drinking, so I always drink before driving so I won't try and text.

i don't even own one of the damned things. years ago i was using a cell phone going to work and almost piled em all up. i threw it out the window !!!!!

You should start your multi-tasking skills slowly.
Work up to it slowly.
I suggest walking and chewing gum at the same time as your first attempt.

 

[Zona]

I can't text worth a damn after I've been drinking, so I always drink before driving so I won't try and text.

i don't even own one of the damned things. years ago i was using a cell phone going to work and almost piled em all up. i threw it out the window !!!!!

After you threw i tout your window, it landed on the windshield of the car behind you and that caused a pile up. Damn, you just cant win.

 

[Kalam]

That slow motion bit was cheesy as hell.

 

[Zona]

I can't text worth a damn after I've been drinking, so I always drink before driving so I won't try and text.

i don't even own one of the damned things. years ago i was using a cell phone going to work and almost piled em all up. i threw it out the window !!!!!

You should start your multi-tasking skills slowly.
Work up to it slowly.
I suggest walking and chewing gum at the same time as your first attempt.

How much you want to bet he has an 8 track and refuses to buy one of them new fangled micro wave thingys.

 

[Immanuel]

I can't text worth a damn after I've been drinking, so I always drink before driving so I won't try and text.

i don't even own one of the damned things. years ago i was using a cell phone going to work and almost piled em all up. i threw it out the window !!!!!

After you threw i tout your window, it landed on the windshield of the car behind you and that caused a pile up. Damn, you just cant win.

The jerk behind him should not have been following so closely, so it is not his fault.

Immie

 

[Zona]

i don't even own one of the damned things. years ago i was using a cell phone going to work and almost piled em all up. i threw it out the window !!!!!

After you threw i tout your window, it landed on the windshield of the car behind you and that caused a pile up. Damn, you just cant win.

The jerk behind him should not have been following so closely, so it is not his fault.

Immie

Ok, mister literal, what if he was beside him when his windshield was smashed by this horrible anti communication extremist.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

GRAPHIC !!! on TV they said they want teens to see this - just might save lives

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anyone ever have to watch "blood on the highway" in driver's ed?

Kids will watch this and go "MEH that wont happen to ME, i'm invincible and special"

 

[namvet]

I can't text worth a damn after I've been drinking, so I always drink before driving so I won't try and text.

i don't even own one of the damned things. years ago i was using a cell phone going to work and almost piled em all up. i threw it out the window !!!!!

You should start your multi-tasking skills slowly.
Work up to it slowly.
I suggest walking and chewing gum at the same time as your first attempt.

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[alan1]

i don't even own one of the damned things. years ago i was using a cell phone going to work and almost piled em all up. i threw it out the window !!!!!

You should start your multi-tasking skills slowly.
Work up to it slowly.
I suggest walking and chewing gum at the same time as your first attempt.

famous last words. if the dead could talk.

I'm pretty sure my last words will be "Hold my beer and watch this".

 

[namvet]

You should start your multi-tasking skills slowly.
Work up to it slowly.
I suggest walking and chewing gum at the same time as your first attempt.

famous last words. if the dead could talk.

I'm pretty sure my last words will be "Hold my beer and watch this".

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