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08-27-2010, 07:20 AM | #1 |
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Distracted Boating Article
Not sure if I should have posted in Issues but found this interesting article re. distracted boating.
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08-27-2010, 07:40 AM | #2 |
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All for it.
Distracted boating law. That is the difference between now and a decade ago. Cell phones! Can't leave home without it!
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08-27-2010, 08:34 AM | #3 |
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Can we stop policing everyone else and just concentrate on ourselves seriously
The coast guard people should be repremanded as they shoudl know best and thats it, not to the memebers here, but in general across the country, I hate that when something happens instead of saying that was stupid or where is their common sense, there is a "Call to Arms" to protect everyone from themselves.
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'Think that case can't be "$quashed"? 2) Years ago, I was at the wheel when a cellphone was handed to me to answer a question. This was a first time for me, but when answering that call, I got the sense that someone had put a burlap bag over my head! I could barely use what remained of my situational-awareness: I became a passenger—behind the wheel of my own car! Never again, while driving, will I be so distracted! 3) I don't have a working cellphone—meaning, the battery is long-dead, not that I tried to use my cellphone in Wolfeboro or Alton . But I have sat at many an intersection, and watched the cross-traffic red light get "busted"—mostly by drivers who are alone in their cars holding a cellphone to their ear. (This can also be observed after dark). It's been shown that "hands-free" makes no difference—it's where your "head is at": with a cellphone, that absense of situational-awareness is taking innocent lives. 4) In Japan, the owners of restaurants and movie theaters are legally permitted to put electronic blanking devices inside their establishments to halt those patrons who would interrupt a meal (or a significant cinematic moment) with stoopid cellphone conversations. People have been threatened with jail-time for having a cellphone ring in U.S. courtrooms posted against the ringing of cellphones! 5) The Coast Guard memo itself can be read here, and is bolded: http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...6&postcount=51 --------------------------------- --------------------------------- (In support: One example, but not in the Lakes Regon, so it's somewhat off-topic): In Florida, the traffic lights at the intersection of South Miami's 80th Street and US1 were marched towards traffic about 500-feet. This was to allow cellphone-distracted drivers to pass through the intersection without colliding with anyone. This one intersection 1600 miles away from the Lakes Region is significant as it illustrates how a sub-segment of a citizenry can affect so many others. Because of the many accidents, accident-affected commuters used our neighborhood to speed through. Through neighborhood activism, the County was influenced to install Armco barriers to traffic—making an entire 200-home neighborhood a dead-end street! The only detractor who would refuse to sign the petition later apologized to me for his recalcitrance. (He was near-neighbor). The bottom lines? 1) Traffic backups were already bad, when careless use of cellphones resulted in the denial of useful "lanes" to the public. 2) The driving-citizen who would need traffic "relief" after crashes at that intersection was denied passage through neighborhood streets that they paid taxes into, to pave! Sometimes it happens that the carelessness of a sub-segment of a citizenry can have significant, even distant, ramifications, and can jeopardize our freedoms. |
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And, don't grab that cup of coffee....................
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"Inattention Blindness"...
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But hands-free cell phones don't heighten safety. The University summation follows, but I found the last paragraph significant: Quote:
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"Missing exits" was a common error among drivers using cellphones. Recollection of billboard messages disappeared. Quote:
It is where "your head is at".
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