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Well while all week the CHP has been out and about.
Alas this is truly an epidemic in my opinion.
So you know while I only make one or two videos a day, these were the easy ones to make due to matched speeds, or whatever.
I don't go out of my way, try to hold up traffic, etc to try and get good camera shots. Thus you get the best of what got 'caught" on my camera during my commute to work.
I hope I am not driving folks nuts be continuing to post these but I truly believe awareness is key!
The more people that point this out, the more attention it will get. Well I hope so anyway!
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So I first spotted this lady looking down miles before this video starts.
But of course it's an assumption to say for sure she was using a phone. However miles later it became obvious!
This is serious in my opinion! Now because there is a LAW about using your phone while driving, people are keeping it in their lap and looking down at it in an attempt to hide they are using their phone!
This is even more dangerous because they now lose any peripheral vision of what is happening around them!
Bob
Last edited by finless; 06-03-2015 at 03:16 PM.
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 Originally Posted by flaggerphil
There is a guy on another forum I belong to who INSISTS that HE can text safely while driving. Doesn't matter what the studies say, HE can do it safely. When facts like those presented here are brought up he brings out straw man arguments about radios being distractions, too...etc, etc, etc. And he's not a kid, he's a middle aged man.
There's no hope for some people.
I agree, he's not a kid . . . he's an imbecile!
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Not much to comment on... Just sad to see this. I am NOT assuming this was caused by Texting while driving... but.....
I have noticed an increase personally in the amount of rear end collisions I see on my commute.
Bob
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Join the cause!
I am not trying to take anything from Spyder Lovers here....
But for as much as I can, I want the word to get out! That is other media.
If you like, please join my Facebook page and contribute awareness if you can.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1426293184357962/
Bob
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 Rear ended???
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Originally Posted by Hayfield
I wonder how many people who weren't tailgating you ended up with broken windshields and damaged tires from your handful of nuts and bolts . . . 
Please, boys and girls . . . don't try this at home. 
Guess you have never seen what happens when a bike gets rear ended by a tailgater??? I have and it won't be me. I'll give a hand signal to back them off or a few taps on the brakes to flash the lights. But if that dosen't work-----
I don't toss bridge bolts!! Little stuff 8-32's or 6-24's---certianly not enough to cause a flat tire. And if they slam on thier brakes and get hit by a tailgater-------
Honestly-- I haven't done this for many a moon and don't even carry that ammo any more--- real ammo in a real pistol is now more my style( yes --- a carry permit )
Kaos----- Gone but not forgotten. 
2014 RTS in Circuit Yellow, farkle-ing addiction down to once every few months. ECU FLASH IS GREAT. 
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Drunk Driving has met it's match in stupidity! The only way to stop texting while driving is to make the penalties really harsh.
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Originally Posted by Rockwall
Drunk Driving has met it's match in stupidity! The only way to stop texting while driving is to make the penalties really harsh.
That has not stopped DUI..... Only way to stop BOTH is for people to freakin take action! Make awareness, etc....
I think texting while driving is MUCH easier to contain than DUI.... PEER pressure and others taking action!
Bob
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Hi Bob,
Re: PEER pressure
Their peers are all of the other 20-somethings. Some time ago I read an article that the vast majority of women would give up sex before they would give up their cell phones. Some people are simply addicted to them. And this why I will not get a smart phone; my simple cell phone ( receive calls & make calls ) works just fine. But then, I am an old guy.
IMO the only thing that will work is a weekend in jail, for starters.
Just my $0.02 on this.
Now to get down off of the soap box,
Jerry Baumchen
PS) And I see it daily; the texting is the worst.
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We should start with 1st offense mandatory license suspension of at least a year. It would make a lot of people think.
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Very light sentence if you ask me!
If you are DUI and kill someone it is instantly upgraded to a Felony!
Same should hold true for texting while driving.
Bob
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Originally Posted by finless
Very light sentence if you ask me!
If you are DUI and kill someone it is instantly upgraded to a Felony!
Same should hold true for texting while driving.
Bob
I agree
in my opinion this young lady committed murder
The victims two children and her husband will never see her again
And the criminal only gets 90 days
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Everyone should be writing/emailing their state legislators, demanding that texting while driving be elevated to the same offense as drunken driving, and that penalties should meet or exceed DWI penalties. Deaths caused by texting while driving should be treated as vehicular manslaughter.
A woman was recently convicted of killing a mother of two in an accident caused by her texting . . . and she got a lousy 90 days in jail . . . she should have been charged with vehicular manslaughter.
As long as folks only get a slap on the wrist if caught, they will keep doing it . . . and their kids will grow up, doing it, because mom and dad always did . . .
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On a much longer sentence. Equal to a Dui----- you bet!!!
Kaos----- Gone but not forgotten.
2014 RTS in Circuit Yellow, farkle-ing addiction down to once every few months. ECU FLASH IS GREAT.
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Latest Vblog....
The amount of texting and driving I saw this day was crazy!
Bob
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There was a story on our local news last week where a guy on a motorcycle yelled at a driver that was texting. So the driver just ran into him and drove off. The news reporter was interviewing the cyclist from his hospital bed.
AT&T has some pretty good videos on T&D. I just wish they got a lot more air time.
http://about.att.com/newsroom/it_can...e_driving.html
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Yeah, remember people will road rage and are not right in the head while you lay in the middle of road bruised and bleeding.
Be Careful out there.
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Those Aussies
Seen this a while ago. Love it. If I got a commission for every person who I convicted of the offense I'd like to sign up for the job. That and not stopping at stop signs I could retire early.
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I just want a horn that sounds like a wreck is in progress... Screeching tires, banging metal sounds, horns, etc. Imagine someone hearing that while they are texting and thinking they are about to be hit. Just a little audio wake-up call. 
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Busting texting drivers - How I do it safely explained!
I get lots of question including people bashing on me thinking I am using my phone to bust texting drivers!
Hard to believe when my videos clearly show my hands on the handlebars but OK... Not sure how they think I am holding a phone 
Then people saying I am looking into windows and not watching the road. NOT TRUE...
So I did a Vblog on my way into work explaining how the camera works and how I do this safely.
Bob
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If, I did the camera thing i'd be with you 150%, but since I don't...yet..I'll help in any other way I may be able to. Just let me know.
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Age is not the FACT!
Older guy and GET THIS!
He is on two phones at one time....
I swear, this is a epidemic and is getting worse every day 
Bob
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Maybe no one watched or noticed this guys license plate.
In the above video it was pointed out to me the guy is a Fireman!
Bob
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