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    T.R.A.A.P.D.: Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers

    NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008

    F1 Driver Sebastien Bourdais Claims He Was Fired By Text Message

    Texting-While-Driving Tow Truck Driver Plows Into Pool

    The US Atlas Of Texting-While-Driving Laws

    Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving

    Seattle Area Police Chief Causes Accident Driving While Texting

    Laptop-Distracted Truck Driver Kills Family Of Six

    Captain Obvious Of The Day: Teens Think They're Good Drivers, Like Loud Music

    Cistrak Turns Your Car Into a TXTING BFF
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    11/10/09

    In reply to T.R.A.A.P.D.: Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers
    I agree. I'm just a child really, but I think my skillz are better then my elders. Specifically my mom. Who, last Friday, drove off with the Tempo's rear passenger door open. I, have never done that. #snl
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/10/09

    In reply to T.R.A.A.P.D.: Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers
    When the GPS in the RX300 mis-routes, due to the data being almost a decade old, I pat Princess, the car's name, gently on the dash and tell her it's okay, we all get old.... #snl
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    11/10/09

    @that ain't the way to have fun, son: Senility is a serious problem for old cars these days. I think mine is incontinent it keeps leaking in the driveway. #snl
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    11/10/09

    In reply to T.R.A.A.P.D.: Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers
    "I shaid

    Romeo take me shomewhere we can be alone
    I'll be waiting all there'sh left to do ish run
    You'll be zhe prinshe and I'll be zhe princshesshhhhhhhhh
    It'sh a love shtory baby just shay yeshhhhhhh"

    Probably not going to win her a VMA . #snl
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    Image of jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware
    11/10/09

    In reply to T.R.A.A.P.D.: Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers
    My mom always scared the crap out of me growing up. The searching for something in the car/purse is spot on. #snl
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    11/10/09

    In reply to T.R.A.A.P.D.: Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers
    Oh, thats right. They don't want us streaming SNL in Canada. #snl
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    Image of jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware
    11/10/09

    @danio3834: The United States decided we can't trust Canadians with the full internet in the same way George can't trust Lennie with a small animal. #snl
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    11/10/09

    @danio3834: And although the UK is the only country in the world besides the USA that has full access to F-15 technology and parts, and not actually using a single one of them, we can't have Hulu. #snl
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    11/10/09

    @danio3834: You guys got ketchup chips though. #snl
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    Image of Electro Gyrocator Electro Gyrocator
    11/10/09

    @FrankGrimes: Don't forget Dill Pickle. #snl
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    11/10/09

    @Electro Gyrocator: Oh ya those are good. I had some steak flavored chips and they were surprisingly steak like. #snl
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    11/10/09

    @FrankGrimes: I don't know what happened. Please accept this and my apologies. #snl
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    11/10/09

    In reply to T.R.A.A.P.D.: Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers
    Bring back Toonces the driving cat please. #snl
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    11/10/09

    In reply to T.R.A.A.P.D.: Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers
    They forgot "Driving while smacking the snot out of the daughter who is really the mailman's kid" #snl
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/10/09

    @lilwillie: do you want to talk about it, lilwillie?
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    Edited by weatherman at 11/10/09 9:40 AM weatherman was starred weatherman was unstarred
    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    11/10/09

    @weatherman: Nah, no daughters for me, thankfully. I'll keep it all pent up then go mental and climb a clock tower. #snl
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    10/01/09

    In reply to NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008
    What these statistics say is, while 15% can be blamed on being "distracted", be it by the pickle falling off your Royale with cheese, or screwing with the radio, or texting, the other 85% are caused by something else.

    This something else isn't mechanical failure. It's incompetent driving, which is the real problem. Significantly reduce that and the "distracted" part gets a free ride to the landfill.
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/30/09

    In reply to NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008

    All cars should be Federally/UN/EU mandated to have no distractions; this means no radio, TV, cell phone, maps, prostitutes, gages, Big Gulps, blinking dash lights, passengers, nothing. There should only be a steering wheel with a seat and rudimentary controls to pilot the car. Everything within the car would be covered in flat black paint. All cars should have a special hood aiming device which the driver will utilize to aim said vehicle by using the roadway lines, any deviation from the roadway lines should result in fines or jail. Plus all drivers would be required to wear blinders and have their heads locked in a vice like contraption to keep them from wayward gazes.
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    Image of Pinkerton Proletariat Pinkerton Proletariat
    09/30/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: I'll call your Nirvana Fallacy, and raise you a Straw Man Fallacy. So what you're saying is we should allow people to run over pedestrians?
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    Image of zeeboid zeeboid
    09/30/09

    @Pinkerton Proletariat: obviously he is not.

    seeing as how it is already illegal to hurt someone that same rule applies when behind the wheel.

    WHAT YOU DO before you hurt someone however shouldn't be illegal.
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    Image of gabeedwards01 gabeedwards01
    09/30/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: Seconded. That's how I roll.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    09/30/09

    In reply to NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008
    NHTSA Summit 2009: Texting While Driving
    Vail, CO

    0800: Opening Remarks, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood

    0900: Opening Prayer, Father Mulcahy

    1000: Coffee Break

    1030: Session 1: Statistical Analysis of Drivers Who Text

    1045: Coffee Break

    1100: Session 2: PSA Brainstroming

    1130: Lunch

    1230: Open Panel: What is Texting?

    1245: Coffee Break

    1300: Session 3: How to Force States to Adopt Texting Laws

    1315: Closing Ceremony, President Obama via Satellite

    Come join us next year in Tahiti where we'll be discussing the dangers of soda and driving!
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    09/30/09

    In reply to NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008
    We didn't need those people anyway.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/30/09

    @philibuster: I don't care about the people who die because they were texting or eating lunch behind the wheel. I care about their passengers, and the people they run into.
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/30/09

    @MushyHeirloom: If the people they ran into hadn't of been texting and eating lunch, they would have seen the other people texting and eating lunch, and would have avoided them; so we don't need them either.
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    09/30/09

    In reply to NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008
    This NHTSA statistic is meaningful only if we also know how many fatal accidents were prevented as a result of distracted driving. For example, if the texting idiot driving the Escalade in the other lane hadn't run me off the road, I would have been t-boned and killed at the next intersection by the texting idiot in the Tahoe who ran a red light.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    09/30/09

    @tempesjo: That's one way to look at it.
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    09/30/09

    In reply to NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008
    What about road head? I think we discussed that last week.
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    09/30/09

    In reply to NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008
    God Damn texting a-holes. Next person I pass on the road who is texting while driving I am throwing my Beer can at them.
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    Edited by lilwillie at 09/30/09 3:40 PM lilwillie was starred lilwillie was unstarred
    Image of Carplanetzone1 Carplanetzone1
    09/30/09

    @lilwillie hides autos in the attic: What's worse, drinking beer while driving or texting? ;)
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/30/09

    @Carplanetzone1: Doing both. It can really mess with your speling.
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    09/30/09

    @Carplanetzone1: I have a really cool drive home when I want to do it. I get done work and drive out to the family farm. From there I have about a three mile drive across field roads and marsh roads to my house. There are mostly just straight, gravel/dirt roads with ditches on the sides, or corn and soybean fields around me.

    I normally stop at the farm house and grab a cold Beer from the fridge for that little drive across the marsh. Call it my few minutes of thinking about the day over a Beer. I'm on private property so technically I am ok (at least I tell myself that). I have never had a bad drive across with a cold beer in my hand. But if that damn cell phone rings, or I get a text, I have to stop because I can't drive on those roads and try to talk on the phone or read a text while keeping out of the ditch.

    So Drinking and Driving is better then Texting while driving.
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/30/09

    @lilwillie hides autos in the attic: My dad almost always had a beer in the car while driving when I was a kid, it was even legal to drink and drive back then.
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    09/30/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger:

    Same here. Someone we managed to survive...
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/30/09

    In reply to NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008
    While distraction is the leading cause of accidents in the US, almost all accidents are preventable. As a public service, I present the other top 9 causes:

    9) Dancing truckers
    8) Flaming supercars
    7) Euro footballers on holiday
    6) Self gratification
    5) Journalists on road tests
    4) Romanians who can't pee straight
    3) Loose floor mats
    2) Bees/Fingernails (tie)
    1) Dieter
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    09/30/09

    @Alfisted: :) Snicker, snicker!
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