What is it with all the distracted driver lately.

[RB5]

So if I'm riding in the passenger seat I shouldn't be able to make calls?


+1.
In addition, just because you passed your test in a pickup doesn't mean that you are qualified to hook onto a 12,000 lb trailer and go with it.

You are giving me flashbacks. One weekend we went to Dallas a little later in the day than usual. We like to go get our shopping done before the idiots wake up. I saw quite a few badly loaded trailers that were either overloaded or not being towed level. What good is a 4" drop hitch when you have a 6" or more lift and 35s or bigger on the truck? A few of them were all over the road as the trailer tried to remain balanced. I saw a couple tandem axles trailers with most of the weight on the rear axle. That trip was scary. Of course none of them were pulled over when I saw them. One trailer had an axle so out of line that it was crossing the line into the lane next to it.

 

[Dftodd]

A friend of mine once got a ticket for excessive exceleration. He spun his tires when he was leaving on gravel and when he popped the clutch. I happened to be going around the curve next to them spinning my tires a he was getting a ticket. yeah..high school days years ago. Point is in some places the police can write tickets for all sorts of stuff.

Excessive show of horsepower

 

[Dftodd]

Every time I drive to Dallas I usually have multiple times where I have to dodge someone coming in my lane on the freeway. Most of the time I can see the driver on the phone or messing with a touch screen. Touch screens look cool and give you many more options, but they are terrible for us when driving. I guess voice activated would be better, but how many of the distracted drivers would be able to set that up without serious help? I don't recall it being like this when I used to go tot the office every day years ago.

I was getting close to San Antonio once and had some dude pass me on the turnpike (I had the cruise set at 80). He was pulling a 40ft trailer loaded to the gills and doing at least 90mph. My big issue with him was the large tablet he had in front of his face.

He was reading a flipping E-book

 

[RB5]

From my personal experience I really see how Full Self Driving will be default to get insurance discounts by 2035.

Two years ago on my way to Austin TX I reached Little rock AR right after dark. FSD was iffy in general but okay on Interstates for the most part so I engaged FSD and lived to tell about it. Today I would not want to do a cross-country road trip without totally depending on FSD to do the routing for charging and travel.

FSD is amazing for drivers with limitations. I am following the Tesla Robo Taxi Austin TX trials with no human in the driver's seat. The last account that I heard about there has been no deaths so far.

Yeah FSD and delivery drones. You won't have to go anywhere. Not for me. Makes me want to order a bunch of stuff delivered by drones and shoot at them as they come over the tree line near the house. Hey boys it's drone season...I don't think all this automation makes things better. I work in tech. There are many things that are easier, cheaper, and faster to do using technology, but there are also lots of people that do not understand it or do not have the capacity to focus when using it. I also know of an instance where someone was flying a drone in a garage and around the property of someone we know looking for stuff to steal. They had done the same thing to a few other properties. I am not sure what happened to them.

 

[KennyG]

If you don't move over to allow merging, you end up with timid drivers stopped on entrance ramps, which seems to me a dangerous situation. I've seen that more than and few times and it's very uncomfortable to come up behind a stopped car on an interstate entrance ramp.

 

[BravoXray]

Back before cell phone and dash tv. While on my way to work I used to pass a man on I-81 that was driving along 50 MPH reading his newspaper. Amazing people think they can do anything while driving.

When I drove truck back in the 70s, several times I saw people on the Dan Ryan expressway in Chicago reading books while driving.
You can see a lot of interesting things going on in cars from a cabover Peterbilt. Several times I saw guys getting what Ron White referred to as a highway delight. Even saw a girl changing her outfit while cruising down I-40, outside Albuquerque, NM.

 

[RandyT]

When I drove truck back in the 70s, several times I saw people on the Dan Ryan expressway in Chicago reading books while driving.
You can see a lot of interesting things going on in cars from a cabover Peterbilt. Several times I saw guys getting what Ron White referred to as a highway delight. Even saw a girl changing her outfit while cruising down I-40, outside Albuquerque, NM.

And they didn't cause accidents, or crash into people headon. The people doing those things were probably the 10% of people that can walk and chew gum at the same time. Now the other 90% have touchscreens and smart phones that are neurolinked to their only brain cell they are sitting on.

 

[mikester]

 

[Jstpssng]

And they didn't cause accidents, or crash into people headon. The people doing those things were probably the 10% of people that can walk and chew gum at the same time. Now the other 90% have touchscreens and smart phones that are neurolinked to their only brain cell they are sitting on.

Wow! This is quite an assumption. There were no crashes before cell phones?

 

[Jstpssng]

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I'm still trying to figure out what he expected you to say. "Free kittens" maybe?