Your Final Text Message

Postby **Sheenar** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:36 pm

A friend just sent me this video earlier today.

Please, please don't text while driving! It is SO dangerous! It really can wait until you are not driving.

Your Final Text Message

Postby **Furen** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:47 pm

Video unavailable

Postby **Sheenar** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:06 pm

It works for me.

I think you have to be logged in to Facebook to view it. The video isn't on YouTube, so I think that's the only link to see it.

Postby **Atria35** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:23 pm

Works for me, too, but I'm not logged in.

Dang.

That was something.

Postby **Warrior 4 Jesus** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:02 pm

Video unavailable (but I'm logged into FaceBook when I try it).
Texting while driving is stupid, as is talking on the phone while driving. It should be illegal in the US, if it isn't already. Driving safely requires full-concentration. We want less idiots on the road, not more.

Postby **Cloud500** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:04 pm

It's illegal in some states. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to stop many people from still doing it.

Postby **Atria35** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:38 pm

Just because it's illegal doesn't mean people stop doing it- kinda like drinking while driving or growing weed. It's illegal in a lot of major places in IL, and that doesn't stop people. A lot of them are the young, stupid (or should I say arrogant or ignorant) teens who just don't realize that it's dangerous.

Postby **goldenspines** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:41 pm

Here's a youtube link to the video for those of you who can't see the facebook one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DebhWD6ljZs

It is very sad. :\

Postby **Furen** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:23 pm

Sheenar (post: 1457021) wrote:It works for me.

I think you have to be logged in to Facebook to view it. The video isn't on YouTube, so I think that's the only link to see it.

I was logged in and it still wasn't

Postby **Nate** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:33 pm

*talks on the phone while driving* >.>;;

Although when I say that, what I mean is I'm not chatting with friends having conversations when I'm on the phone and driving. I'm saying things like "Okay, I'm lost...I'm passing this road right now" or "Yeah I'm on my way, I'm about 30 minutes away." Stuff like that.

Postby **shooraijin** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:10 pm

Warrior 4 Jesus (post: 1457031) wrote:Video unavailable (but I'm logged into FaceBook when I try it).
Texting while driving is stupid, as is talking on the phone while driving. It should be illegal in the US, if it isn't already. Driving safely requires full-concentration. We want less idiots on the road, not more.

In fairness this is true for anything that distracts a driver. Texting and making phone calls just happens to be trendy and obvious, but people eating, fussing with kids, messing with the radio and all those other ridiculous things they do behind the wheel on their morning commute are just as dangerous (and not at all likely to be outlawed explicitly, though well within a cop's purview to ticket for).

Postby **Rusty Claymore** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:34 pm

After almost being plowed into(literally) head on by an old guy texting and driving in my lane, I think texting makes it to the most dangerous distractions tier. Communicating on the Phone about important stuff is closer to permisable, because your eyes can be on the road at all times.

Anyways, one of the worst things I have seen was a person eating soup, driving up-hill on the highway during winter conditions. Both hands were on the soup. I figured they needed to attend a time management class. XD

Postby **Nate** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:50 am

According to a survey, the least dangerous food to eat while driving is fries.

And though soup is pretty bad, apparently the most dangerous is tacos.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:31 am

Rusty Claymore (post: 1457085) wrote:Anyways, one of the worst things I have seen was a person eating soup, driving up-hill on the highway during winter conditions. Both hands were on the soup.

Not to derail the thread, but I once saw a lady putting on makeup while eating with chopsticks. >.> I still don't know how she pulled that off and I was *there* when it happened.

On topic: TWD is even worse for those of us with touch-screen phones. My biggest distraction is choosing a new podcast, which only requires a few glances away from the road - and even then I usually opt not to do it if I'm not the only one on the highway.

Postby **Rusty Claymore** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:33 am

@Mith: O.O That's mystifying.

BoT: Yeah, I was mooching a ride off someone the other day, and in the course of our conversation, they whipped out their Iphone thingy and did an internet search in rush hour traffic. I don't remember much of what he said from there on since I was concentrating on the road, and judging whether or not to lunge for the wheel. XD

Postby **Warrior4Christ** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:59 am

That's quite horrendous.... really sad. Well-made video though.

Postby **Sapphire225** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:46 pm

That's one of the reasons I usually don't trust riding with someone my age. The first reason is because they tend to drive way too fast for my liking on the road. The second is because they they tend to talk on the phone while driving and sometimes text.

My mother has a van, which not only has a navigation system, but one of those things in which allows the van to sync with the phone and allow you to talk on the phone through the radio, allowing you to keep both your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road and able to talk on the phone. I want one of those when I get a car.

But really, casual conversations can wait while you're on the road. Unless you and the drivers around you are made of diamond, texting on the phone can wait.

Postby **Nate** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:15 pm

I just want to point out that during the Superb Owl last night, there was an ad for a car that gives you Facebook status updates. This wasn't a joke ad, or something a third party would install in the car (like the people who installed backlights in the original GBA if you mailed it to them). The manufacturer put in a feature to give you Facebook status updates in your car.

I don't want to live in a world where this exists.

Postby **Sapphire225** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:27 pm

Nate (post: 1457409) wrote:I just want to point out that during the Superb Owl last night, there was an ad for a car that gives you Facebook status updates. This wasn't a joke ad, or something a third party would install in the car (like the people who installed backlights in the original GBA if you mailed it to them). The manufacturer put in a feature to give you Facebook status updates in your car.

I don't want to live in a world where this exists.

...Wow. These companies are getting more creative by the second. still, Facebook statuses? Do they show them on a screen or something are actually read itout to you? That sounds pretty...just wow.

Wait a minute...Superb Owl? That's what I'm talking about!

Postby **Nate** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:48 pm

You press a button and it apparently reads recent posts from your friends list out loud or something. Basically the ad was...eh I'll link it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHDFafqykI&feature=player_embedded

Actually one of the highest rated comments was pretty funny. "Tommy has just sent you a gift in Farmville." But yes, this is literally the worst idea ever.

Postby **mechana2015** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:44 pm

I would see that as a disservice to have that in my car. Or any car.

Postby **Cloud500** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:53 pm

That would be both annoying and distracting.

Postby **mechana2015** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:19 pm

I'm jsut imagining a robotic voice reading out (during some random drive): 'Dude i'm totally hittin' on this chick in vegas and it's awesome wooo.' And having the most awkward person in the car, like your mother-in-law.

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