Next time you are busy yaking and a 44 tonner comes your way a bit on the wrong side or something like that, call me from your hospital bed if you survive. And I might point out that at 100 kph and 90 kph in a closing situation thats 190 kph that you are negotiating. Roughly 52 meters per second. Lot of ground if you are distracted.

Super drivers eh.
Yeh right.

Using a phone safely while driving is quite simple. You just need to keep conversations short, to the point and avoid times and places where there is greater risk. For example, on my trips between Russell and Auckland there are many times when, short of a cow being fired out of a cannon at me, there is no driver action necessary other than to continue straight ahead.

Those who can’t figure out where and when it is safe to do what are the stupid ones, and shouldn’t be on the road. Happily, they usually kill themselves fairly quickly anyway or hardly drive at all. That doesn’t seem to stop them having silly opinions about safety.

Compare that to driving along, both hands on the wheel, looking straight out the window, having a conversation. If people cannot drive and have a hands free conversation (whether with a cellphone caller or a passenger, and I’ve yet to hear a convincing argument as to the difference) then their “RAM”, since we’re using that analogy, must be about as numerous and as fast as a ZX81. The fact is some of us came with more pre-installed.

Driving at 100kph or on a busy street just ain’t minimal risk. Well not in my book. It takesalmost all of your concentration if you want to survive tonne of solid steel don’t step lightly when you challange them.

Viking, your own reasoning is pathetic. Emergency services and police all use communications while driving without killing other road users. Managing risk is what needs to be taught rather than trying to ban all minor risks and winding up with drivers who can’t manage any risk and shouldn’t be allowed out without their nurse.
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Well perhaps you may have noticed the number of crashed police cars and maybe you will have noticed that most police cars have radio rather than needing to hold a phone to your ear.
You will also have noticed that fire engines and most ambulances these days have a driver and a navigator. Seldom one to a vehicle and more.
The fact remains your RAM (random access memeory) is just like a computers. can’t do two tasks at once.

Those that use cellphones when driving a fucking stupid bastards without brains.worse at 100kph.

What was he thinking of when he drove off the cliff?

A mate had that happen to him. He said that the problem is it becomes increasingly distracting, but imperceptibly, so that you don’t notice you are distracted until you’re heading for the cliff.

Fuck those that drive and use cellphones. You should have your car confiscated.

But because your reasoning ability to rationlize is so pathetic you are unable consider that you do have an issue with your brain and your life..

There’s a good 30 percent of the population who are feral scofflaws and they need to be kept off the road.

The police should be given the power to viciously club anyone caught texting and driving.

“…..Why not ban fixing your hair, changing the radio, eating, drinking in cars for drivers? They are all distractions. Far better would have been a focus on safe driving and use the general careless driving laws to get people who drive unsafely due to a cellphone etc…”

If you needed to concentrate on drinking something to the same level that you would need to concentrate on useing a mobile, then you may have a problem David! Dementia maybe?

That aside, not all careless driving is accident free, some careless driving causes accidents in the ‘blink of an eye’ and if police think that they could police that, then well, they’re bloody idiots.

And all covered already under the banner of ‘careless driving’.

>An educational campaign would be better than a ban.

Are you suggesting more of those lovely public service TV adverts?!