[ale] dialing on Android and driving will kill you and others.

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:01 AM, George Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Of course -- people used to be able to do this too, when they were
> smart enough to learn how to use the rules, brakes and turn signals in
> addition to the gas, wheel and horn.
>
> Interferes with the eating/dialing/texting/makeup/phoning/kids/etc.

Of course using a signal is now interpreted to the following driver as "the
blinking light indicates a hole to be filled not by the car with the
blinking light".

I was once passed on the right at an intersection while I was signaling a
proper right turn in the right lane. Driver behind me jumped right and sped
around me as I was beginning the turn. Lucky for both I was looking hard
right (further than needed for the turn) and caught the motion in my
peripheral vision.

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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

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