Great Lakes 4x4. The largest offroad forum in the Midwest banner

Texting and driving

3K views 49 replies 34 participants last post by  kickstand 
#1 ·
Does everybody do it? Holy fukc it's crazy. Every other car the driver is holding his her phone and trying to drive and text. I like the steering wheel texters the best. I don't get it. Is it that fukcing hard to stay off your phone while operating a motor vehicle? Driving behind people swerving and blowing rocks and shit up just because they are on their damn phone. All the accidents that happen because some idiot wasn't paying attention. I don't get how people are that attatched to a phone. Get off Facebook and twitter and all that other shit, your driving... NOBODY GIVES A FUKC. I'm sick of it. STAY OFF YOUR DAMN PHONE WHILE YOU DRIVE.

/vent.
 
#5 ·
pisses me off to, especially when im on my motorcycle, people that text and drive dont realize there toying with life's of others on the road until they hit that minivan or suv with the family of kids, hell i seen one lady in a van had three kids in the back and one in front texting and driving, i even tried yelling at her to pay attention to the damn road and she didnt even hear me, she could have killed those kids
 
#6 ·
I am guilty of this when I am on long road trips. Seems everyone in the car falls asleep on me so I start surfing the web.

I don't typically text and drive much though. I do like to get real close to the window of a texter and blow my horn. Espescially when it is really obvious.
 
#9 ·
I passed a semi truck on Interstate 80 a couple weekends ago that was weaving to the shoulder and back as I was coming up along side him. I looked to see him texting on a smart phone.
 
#11 ·
They passed a law about this in Nevada right before I moved back here. Cops could pull you over just for this instead of having another reason first. I wish they would outlaw it and talking on the phone without a hands free device here.
Like kickstand, when someone is driving slow as shit and i see them yacking on the phone i pull up next to them and lay on the horn.
In my old S10 i used to ride the dotted line next to texters hoping they would sideswipe me so I could get an F150.
 
#13 ·
I'll be honest, I do text while driving; in my defense though i don't look at my phone when typing the text. I use the t-9 trace thing so it guesses what i'm trying to type, gets pretty funny
 
#17 ·
I'm guilty of texting while driving too, but try and do it while stopped also, or when there's no traffic around. I definitely try and keep it to a miminum, don't really even have to look at my phone to do it, and get pissed at the idiots who suck at driving while doing it.
 
#36 ·
I saw a black lady in pontiac reading what appeared to be a bible while driving. I thought to myself, "Lady if you wanna be closer to God just do something stupid in front of me and i'll let you meet him." :sonicjay::sonicjay: she was swerving quite a bit.
 
#19 ·
It seems like the auto manufacturers could install something to block the signal while the car is in gear? I realize that would probably eliminate phone conversations while driving too, but we all managed to survive driving without cell phones before everybody above age 5 had one.
 
#28 ·
I see it all the time, I drive bus. One lady was caught by me, I opened my window and asked "what kinda phone is that? I'm in the market and..." She gave me some dirty looks and was chirping down the road, I saw lips moving. She never complained to my company though.
Another girl was doing it, i opened the window and asked "is that the iPhone?!?" She laughed at me and got away, I caught her again and she was still doing it an. Laughing when she saw me the second time.
 
#30 ·
I'm posting on Great Lakes 4x4 while driving back from spending the last of my EDT card on name brand foods and papers, at the Kroger store on my Obama smart phone. I paid for two weeks worth of car insurance a year ago, and park my car in the neighbors barn, because they have been trying to repo the damn thing.

I do not give a damn about your opinion.
 
#31 ·
I was on my way home from work last week, it was ~2am. I live in a rural area. I see a car pulled to the side of the road. Pulled up, Kicked on my overheads, rolled down my window. Asked the driver who appeared to be 17-18ish driving if he was ok. He said, "Yep, I'm good, just got a text, so I pulled over to read and reply to it."

I was surprised. Here he was, middle of the night, no cars, cops around, and this kid was responsible enough to pull over to check his phone. I said, "That's a refreshing sight to see, carry on, and good night."
 
#34 ·
There are apps that use gps and brick your phone if you are going over 10mph. It's intended for teen drivers, and there is a second "master" phone that can control the settings on the app. I think it can be set to just block calls/texts or to fully brick the phone. Pretty good peace of mind for parents with young drivers. I still have 10 years before my kids start driving and I don't even want to think about what they will have by then.
 
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Top