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Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year

From "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net>
Newsgroups alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, comp.mobile.android, rec.autos.driving, talk.politics.guns, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year
Date 2024-12-12 09:09 -0600
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"bad sector" <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote in message 
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> On 12/11/24 15:52, Andrew wrote:
>> super70s wrote on Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:38:40 -0600 :
>>
>>>> And for all the morons out there who love to claim "absence of evidence 
>>>> is
>>>> not evidence of absence", then simply show evidence of these accidents 
>>>> that
>>>> you religiously feel must exist simply because you want them to exist.
>>>
>>> I saw in my hometown paper yesterday the sister of an erstwhile friend 
>>> crashed her Mercedes into two other cars at a stoplight, causing a chain 
>>> reaction and sending herself and others to the hospital. I'm willing to 
>>> bet she was on the phone.
>>
>>
>> I fully agree with you that there should be a law against using Mercedes
>> vehicles while driving. It makes perfect sense to do that (in your 
>> world).
>>
>>> Anecdotal but I've seen enough anecdotes to believe these laws are 
>>> needed.
>>
>> Nobody said that driving doesn't *already* include handling a zillion
>> distractions, so we all agree that only people who are too stupid to 
>> handle
>> those distractions should be driving.
>> That's why we have a "driving test" for all drivers after all.
>>
>> If they're too stupid to handle one more distraction out of hundreds 
>> (maybe
>> thousands) then they shouldn't be driving a vehicle, Mercedes or 
>> otherwise.
>>
>> In reality, there should be a law against giving stupid people a license.
>>
>> In fact, insurance companies always gave me a "good driver" discount and 
>> a
>> "good student" discount because I'm not too stupid to handle 
>> distractions.
>>
>> If someone has NOT always received both those discounts their entire
>> driving life, then they are (by definition) too stupid to be in this
>> conversation.
>>
>> Moving forward, please append the sig with whether or not you have a good
>> driver discount and (when you were going to school) a good student one.
>>
>
> -- 
> Not stupid so I can handle distractions, as evidenced by my "good driver" 
> and "good student" discounts my whole life.
>
> Over a million miles without accidents says that hands-free is not 
> brain-free, argue with that.

Easy.. most people can easily think about multiple things at the same time. 
You can drive, have a discussion and listen to music all at the same time. 
Now, I grant you need to be able to prioritize as needed, but virtually 
everyone, excluding yourself, can apparently do it very well.
 

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Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year David Yurman <spamming@your.tv> - 2024-12-11 07:51 +0100
  Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-11 17:13 +0000
    Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2024-12-11 13:38 -0600
      Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-11 20:52 +0000
        Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2024-12-11 16:11 -0500
          Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-12 04:11 +0000
            Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2024-12-12 07:28 -0500
              Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year Andrew <andys@nospam.com> - 2024-12-12 21:14 +0000
          Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> - 2024-12-12 09:09 -0600
            Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2024-12-12 12:05 -0500
              Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> - 2024-12-12 11:09 -0600
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