Re: Does Australia have similar cellphone "related" accident rates as the United States

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android, alt.home.repair
Subject	Re: Does Australia have similar cellphone "related" accident rates as the United States
Date	2016-10-16 18:00 +1100
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"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:58032037$0$20326$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com...
> Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:5802f9bc$0$29152$c3e8da3$38634283@news.astraweb.com...
>>> nospam wrote:
>>>> In article <j2750c9bdok28phkf87baa4tskqks2d1dd@4ax.com>,
>>>> (PeteCresswell) <x@y.Invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Both in Australia, and in the United States, the fact is that
>>>>>> cellphones
>>>>>> aren't any more distracting than talking to a passenger,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would disagree with that.
>>>>>
>>>>> When a driver is talking to a passenger there is an unspoken covenant:
>>>>> driving comes first... and the conversation ebbs and flows around that
>>>>> understanding.     Same thing with CB radios.
>>>>>
>>>>> OTOH, the person on the other end of a cell phone call has no such
>>>>> understanding and the driver tends to keep up the conversation no
>>>>> matter
>>>>> what is happening around the vehicle.
>>>>
>>>> they have the same understanding as anyone else would, and cb radio is
>>>> not always mobile either.
>>>>
>>>> "hi, i'm driving, but wanted to call you about..."
>>>>
>>>> plus, the driver can always toss the phone on the seat at any time, for
>>>> any reason, if traffic conditions demand it (or even if they don't).
>>>>
>>>>> Also, the operation of a cell phone seems to take some degree of the
>>>>> driver's attention.   I do not see drivers conversing with passengers
>>>>> and wandering back-and-forth across lane lines - OTOH I see that
>>>>> regularly with drivers talking on the phone.   Dunno what they are
>>>>> doing, but they are clearly doing something besides driving.
>>>>
>>>> then you aren't looking very hard.
>>>>
>>> Although I do not handle the phone in the car, any conversations are
>>> carried on the same as when I used two way radio, usually short and
>>> sweet and the phone conversion gets ignored when driving requires more
>>> concentration.
>>> I do concede that some drivers get immersed in the phone conversation
>>> to the detriment of driving .
>>
>>> Has anyone watched the tests of phone use on a track ? How many stop
>>> using the phone when negotiating cones or emergencies as a sensible
>>> user would, do they use psychological tricks to keep the subject
>>> talking on the phone?
>>
>> Trouble is that you can't stop the other person from continuing to say
>> what they were saying and any test needs to put the driver in the 
>> situation
>> where they can't just ignore the phone, they need to have to be able to
>> repeat what the other person on the phone was saying so they can't just
>> ignore the phone when they need to.

> That is the trouble with the test, it is slanted,sensible users would 
> ignore phone in difficult circumstances, but they want the test to show 
> dangers so that they can make laws for the lowest common denominator and 
> make it sound reasonable to the masses.

They do in fact allow the phone to be used with a hands free kit
and it is perfectly reasonable to anyone with even half a clue that
it makes no sense to be driving with a phone held to your ear.

> In one way I suppose they have to cater for the minute number of phone 
> related accidents, but I wish they did not have to make it difficult for 
> the majority.

They don't, you are free to use a hands free kit if you want to.

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