http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=12855076
It's only a matter of time until this happens in our town. Maybe the city council could copy their version?
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These scientists in Huntsville are smarter than our philosophers.
I think it should be a state law. It would be difficult, I think to try to keep track of what town has what law as you travel across the state. I suppose they'd have to post signage at the town line notifying drivers of the law...Just seems a lil' complicated.
Everybody's so hung up on texting. It's a NO-BRAINER! Common sense people! If you're looking at your phone-you're not looking where your couple-ton juggernaut is GOING.
Most states just ban the use of HANDHELD devices while driving. For any purpose. Texting or talking.
All the police officer has to see is you holding a phone to your ear or in front of your face to be able to cite you.
Good ol' slow Alabama will figure that out eventually.....after somebody important dies in a distracted-driving wreck.
Everybody's so hung up on texting. It's a NO-BRAINER! Common sense people! If you're looking at your phone-you're not looking where your couple-ton juggernaut is GOING.
Most states just ban the use of HANDHELD devices while driving. For any purpose. Texting or talking.
All the police officer has to see is you holding a phone to your ear or in front of your face to be able to cite you.
Good ol' slow Alabama will figure that out eventually.....after somebody important dies in a distracted-driving wreck.
pup,
I assume you ride a mule and holler when communicating to your couisns.
I assume you ride a mule and holler when communicating to your couisns.
Would you rather be killed by a car driven by a drunk, or one driven by someone texting?
[QUOTE]Originally posted by mad American:
Would you rather be killed by a car driven by a drunk, or one driven by someone texting?[/QUOTE
Could we just get both groups off the road?
Would you rather be killed by a car driven by a drunk, or one driven by someone texting?[/QUOTE
Could we just get both groups off the road?
http://www.ghsa.org/html/state.../cellphone_laws.html
Actually, "most" states don't ban the use. However, the above link gives exact numbers, and it is a several.
Actually, "most" states don't ban the use. However, the above link gives exact numbers, and it is a several.
quote:Originally posted by rramlimnn:
pup,
I assume you ride a mule and holler when communicating to your couisns.
Nope. Yer close though. I ride a motorcycle and either go see the people I need to communicate with or I wait til I get back home and call them on the landline. Don't need a cell phone. Anybody wants to talk to me they can either come find me or wait til I call them back.
Funny how the 'intellectual' types just can't live without their doodads. What kind of example are ya setting for your children? They don't even talk face to face anymore. (Watching 2 kids sitting next to each other TEXTING EACH OTHER FA CHRISSAKES!)
PUH-thetic.
quote:by mad american:
Would you rather be killed by a car driven by a drunk, or one driven by someone texting?
What's the difference? According to most LEOs I've discussed this problem with-from what they say they've observed, the cellphone-using driver is just as impaired as the drunk driver.
Distracted or drunk-a two-ton "Hey! Hiya doin?!" hurts equally bad.
my thoughts exactly Puppy. Ya think we might be related? 
Pup,
Since you brought it up.
I hope moter sickles are banned.
They are two wheels short of being safe.
99 percent of motorcycle injuries result from riding one.
Since you brought it up.
I hope moter sickles are banned.
They are two wheels short of being safe.
99 percent of motorcycle injuries result from riding one.
I have seen it all now. Traveling Florence Blvd home just now Ipulled in behind the car at the traffic light. Light changes car does not move, after a few seconds I toot the horn it then moves on to the next light so I switch lanes to get out from behind this car. As I get beside this car I see it is a lady with blue hair looking to me to be pushing 80 years old and she is texting. Well like I said I have seen it all now.
There is something about women and cell phones. I know men are guilty too but 90% of people on cell phones are women. Even when you are grocery shopping, they are on their cell phones and won't get out of your way because they are engrossed in their conversations. UGH!
motorcycles are no more dangerous than a car, you're just less likely to survive a crash compared to a car. they don't actually cause wrecks unless stupid people don't take the time to notice them coming. as far as texting, ban the hell out of it, ban talking on a phone for all i care.
I'm for banning texting or talking with one caveat. The time of the offense should have to be noted and correlated with cellphone records in order to eliminate possible errors by the gendarmes.
quote:Originally posted by rramlimnn:
Pup,
Since you brought it up.
I hope moter sickles are banned.
They are two wheels short of being safe.
99 percent of motorcycle injuries result from riding one.
Spoken like someone who doesn't ride. You'll never hear of a texting accident caused by a motorcyclist. Gotta keep both hands on the bars (usually-unless I'm hummin' ball bearings at some idiot who IS texting while driving that almost just killed me....).
Actually 99% of motorcycle injuries result from two things:
1.)The fifty year old man who watched the movie "Wild Hogs" and just got his MC endorsement last week who hasn't a clue what he's doing and rides his bike like he's driving a car (BIIIG mistake), and,
2.) The young squid who thinks he's invincible.
The first kind you can see coming a mile away. He'll be the one wobbling away from stoplights decked out head to toe in Official Harley-Davidson(tm) motorclothes while riding his shiny new Honda.
The second kind ya might not see coming (if you do get a glimpse-he'll be the one on the Ninja or the Gixxer wearing shorts, flip-flops and a tank-top with the visor on his helmet open). You usually only see them for a split-second as they whizz by you in traffic splitting lanes or pulling wheelies. There's a reason we call 'em "skin-crayons." or "squids."
The rest of us pretty much follow the rules and ride like the vulnerable motorists we are.
You cage drivers don't have to constantly think and plan for the dynamic environment you're in because what's the worst that can happen to ya? *Clunk*. You will never, ever hear of a motorcycle accident caused by an inattentive rider. A rider who made a bad judgement call, maybe, but never an inattentive one.
We can out think you, we can out maneuver you, we can out stop you, and we can outrun you, and we have lots of practice doing so.
30 years I've been riding. I've had some scrapes and close calls, but never wrecked.
Where I come from we didn't even wear helmets.
Helmets provide a false sense of security. Kinda like your two-ton cage does.
of course he doesn't ride. Riding a motorcycle takes an average IQ.
Sorry. Hadda add to that post above. I just can't resist when some boneheaded cager presents the "motorcycles are unsafe" argument.
Motorcycles are perfectly safe. Idiots are what's unsafe.
Motorcycles are perfectly safe. Idiots are what's unsafe.
Wonder how long it took to mop his stupid azz up off the highway?
quote:Originally posted by leo:
of course he doesn't ride. Riding a motorcycle takes an average IQ.
........and they don't make one stout enough for me. ....and besides, my mamma wouldn't let me have one and I've hated y'all for it all these years.
pup, think what you want but you are a menace to society on the contraption. you are constantly in the way of traffic, dodging in and out, tailgating and riding the yellow line like an idiot. pup, By the way were you at the Midnighters concert last eve with a good looking chick who rode her own bike behind yo wobbly ***. lol. pick your feet up.
Even if you don't see motorcycle riders texting, they can cause a disruption in the traffic flow as I discovered during a trip back from Panama City Bch just after the "Thunder Beach" rally last fall. The riders were two riders wide and stayed practically on the center line (the rider on the left and the rider on the right stayed on the other line). So when I tried to pass them on the left, I had to go out of my lane on the left (onto the shoulder) to get around them safely. We passed dozens of groups in this same formation. Very dangerous. I felt like they were going to scrape their peddle against my car!
My Dad was a rider for years, so I show plenty of respect on the road, but I thought this was dangerous. But I didn't see any texting or phone use!
My Dad was a rider for years, so I show plenty of respect on the road, but I thought this was dangerous. But I didn't see any texting or phone use!
quote:Originally posted by Everybody Has One:
Even if you don't see motorcycle riders texting, they can cause a disruption in the traffic flow as I discovered during a trip back from Panama City Bch just after the "Thunder Beach" rally last fall. The riders were two riders wide and stayed practically on the center line (the rider on the left and the rider on the right stayed on the other line). So when I tried to pass them on the left, I had to go out of my lane on the left (onto the shoulder) to get around them safely. We passed dozens of groups in this same formation. Very dangerous. I felt like they were going to scrape their peddle against my car!
My Dad was a rider for years, so I show plenty of respect on the road, but I thought this was dangerous. But I didn't see any texting or phone use!
Alabama law allows motorcycles "full use" of a lane. From outside line to center line is theirs...just like a car. And they can legally ride two abreast.
Section 32-5A-242
Operating motorcycles on roadways laned for traffic.
(a) All motorcycles are entitled to full use of a lane and no motor vehicle shall be driven in such a manner as to deprive any motorcycle of the full use of a lane. This subsection shall not apply to motorcycles operated two abreast in a single lane.
(b) The operator of a motorcycle shall not overtake and pass in the same lane occupied by the vehicle being overtaken.
(c) No person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of vehicles.
(d) Motorcycles shall not be operated more than two abreast in a single lane.
(e) Subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to police officers in the performance of their official duties.
I have no problem with ban on all handhelds...been behind too many folks who I thought were drunk but it turns out they were having a great conversation with their texting buddy while driving 55 mph.
Now just add in a ban on women putting on makeup while driving ....
Now just add in a ban on women putting on makeup while driving ....
I think you motorcyclist missed his point. He's saying if you allow the council to "modify our behavior" on wireless devices in our cars, which they clearly don't understand, they can just as easily drag out statistics, that motorcycle accidents cause more extensive damage or death to the operator per accident than automobiles, something like that, and ole Andy our Nanny can whip out an ordinance banning motorcycles in Florence.
This guy's power has to be curbed until he can be voted out of office.
This guy's power has to be curbed until he can be voted out of office.
Evil you are a genius.
Ok, I think anyone who condones using a cell phone (talking or texting) while driving has missed the point. The original use for a cell phone was for emergency use. Being broke down or having a wreck or in general in trouble somewhere a phone was not available. This way of thinking has changed to the point it has become dangerous for people to drive on our highways. Get a life, the term DWI needs to be brought back into use. DWI Driving While Impaired, if you are talking on a cell or texting you are IMPAIRED.
Hey Puppy sounds like bike envy. We will keep riding and they can keep just getting there.
Hey Puppy sounds like bike envy. We will keep riding and they can keep just getting there.
So….Opinion…..you are claiming technology is the culprit here; not a lack of education to recognize when a distraction is dangerous.
Accidents are the effect of distraction not technology.
Accidents are the effect of distraction not technology.
quote:Originally posted by OpinionsVary2:
The original use for a cell phone was for emergency use.
Gotta call BS on that.
quote:Originally posted by Sassy Kims:quote:Originally posted by Everybody Has One:
Even if you don't see motorcycle riders texting, they can cause a disruption in the traffic flow as I discovered during a trip back from Panama City Bch just after the "Thunder Beach" rally last fall. The riders were two riders wide and stayed practically on the center line (the rider on the left and the rider on the right stayed on the other line). So when I tried to pass them on the left, I had to go out of my lane on the left (onto the shoulder) to get around them safely. We passed dozens of groups in this same formation. Very dangerous. I felt like they were going to scrape their peddle against my car!
My Dad was a rider for years, so I show plenty of respect on the road, but I thought this was dangerous. But I didn't see any texting or phone use!
Alabama law allows motorcycles "full use" of a lane. From outside line to center line is theirs...just like a car. And they can legally ride two abreast.
Section 32-5A-242
Operating motorcycles on roadways laned for traffic.
(a) All motorcycles are entitled to full use of a lane and no motor vehicle shall be driven in such a manner as to deprive any motorcycle of the full use of a lane. This subsection shall not apply to motorcycles operated two abreast in a single lane.
(b) The operator of a motorcycle shall not overtake and pass in the same lane occupied by the vehicle being overtaken.
(c) No person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of vehicles.
(d) Motorcycles shall not be operated more than two abreast in a single lane.
(e) Subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to police officers in the performance of their official duties.
I'm not saying they shouldn't ride two abreast.. Just not so wide as to qualify as a "wide load". Still dangerous in my opinion.
So OpinionsVary2 is now making up silly history of technology. Nice.
Cellphone is just an extension of technological development for the telephone.
So by your narrow minded thinking, the cellphone was ruly invented so Alexander Graham Bell could Tell Watson to bring him a screwdriver.
Cellphone is just an extension of technological development for the telephone.
So by your narrow minded thinking, the cellphone was ruly invented so Alexander Graham Bell could Tell Watson to bring him a screwdriver.
Not quite. I remember the first cell phones. I had one, and you were lucky to even get a signal. Yes they were for emergency use. They were not for YOUR convenience to chit cat with your girlfriend or you buddies. It sure wasn’t so you could surf the web or text to all your BFF’s. Just because you think technology is kewl doesn’t mean it is right. Nor does it give you the right to endanger anyone’s life so you can text, talk or act like an idiot.