On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Mike Sloane <[email protected]> wrote:
> A distraction is a distraction, whether it is spoken or poking buttons. The > skills of the average driver these days are bad enough without adding this > kind of foolishness. Last Monday, I was a passenger in a car and I observed a fellow in front of us who was trying to input some information into a GPS unit that was mounted on his windshield as he was moving down the road at about 45 mph. I had noticed his vehicle, a minivan, weaving around as the car I was riding in kept getting closer, and at first I assumed he was on a cell phone. Getting closer revealed that the he was working with his GPS unit, and that was the cause of his weaving about on the roadway. He suddenly weaved to the right again, this time forcing someone in a pickup truck in the right lane to have to dodge onto the shoulder of the road in order to avoid a collision. The guy farting around with the GPS unit remained totally unaware and apparently oblivious to the problems he was creating. A pox on all these electronic and other distracting devices in vehicles. A pox on those who futz around with them while driving as well. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
