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When I'm first in line I'm always watching to see when the light turns green. When it does I do a quick glance in each direction before pulling off. The last thing I want is somebody honking at me. Occasionally a driver will honk anyway just as soon as the light changes
Ugh. That is so annoying.
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Not sure if it's been mentioned already but some lights take so long to change that I just start thinking about something and sort of space out while waiting. In this case I appreciate a reminder from the drivers behind. I never use cell phone when driving.
What is super-annoying though is someone behind honking when you are turning right on red. Sorry but I'm not going to proceed until I feel safe, no matter how much you are in a hurry. Just chill.
I get the phone being holstered to your vents for gps purposes. But I do not think ANYONE should be doing anything else with their phone while behind the wheel... period. Even using voice technology to send a text. It distracts you from what you should be concentrating on. STOP IT!
Right, because you've never carried on a conversation with someone in the car while driving? Tell me how it's different. In fact, my voice texting isn't a full conversation.
There was a study I saw last year that said that sending a text via voice in the car was more distracting/dangerous than doing it from your phone itself.
Please provide the study. Because I don't see how that's remotely possible.
Driver response times were significantly delayed no matter which texting method was used. In each case, drivers took about twice as long to react as they did when they weren’t texting. With slower reaction times, drivers are less able to take action in response to sudden roadway hazards, such as a swerving vehicle or a pedestrian in the street.
The amount of time that drivers spent looking at the roadway ahead was significantly less when they were texting, no matter which texting method was used.
For most tasks, manual texting required slightly less time than the voice-to-text method, but driver performance was roughly the same with both.
Drivers felt less safe when they were texting, but felt safer when using a voice-to-text application than when texting manually, even though driving performance suffered equally with both methods.
A quote from the lead researcher in another article:
Yager said speech-to-text actually took longer than traditional texting, due to the need to correct errors in the electronic transcription.
"You're still using your mind to try to think of what you're trying to say, and that by proxy causes some driving impairment, and that decreases your response time," Yager said.
The biggest concern is that the driver felt safer while using voice-to-text applications instead of traditional texting, even though driving performance was equally affected, she said.
This may lead to a false belief that texting while driving using spoken commands is safe when in reality it is not, Yager said.
You know what's even worse? I've had people slam on their brakes ahead of me, exactly as the light turns yellow, so that gives them MORE time to send a text or dial their phones!
HAHA the comments in that USA Today article are hilarious - yes us traffic engineers intentionally design roads so that you have to sit in congestion so we're to blame for the people cutting through your neighborhood. Maybe the people who insist on driving in vehicles where 75% of the space they take up of the road is unoccupied are to blame........
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I never use cell phone when driving.
