According to a report I heard on National Pravda Radio the other day, talking on a cell phone while driving impairs the driver far worse than alcohol does. They put people on simulators and had them talk on the phone, then they did the same thing only got the people drunk first. The talkers had several accidents, the drunks had none. Dont know the details as far as how challenging the test was or how hammered the drivers were, but still......
I know cell phone drivers have nearly hit me multiple times while commuting to work. What I hate the most is people text messaging while driving. Some broad was weaving in and out of lanes in rush hour traffic yesterday next to me while I was on my bike. She was texting someone. Either that or dialing a number in China or Japan for as long as she was typing on her keypad.
David
kingston73 wrote:I think some people just aren't meant to ride a cycle. Here in RI we have a mandatory MSF course if you don't already have an out-of-state endorsment. I had 2 idiots in my class, 1 a 17 year old kid who as a first bike bought a Yamaha R1 (1000cc race bike). He'd already crashed twice, once when he did an endo and flipped his bike forward and upside down, the other when he tried to do a wheelie and went all the way over backwards. The other guy was clearly afraid of the bikes (RI uses 250cc Nighthawks and Rebels) . I still don't know how he managed to do this, but during one of the exercises he pinned the throttle, went uphill, out of the parking lot, over a sidewalk, up the grass on the other side, and crashed into a garage door on a shed nearby. I don't know how he managed it, but he was ok. He put a dent in the door and bent the bike's fork though.