Carfax..cell phones/accidents

[Steve Marinello]

And one of those early heads up displays supposedly showed your email in 
the show car....Aaaaargh!

Ed Kellock wrote:
> I guess I'm getting more liberal in my old age because though I
> believe cell phone usage while driving is just the latest, most
> obvious symptom of a larger social problem, I am 100% in favor of
> banning the fu$$ers.
>
> Is it Ford or GM who's showing off a car that reads your text messages
> to you while you're driving?
>
> FFS.
>
> Ed
>
> On 10/2/07, Steve Marinello <smarinello at entouch.net> wrote:
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>> I've really had it with cell phone using drivers.  I've personally
>> dodged accidents close to a dozen times attributable to oblivious
>> drivers on cell phones.  One of my former student was literally run off
>> the road by a guy in a Continental and ended up rolling her Civic Si
>> multiple times to within an arms' reach of a gas pump.  The guy drove
>> on.  Yesterday in Houston, where I live now, a 38 year old motorcycle
>> cop was killed by a guy in an SUV, on the phone, who veered onto the
>> shoulder where he was writing a ticket, taking our first his motorcycle,
>> then smacking the back of the stopped car and finally collecting the cop
>> to complete the disaster.  Personal link...the same cop had ticketed me
>> a couple of years ago and he was the kind of cop you actually are happy
>> to deal with when you know you're in the wrong.  A very nice,
>> professional guy with a family.  They're 'considering' filing
>> unintentional manslaughter charges.
>>
>> Personal rant off.
>>
>> QUATTRO1869 at aol.com wrote:
>>     
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