Cell phone use

[Fox Mike]

Everyone needs to see this one, and it only takes a minute!
A Hong Kong movie theater asks its patrons to leave their cell phones ON when they enter the movie. Using that, Volkswagen made an eye opening ad... After viewing, please forward

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JHixeIr_6BM?rel=0&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3

 

[Slyk Willy]

I get it. As a motorcycle rider, I see it all the time, (car) drivers doing make-up, eat b'fast, texting, anything BUT driving. I'm really glad that VW is doing this. should be all over the place.
I cringe whenever I hear "I didn't see him" when trying to justify running over a M/C rider. It's your JOB to see 'em. Would we accept that "defense" If a person said, "I didn't see that little kid on his bike" or "I didn't see that lil' ole lady crossing the street". I'm much larger on my bike than both of those examples.
There NOW you got me started...

 

[gmartinnc]

Got behind a scooter the other day. He was wobbling all over the lane and I was almost afraid to pass him. When I finally got a chance I saw that he was wobbling because he was texting.
And they say guns are dangerous.

 

[Bull Barrel]

I love the "start seeing motorcycles" bumper stickers.

If you can't see a m/c how ya gonna see that little sticker?

What's bad about the "I didn't see the m/c" statement is 99% of the time they look straight at you and even make eye contact before they pull out in front of you.

I still want twin .50s mounted on the bikes...fore and aft.

 

[Bucks Owin]

Got behind a scooter the other day. He was wobbling all over the lane and I was almost afraid to pass him. When I finally got a chance I saw that he was wobbling because he was texting.
And they say guns are dangerous.

That's OK, anyone that dumb will soon become a statistic. The gene pool improves! :wink:

 

[george preston]

I once was a bike rider. Had a triumph bonneville. Had a lady pull out of a parking lot right in front of me and stop. Locked it up and almost went over her hood. I have two kids under 10 so I decided to give up riding after that.

I've also had a guy on a HD bagger rear end me at a stop light while I was in my F150. Barely felt him nudge my truck. He didn't fare so well.

Also had a pack of 20 or so guys on sports bikes surround my truck while doing 70 on the freeway. Some of them where even slapping my hood and truck bed. Called 911 and told them what was going on. Tried slowing down but they kept at it so I locked up the brakes and put 4 of them on the ground. Lucky for me that FHP had received other reports of this going on and an officer headed the other way saw the whole thing. Think he ticketed them for careless driving

 

[Fox Mike]

I once was a bike rider. Had a triumph bonneville. Had a lady pull out of a parking lot right in front of me and stop. Locked it up and almost went over her hood. I have two kids under 10 so I decided to give up riding after that.

I've also had a guy on a HD bagger rear end me at a stop light while I was in my F150. Barely felt him nudge my truck. He didn't fare so well.

Also had a pack of 20 or so guys on sports bikes surround my truck while doing 70 on the freeway. Some of them where even slapping my hood and truck bed. Called 911 and told them what was going on. Tried slowing down but they kept at it so I locked up the brakes and put 4 of them on the ground. Lucky for me that FHP had received other reports of this going on and an officer headed the other way saw the whole thing. Think he ticketed them for careless driving

And all this has what to do with cell phone use while driving; which is what the thread is all about? :?: :roll:

 

[737tdi]

That is an awesome idea. It should be played in every theatre and put out on commercial TV. Thanks VW. Notice TDI in my name, hahhh. Laughing. Oh and right handed drive is just dumb.

Karl

 

[Colonialgirl]

RE: Motorcycles;
Yeah, sure MC riders so innocent.
I was crossing Tampa Bay on the Howard-Franklin bridge doing around 70 mph in a Chevvie pickup; Saw some slow traffic in the lane ahead of me, put on the turn signal, checked the Rear View mirror, It was CLEAR behind me in the next lane; Was about half way into the lane when some IDIOT on a crotch rocket barely missed my back end and went roaring by at about 90-100 mph+ . As I watched, he continued to weave in and out of traffic, roaring up behind someone before jumping into an open narrow space in the next lane. I don't HOW FAR back he was when I started my lane change, BUT definitely NOT IN VIEW. I kept expecting to find him at the end of a long red smear further up the road.
If he had hit the back end of my pickup, his bike would have plowed all the way to the back of the cab and HE would have been about 200 yards down the road.
He wasn't the first idiot biker I saw while crossing that bridge, some seemed to think it was a race course with obstacles on four wheels.

Note: video link posted to all my friends on email and another web group too.

 

[Colonialgirl]

That is an awesome idea. It should be played in every theatre and put out on commercial TV. Thanks VW. Notice TDI in my name, hahhh. Laughing. Oh and right handed drive is just dumb.

Karl

NOT if you are in England; Then it makes perfect sense !!

 

[george preston]

Just pointing out that bikers can be at fault. It's not alway the 4 wheelers not paying attention that causes the problems. I figured the other point of view was implied. My bad. Sorry

 

[exavid]

There are more bad auto drivers than motorcyclists. That's because there are many more cars than motorcycles on the roads. Not virtuous motorcyclists. Not knocking riders, I've been one for a bit over 55 years so far.

 

[gramps]

The video was a very graphic way to make a point! Good on VW. I have owned and ridden MC. Keeping the front light on is great, but high beams? Give me a break it hurts my eyes!
gramps

 

[blume357]

how did they get everyones phone to ring? or was it just a fake ring tone.... since most folks with smart phones have a specific ring tone they would not be answering the generic ring but looking around to see who's phone was ringing and so I guess prove the same point.

 

[Robes]

Would not work for me,... I don't carry a cell phone! Electric leash.

 

[Selena]

Hmmm, kind of like a certain TOB I take to town grocery shopping on occasion...

If you are going to talk, talk. If you are going to drive, drive. One or the other!

 

[Pat-inCO]

I think it is past time for ALL cell phones to do an auto-disable when they
are moving at more than 20mph.

Text disable . . . over 3mph.

If the call is important, get off the road.
It sure works for me. :roll:

 

[Dan in MI]

how did they get everyones phone to ring? or was it just a fake ring tone.... since most folks with smart phones have a specific ring tone they would not be answering the generic ring but looking around to see who's phone was ringing and so I guess prove the same point.

I beleive I read somewhere that the poeple voluntarily gave their number as part of the show. Probably get a free ticket if you participate by doing so.

 

[Fox Mike]

how did they get everyones phone to ring? or was it just a fake ring tone.... since most folks with smart phones have a specific ring tone they would not be answering the generic ring but looking around to see who's phone was ringing and so I guess prove the same point.

I beleive I read somewhere that the poeple voluntarily gave their number as part of the show. Probably get a free ticket if you participate by doing so.

Watch the movie and about 15 seconds in it shows the unit they used to make the calls.

 

[Jeepnik]

A security guard at one of the facilities I frequent and I were talking and as we looked out the window, one of the engineers was texting and walking. As we watched, he walked right into the rear of an "ORANGE" maintenance cart. The fell face forward into the cart and ended up with a bloody nose and blackened eye.

The guard said that those types of folks are the "walking dead". Pretty much nailed it on that one. Oh, and the engineer claimed it as an "industrial" accident and got away with it. Ever wonder why companies have to pay such high insurance premiums.

At another facility, they have monitors located through out the facility. After several "near misses" (never figured out what a near miss was, cus if it didn't happen, it means that it didn't happen, then again, I'm sorta strange about reality), they put up a well made video about texting or talking on cell phones as one walked or drove around the facility. Did it "cure" the walking dead? Nope, seem a number of the upper management folks wandering around with their head down and no clue what was going on around them.

Too bad we've removed natural selection from the playing field. If we hadn't, these folks would have died young and not been allowed to breed. Had that happened, the average IQ of the species would no doubt be much higher, and the human race would have evolved by leaps and bounds.

 

[Fox Mike]

A security guard at one of the facilities I frequent and I were talking and as we looked out the window, one of the engineers was texting and walking. As we watched, he walked right into the rear of an "ORANGE" maintenance cart. The fell face forward into the cart and ended up with a bloody nose and blackened eye.

The guard said that those types of folks are the "walking dead". Pretty much nailed it on that one. Oh, and the engineer claimed it as an "industrial" accident and got away with it. Ever wonder why companies have to pay such high insurance premiums.

I mentioned this in another thread sometime back, but the wife and I were leaving a restaurant one evening and as we were walking down the pathway to the car a young lady and her mom were approaching. The girl was 'head down' and busy texting...and walked right into me. I purposely did NOT move out of her way. Saw what was about to happen and turned as though I was speaking to the wife. She never even said "Sorry, Oops, My mistake" or anything else. Just turned around me and went on her way...still looking at the 'whatever' in her hand.
I am NOT an Oprah fan by any stretch of the imagination but a good friend of ours was a guest there and spoke of losing their son because of texting and driving.
My grandson was "tee boned" and his car totaled by a girl texting and driving. Luckily she stove in the passenger's door and quarter panel and not his side. He walked away without any injuries.
There is a time and place to use the cell phone and text, and a moving car isn't one of them.

 

[gmartinnc]

I remember reading about a car accident not long ago involving a young lady who was driving, and had lost her life.
Her cell phone record revealed that in the last moments of her life, she had been texting someone about a song she was listening to and about how good it made her feel.