I belong to a internet Porsche car club, in this thread the guys are discussing banning of cell phones while driving. Most of our members are trades to professionals. They are all products of the California PS school system and all are over 30 years old. Cut and paste, the only thing I edited was the names and some of the expletives.

The horror….

QUOTE(joey @ Aug 27 2010, 06:29 PM)

Cap’n it not for phone use. It’s a speedometer and a music player. With bigger tires, my speedo is off and the GPS speedometer keeps me out of trouble, and I want the mp3 hooked up to play music through the radio, and I don’t want the iphone bouncing around the car.

I agree on cell phone. Hands Off speakers work pretty good but if you have to hold a phone, pull off the road. Go look at some of the Bluetrek speakers that mount flat on the visor.

QUOTE(red914 @ Aug 28 2010, 09:27 AM)

i got more issues with drivers pulling over in bad spot to talk on teh phone really bad to park in a bike lane to talk, or on a narrow shoulder, but h*ll thats the law.

stupid law, just pull the liscenc eof a guilty driver that what they need to do, the cell phone law is dumb, i could talk on the phjone and drive safely cuase I knew what my attention should be attractes to, the driving conditions, but now it is illegal for me to saefly use a phone whilest driving, yet had a lady totaly my 914 in a crash cuase she was distracted by a can of orange soda pop she spilled, she treid to clean it up while driving and ran a red light right into me at 45 mph!

may the politicans shoudl punish orange soda drinkers?

how about a law that if you cause a crash your cant drive no more regardless if you are distracted by a phone, one of them electronic maps, or the radio, your CB or any thing at all . not paying attention is the problem but the stupid suck a** politians cant figure that out, so good old fat pig senator simitian gave us the stupid cell phone law. (dumbsh** forgot to ban texting however,)

Quote Cap’n @ Aug 28 2010, 01:19 PM

I agree with some of your points. However, when was the last time you EVER heard of having a driver’s license pulled stopping someone from driving? It ain’t gonna happen. And hands off phone accessories are only barely safer than holding the phone yo your ear, if at all.

The Cap’n

My 12 yr. old daughter is active on facebook, monitored by me. She is homeschooled and her grammar and spelling is almost always correct. I cannot say the same about her “schooled” friends. I have had to stop her from correcting them as that could backfire socially. The fact that she notices and is annoyed tells me that homeschooling was the correct choice.