:Use of cell phone while driving ban.
- Thread starter JLM
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So you never break the law,,, jaywalk, spit on the ground,
I must ask do ya'll walk on water too???? :roll::lol:
You're right! We (society) don't pay enough attention to it. City driving is one thing, and you pointed out some of the stupidity involved there, but there is just as much of it out in the boonies. They're both bad.
I'd like to see a course for driving that would include high-speed stuff, so a person would know what to do when a wheel comes off at 110 km/hr on the highway! (for example)...the company I used to work for sent me on a "high performance driving course" down in the states one time...I was a salesman at the time.
Boy, that was cool...I got to drive like a maniac on a real course (lots of straw bales around it), but it included all kinds of "emergency" stuff like spins on an oil-slicked road, and so on. The spins started off at around 65 km/hr, but then worked up to well over 120 km/hr. There's nothing like trying to make a u-turn or swerving to avoid a car in front of you at those speeds on a slippery road. It sure as hell takes the mystery out of "what would happen" when you go through it for real. The objective of that segment was to teach you how to "drive according to prevailing conditions." (Slow down if it's slippery, or as they put it - if it's slippery, K.I.S.S...Keep It Slow, Stupid!)
I had been driving for years at the time, but I learned a lot from it.
After the course, I felt like I had much more control over the vehicle...it also included a very large amount of "defensive driving"...in fact, about half the course was about the "other guy" and what to watch out for. It became very clear to me early on in the course (a week) that there would be no time for eating, drinking, fiddling with papers, etc. while driving, because these folks taught me all about f-o-c-u-s-i-n-g on driving...anything that got in the way of that was banned, and they showed clearly why that was important. (The classroom part with decapitated and dismembered bodies being pulled from car wrecks was an attention-getter).
Our driving courses appear to me to be a bit of a joke. Too basic, not enough reality in them...at best, they seem to teach all the "preparatory" stuff but it's a bit like "lab conditions"...the real world is full of all kinds of stuff like bad weather, crazy drivers, and a whole load of stuff that we send new drivers out into, very unprepared. Doesn't make sense.
Refresher and update courses should be part of the deal too...people get careless, overconfident, and downright sloppy after a few years of safe driving and then they become just another accident, looking for a time and a place to happen.
We see how you are with posters who don't agree with you. How are you with other drivers?
Hell no, I never break the law. Since the government controls a third of my pension, I try not to pi$$ anyone off.:roll:
There's records and then there's records, one being the documented record at Motor Vehicle Branch and the other being comprised of information stored in the brain cells of all the people who have had to swerve around her. The unwritten record.
I know exactly the meaning of a driving record. Since we are not privy to the woman's actual driving record, we must go by what she tells us. She brags that she breaks the law all the time and says that "no pencil pushing candy ass" is going to make her stop. I think there is room to doubt. her record.
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Surprised.. I am not....
I stand by my driving record, and why not, if you are applying for a job pertaining to driving you need a clean abstract, and the cleaner the better, and it does carry a lot of impact on you getting hired.
No one swerves around me,,, I am usually the one swerving around some idiot that did not learn the one simple rule ....."Look out for the other driver,, and eyes straight ahead,, check mirrors every two seconds or so.... ".
I am not a person that is afraid to drive, am not a weather permitting kind, I am a driver, and very good.
Cell phone use is not breaking a law, it is a moving violation,,, no one is going to go to jail people... so get over yourselves.
It is true. My brother has a truck driving school. I would become a truck driver in a new york second, but my life is taking on different channels that will take me south... ( I plan on moving to Arizona by years end).
But what a life,,, I have a bit of the wanderlust in me... I love to travel.
I agree every 5-10 years especially as we age. I just did one, and like my first time years ago when I took the defensive driving course... passed with 100%.
Written as well,,, so I know I am a good driver....
oh and countryboy, they do have courses that take you out to do some high speed travel and what to do in case of a any mishap.
It is called a defensive driving course.
I avoided what could have been a fatal accident for me, and the honda bike that hit me a few years ago,, but because I am an alert driver and experienced,, I was able to swerve enough that he only sidearmed me with his bike. A truck driver seen the whole thing and complimented me on my driving skills, and it has not been the first time my driving skills and ability to have quick reactions has saved me, passengers, and others...
It is called a defensive driving course.
I avoided what could have been a fatal accident for me, and the honda bike that hit me a few years ago,, but because I am an alert driver and experienced,, I was able to swerve enough that he only sidearmed me with his bike. A truck driver seen the whole thing and complimented me on my driving skills, and it has not been the first time my driving skills and ability to have quick reactions has saved me, passengers, and others...
But hey see some of those cops out there and if they want to arrest me,, I would be more than glad to aSSume the position...ha ha.. and if they do not have their own handcuffs I got some leopard print ones....:lol:
