I never liked Chapel Hill, anyway

There is a ridiculous amount of pedestrian traffic in a tiny area and an even larger amount of shitty drivers. Probably a smart move.
 
Distracted driving is ALREADY illegal, why do you need a separate law for phones. And this is almost impossible to enforce, tinted windows and a bluetooth setup with your stereo system, and no one will ever know your on the phone.
The thing thatreally gets me about the cellphone use, why are they bad, but CB radios and police 2 way radios are OK?

Violators of the ban will face a $25 fine
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don't forget to add in those court costs!!!!!!!!!!
 
transman731 said:
i think they should(no one likes me enough to call me anyway)
every time i see a stupid driver, there is usually a cell phone in their hand.
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Agreed...I've been an advocate for eliminating cell phone use while driving for a while now. There's no reason to need to be on a cell while driving except for in the case of an emergency, but that's the extreme minority of cases. There's a difference between active engagement (cell phone use) and inactive engagement (listening to the radio) and there's a direct correlation to driver attentiveness.
 
Gonna ban the use of a CB next? I don't see the difference.
 
drkelly said:
Gonna ban the use of a CB next? I don't see the difference.
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statistics.
Millions of people drive with cell phones. Only tens of thousands, if that many, drive with CBs. People who try to "enact change" go for the numbers.
In a town like Chapel Hill, how many accidents a year are caused by people using a CB?
 
In a town like Chapel Hill more people are injured durring tree hugging accidents or :gay: sex acts than driving. They need their cell phones to discuss both with their mothers.:D
Yep, I said it and I stand behind it.:)
 
Fawking NHTSA guidelines issued last month are basically going to ban in-car GPS and any kind of "dynamic" (ie, changing) displays.

All this despite the fact that there's little evidence that "distracted driving" is a problem in and of itself. Most studies can't differentiate between talking on a cell phone vs having a conversation with a passenger. Eating and drinking while driving are more distracting, relatively speaking.

Hell, there's actually a study that showed accidents increased after no-texting laws went into effect.
 
I'd rather not talk on the phone while driving. It's the one time that I can get away from everything. My old Jeep has no radio, no CB, no tv's, and it's too damn loud to use the phone. It's like a 25 minute escape from the world twice a day.

HOW THE HELL DID WE EVER SURVIVE WITHOUT MOBILE PHONES!?! we were such knuckle draggers in the 80's!!!
 
mbalbritton said:
HOW THE HELL DID WE EVER SURVIVE WITHOUT MOBILE PHONES!?! we were such knuckle draggers in the 80's!!!
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I never had a cell phone until about 3 months ago, work forced me to have a blackberry. The damn thing still spends most of its time in a desk drawer. Oddly enough, I seem to manage in my day to day life just fine. When folks ask me why I don't have a phone, I tell them when I want to talk to them, I'll come find them. Then they ask about internet gizmos and whatnot, usually a little forethought and planning can go a long way...look up the directions online before you leave someplace (or gasp, reference an atlas)...look up that movie time before you head out...yadda yadda yadda.
 
i think it's a good idea. i see idiots driving recklessly while on them all the time. but if they're gonna ban cell phone use, ban those stupid people that drive with their damn pet in their lap. seriously? you cant get enough of your dog that you have to have it in your lap while you're driving 3 mins to the grocery store?
 
I see people texting and talking when I'm riding my motorcycle. I've had a few merge on me not paying attention to the road and I give them a nice tap on the door with my boot. I admit I use to, but as worried as I get when I ride and see it, I just let it wait til I'm stopped when I'm in a car...


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Are they also going force LEOs to not use their in car computers while driving? I was run halfway off the road by a Sheriff who was clearly looking at his console mounted screen as I passed him (oncoming!) on a country road a year or 2 ago and have seen more than a few LEOs driving while glancing back and forth at their screens. They should know better.
 
UTfball68 said:
I never had a cell phone until about 3 months ago, work forced me to have a blackberry. The damn thing still spends most of its time in a desk drawer. Oddly enough, I seem to manage in my day to day life just fine. When folks ask me why I don't have a phone, I tell them when I want to talk to them, I'll come find them. Then they ask about internet gizmos and whatnot, usually a little forethought and planning can go a long way...look up the directions online before you leave someplace (or gasp, reference an atlas)...look up that movie time before you head out...yadda yadda yadda.
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Here is hoping you always have a desk job.
Try covering a 3 state territory with 50 plus accounts. Its a necessity for my survival.
 
tireburner1975 said:
I see people texting and talking when I'm riding my motorcycle. I've had a few merge on me not paying attention to the road and I give them a nice tap on the door with my boot. I admit I use to, but as worried as I get when I ride and see it, I just let it wait til I'm stopped when I'm in a car...


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This being the problem. I don't touch a phone while driving for I have trailers / equipment behind me most often and it should be a rule that you don't pass without adequate passing area; in which I don't and those behind me can KMA. And I pull over for important calls unless I'm on a dull area of Interstate trip or good pull over. The human mind can only do so much????
Been there every day. I don't think that even byciclist deserve the road when there's a sidewalk, which is prohibited in the state of NC for a bycicle to travel. :confused: Seems anything below 30 MPH should take advantage of a lane provided by taxpayers of $3.00 per square foot and at minum of 5 foot wide??? What gives when there are more byciclist than pedestrians? I'd rather pedal than walk and feel majority takes presence there...
 
Having worked all over the campus at UNC several times over the years, for months at a time, and during spring and summer. I can tell you there are more than enough visual distractions for the average male driver, w/o a cellphone!! They may have a point as far as around the school...... just sayin.
 
Ron said:
Here is hoping you always have a desk job.
Try covering a 3 state territory with 50 plus accounts. Its a necessity for my survival.
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I have no doubt they are a necessity for some. I do handle the inventory finances for our sister distributorships in Melbourne, Australia, Kilkeel, Ireland and Leighton Buzzard, England...and have kept up fairly well. I also have the luxury of telling them I'll get back to them when I'm good and ready, though. But I'm sure the blackberry will weasel it's way in to my life...as my bosses tell me anyway.
 
UTfball68 said:
I have no doubt they are a necessity for some. I do handle the inventory finances for our sister distributorships in Melbourne, Australia, Kilkeel, Ireland and Leighton Buzzard, England...and have kept up fairly well. I also have the luxury of telling them I'll get back to them when I'm good and ready, though. But I'm sure the blackberry will weasel it's way in to my life...as my bosses tell me anyway.
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For reference I drove 72,000 miles last year on business alone.
I average 3,700 minutes per month on my work cell phone.
You do the math and figure how often hose two do not coincide. As anyone who has tried calling me knows, its a 50/50 proposition at best.
 
As someone who has been hit twice in a 8 month timeframe by drivers on cellphones i will be happy when they are banned everywhere. Both times my Land Cruiser's got totaled, but i walked away from both. Not so good for the other people in the little cars.
 
88 BII said:
i think it's a good idea. i see idiots driving recklessly while on them all the time. but if they're gonna ban cell phone use, ban those stupid people that drive with their damn pet in their lap. seriously? you cant get enough of your dog that you have to have it in your lap while you're driving 3 mins to the grocery store?
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FTS. You're an adult. You should be capable of making your own decisions about what you're capable of doing without the state intruding on those decisions. As I stated earlier (but some have chosen to ignore), cell phones are only one of many "driver distractions", and cell phones themselves are indistinguishable as a distraction from having *any* conversation, including just talking casually with another person in the car.

There's an oft-cited case of some 17yo kid who was involved in a collision with two school buses. A bunch of people got hurt, I think somebody died, etc. The incident has been used as justification for "texting" laws, because, while they can't prove that he was actually texting at the time of the accident, the kid had sent and received 11 texts in the previous 11 minutes.

What nobody ever mentions is the fact that the actual cause of the collision was that *both* school bus drivers were following too closely, and one of them was distracted by a disabled vehicle on the side of the road. It was a case of driver distraction, all right, but not the one that people want you to think.

Meanwhile, studies of the effectiveness of texting laws show an *increase* in accidents after the ban goes into effect. Problem is, the phone is a multifunction device today, and the texting bans encourage drivers to hold the phones low, out of sight, lest they be pulled over and ticketed. So they have to take their eyes off the road for a longer amount of time, actually making them more dangerous to other drivers.

So unless you're prepared to ride around your car in absolute silence, radio off, no eating, no drinking, windows up, passenger mans the climate controls, etc... then STFU about cell phones.
 
shawn said:
So unless you're prepared to ride around your car in absolute silence, radio off, no eating, no drinking, windows up, passenger mans the climate controls, etc... then STFU about cell phones.
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This is actually how I drive most of the time, except windows down. It kinda pisses my wife off.
 
jeepinmatt said:
This is actually how I drive most of the time, except windows down. It kinda pisses my wife off.
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You ride around with the windows open!?!?! Don't you realize that a BEE could get sucked in the window and sting you and you could go into anaphylactic shock and stab down on the gas pedal and swerve across traffic and take out a minivan full of children on their way to CHURCH!?!? HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE????
 
shawn said:
You ride around with the windows open!?!?! Don't you realize that a BEE could get sucked in the window and sting you and you could go into anaphylactic shock and stab down on the gas pedal and swerve across traffic and take out a minivan full of children on their way to CHURCH!?!? HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE????
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I'm not allergic.:)
 
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