If you text and drive

**Dave19642006** · 08-25-2009, 06:16 PM

Disturbing PSA Texting and Driving Video

**ISUKyro** · 08-25-2009, 06:19 PM

Meh, they we're woman drivers, it was gonna happen even if they wern't txting

(and I'll duck for cover now)

**ianoconnor** · 08-25-2009, 06:20 PM

Seems excessive.

**alarson** · 08-25-2009, 06:25 PM

The problem i have lately is that a lot of it is based of a study from about 5 years ago.. where if you were texting you HAD to be looking at the phone.. as it was T9 at best. I have a qwerty keyboard on my phone and can text very easily without looking away from the road. No more dangerous than a lot of other things people do in the car.

**motorCYcle** · 08-25-2009, 06:27 PM

Pretty sure this was not the intended message...

**CyGal** · 08-25-2009, 06:28 PM

The problem wasn't that she was texting while driving, it was that she was driving from the wrong side of the car!!

**richey24** · 08-25-2009, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by alarson83

The problem i have lately is that a lot of it is based of a study from about 5 years ago.. where if you were texting you HAD to be looking at the phone.. as it was T9 at best. I have a qwerty keyboard on my phone and can text very easily without looking away from the road. No more dangerous than a lot of other things people do in the car.

Why would a QWERTY keyboard make a difference?

**TarHeelHawk** · 08-25-2009, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Dave19642006

Disturbing PSA Texting and Driving Video

Before I click that link, was that PSA produced in Canada?

**alarson** · 08-25-2009, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by richey24

Why would a QWERTY keyboard make a difference?

can type by feel, one button=one character (as opposed to having to press one button 3-4 times and having to constantly look down at the screen to make sure you hit the right letter and not one of the others on that button)

**richey24** · 08-25-2009, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by alarson83

can type by feel, one button=one character (as opposed to having to press one button 3-4 times and having to constantly look down at the screen to make sure you hit the right letter and not one of the others on that button)

qwerty is only easier because that's what you're used to. Buttons are buttons, actually I could see a T9 system being easier to do by feel because there are less buttons.

**richey24** · 08-25-2009, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by TarHeelHawk

Before I click that link, was that PSA produced in Canada?

I think Europe somewhere, Wales maybe.

**TarHeelHawk** · 08-25-2009, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by richey24

I think Europe somewhere, Wales maybe.

I remember a PSA that was produced in Canada that involved being safe. A female cook was talking about her fiance, and how her wedding was one out of a storybook, and how her fiance was just perfect. The wedding was in a week. Anyway, she picked up a pot of boiling water off the stove, and was turning to take it wherever it needed to go when she slipped on a puddle on the floor. The pot went in the air, and the water landed on her face. Close-up shots of her burned skin, her grabbing her face in pain and screaming followed. It almost made me throw up.

The message was to clean up your mess. If the PSA in this thread is anything like that one, I'll respectfully decline.

**Aclone** · 08-25-2009, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by alarson83

can type by feel, one button=one character (as opposed to having to press one button 3-4 times and having to constantly look down at the screen to make sure you hit the right letter and not one of the others on that button)

So you don't have to look down to read the incoming texts?

IMO, if you are using a cell in any manner while driving, you are being stupid.

**richey24** · 08-25-2009, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by TarHeelHawk

I remember a PSA that was produced in Canada that involved being safe. A female cook was talking about her fiance, and how her wedding was one out of a storybook, and how her fiance was just perfect. The wedding was in a week. Anyway, she picked up a pot of boiling water off the stove, and was turning to take it wherever it needed to go when she slipped on a puddle on the floor. The pot went in the air, and the water landed on her face. Close-up shots of her burned skin, her grabbing her face in pain and screaming followed. It almost made me throw up.

The message was to clean up your mess. If the PSA in this thread is anything like that one, I'll respectfully decline.

It's pretty graphic, I think the real shock is that a lot of people thought it was real when they saw it.

**CyGal** · 08-25-2009, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by TarHeelHawk

I remember a PSA that was produced in Canada that involved being safe. A female cook was talking about her fiance, and how her wedding was one out of a storybook, and how her fiance was just perfect. The wedding was in a week. Anyway, she picked up a pot of boiling water off the stove, and was turning to take it wherever it needed to go when she slipped on a puddle on the floor. The pot went in the air, and the water landed on her face. Close-up shots of her burned skin, her grabbing her face in pain and screaming followed. It almost made me throw up.

The message was to clean up your mess. If the PSA in this thread is anything like that one, I'll respectfully decline.

I've seen Quinton Tarantino movies that are more graphic than this.