Saga of Cell Phone Accident...
Well, on our way from Nevada to Oregon we recently got into an accident. A woman driving a borrowed car while on a cell phone rammed into my Ram’s drivers side alloy dually, then sheared off the drive...
Forum Discussion
GeoBoy wrote:3 tons wrote:
Since phones have built-in GPS, why not disable them when they are in motion, say above 10 mph - people need far fewer distractions, and there was a time when we did just fine without them...
If the wireless phone companies had the intestinal fortitude to stop distracted driving caused by wireless devices, they could do it in a heartbeat, and the cut off starts at 1 mph.
I don’t want to hear, “what about the passengers”, tough! What did we do before wireless devices, lets see, take in the scenery, read a book and oh yeah have intelligent conversations.
Yep the wireless companies are incentivized to keep the phones enabled, regardless of the risk to others - what’s needed is a huge reset - somehow, we’d all find a way to adapt...A faraday screen embedded in every car would save lives - the alternative is an actual matter of highway roulette...
