Cell Phones in Cars
Due to impending road conditions, it was decided to forgo Tuesday's events at the auto show and contact specific officers of several of the companies after the show is over.
On the drive from Romulus, Michigan, to Naperville, Illinois, due to weather, traffic, and accidents on I94, the trip extended to almost 8 hours over the normal 4.5 hours. In an effort to entertain myself following another driver swerving into my lane while talking on a cell phone, I decided to do a poll.
During the trip, I identified 64 incidences of erratic driving, with about 1/3rd of incidences occurring near large towns or cities. Incidences include erratic driving where a car cuts off another vehicle, too slow or erratic speeds, braking for no reason, swerving towards other cars or across lines or the side of the road, leaving lane, including one case of a car leaving the road due to the icy conditions.
Of the 64 incidences, 51 of the drivers held cell phones to their ears. That is 79.7% of the incidences involved active cell phones (not hands-free). In the case of the one car leaving the road, the driver kept the cell phone to his ear the entire time as he slid off the road into the snow-filled ditch. In a number of cases, it was obvious the drivers were having arguments. While I did not pay too much attention to the number of incidences involving males or females or age, there did not appear to be any significant differences.
Regardless of how well you think you can drive while talking hands-free on a cell phone, you can't! Such activity puts other drivers and their passengers in danger.
What do you think?
On the drive from Romulus, Michigan, to Naperville, Illinois, due to weather, traffic, and accidents on I94, the trip extended to almost 8 hours over the normal 4.5 hours. In an effort to entertain myself following another driver swerving into my lane while talking on a cell phone, I decided to do a poll.
During the trip, I identified 64 incidences of erratic driving, with about 1/3rd of incidences occurring near large towns or cities. Incidences include erratic driving where a car cuts off another vehicle, too slow or erratic speeds, braking for no reason, swerving towards other cars or across lines or the side of the road, leaving lane, including one case of a car leaving the road due to the icy conditions.
Of the 64 incidences, 51 of the drivers held cell phones to their ears. That is 79.7% of the incidences involved active cell phones (not hands-free). In the case of the one car leaving the road, the driver kept the cell phone to his ear the entire time as he slid off the road into the snow-filled ditch. In a number of cases, it was obvious the drivers were having arguments. While I did not pay too much attention to the number of incidences involving males or females or age, there did not appear to be any significant differences.
Regardless of how well you think you can drive while talking hands-free on a cell phone, you can't! Such activity puts other drivers and their passengers in danger.
What do you think?
Labels: cell phones, erratic driving
posted by MotorDoc at
7:58 PM
1 Comments:
I absolutly agree! What I love is when they are on the phone and smoking at the same time,putting on makeup while on phone and I see soo many people texting while driving. Really scary!
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