Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,308 lives in 2022

California legislator has introduced a bill requiring new cars to beep if you're doing 10 over or faster. But California bans speed cameras. (Recently we started a pilot program in a few big cities.)

Heh. Interestingly enough. Introducing a speed limit in Germany is debated as fiercly as introducing gun control in the US. I guess we also have freedom ( take the gas Pedal from my cold dead feet!) tm issues.

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Originally Posted by MontuckyFried

"I know teh solution! Let's stick giant iPads in the console and replace gauges with hudge screens!"
-the Auto Industry

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Preach brotha!

Fucking infotainment bullshit.
Not to mention some cars requiring multiple screen clicks to do a simple task like adjusting the climate control. Gimme knobs and buttons for basic tasks.

When I worked for the mother corp in the 80's and 90's well before I-phones we carried these terminals LCD display/ keyboard/ about 20K bytes of info we could get calls, close calls, order parts, submit completed work, send messages to others who had a brick SO do all the service stuff by RF

I think they were officaly called portable terminals or PT's but they were about the size and weight of a small brick so it was refered to as " the brick" as in I will brick you the info/ I will send you that call on the brick/ I will brick you to go for coffee, it was super handy

I found mine would wedge quite solidly between the windshield of my tercel and top of the dash so i could operate it like a heads up display just like Maverick and Jester which was much less distracted than wanking about with an I-phone in one hand

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

I don't like to call out other maggots on just about anything, but I can't imagine wasting my time on creating this entire thread in response to being called out by others for posting a bunch of completely insensitive whataboutism garbage in response to a post about another senseless school shooting that killed 2 students and 2 teachers and wounded many more.

Maybe push back from the keyboard for a moment and evaluate your priorities.

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Well said, thank you

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Originally Posted by truckeelocal

Machines are moar than people too.

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FIFY

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Originally Posted by truckeelocal

Machines are moar than people too.

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FIFY

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Originally Posted by Thaleia

Distracted driving deaths in the US, per 100,000 people - 89

Distracted driving deaths in the Canada, per 100,000 people - 89


Gun deaths in the US, per 100,000 people - 4.054

Gun deaths in the Canada, per 100,000 people - 0.889

Anything stand out to you here exs?

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Originally Posted by subtle plague

Heh. Interestingly enough. Introducing a speed limit in Germany is debated as fiercly as introducing gun control in the US. I guess we also have freedom ( take the gas Pedal from my cold dead feet!) tm issues.

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Don't mess with Germans and their Autobahn . I was shocked at the number of mass fatalities from high speed pile ups on the Autobahn when I was living in Germany. But then one evening while driving 140 KPH in Bavaria when the fog rolled in, and getting passed by the big bad Bimmers and Benzes doing 170-180 KPH that couldn't see more than 30 meters n front of them, I understood why crashes like that happen.

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Originally Posted by ex-powderbroker

fucking gif embed sucks

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I think you're doing something wrong, perhaps...

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thanks!!

It doesn't have to be like this.