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Old July 21st 05, 04:14 PM
Harry K
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Dave Head wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2005 00:24:00 GMT, Jim Yanik .> wrote:
>
> >Dave Head > wrote in
> :
> >
> >
> >> Just your wildly active imagination that everyone is going to
> >> fly off the road and crash if they talk on a cell phone. Hey - if
> >> driving is so damn dangerous, can I breath while I drive? How about
> >> blink? This stuff is silly - the task isn't that hard. All you have
> >> to do is know how to pay attention to the most important stuff while
> >> incidentally doing some other stuff. It can be done, but has to be
> >> practiced.
> >>
> >> Dave Head
> >>
> >>>Chris
> >>
> >>

> >
> >You and many others fail to see the difference between talking on the CP in
> >urban driving conditions,and on the open highways.

>
> Who said anything about urban/suburban/rural driving conditions? The
> contention here by all the Safety Nazis / Chicken Littles is that we're all
> gonna die if we talk on the CP while driving. If that weren't the case, they
> wouldn't be advocating a nationwide ban on using cell phones in cars, which is
> exactly where they've been taking this.
>
> Dave Head


And I hope they succeed. There are enough idiots on the road who can't
drive even without the distraction of yakking on a piece of ear candy.
Your description of what you use one for is very illumative.

Harry K

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