Eating while driving causes 80% of all car accidents

[Aemeth]

So if the next time you're in your car and you see a call come through and its not important

If no calls are important enough to justify killing someone, this whole post has no foundation.

But, that aside, like I said, I don't/rarely take the kind of calls you described. And again, my close calls have never really been that close because I am smart about when and what calls I take.

if you would have posted something like this originally, I would have taken it a lot better. It just tasted bad to me, the way you did it. Like going into VU in an Atheism thread and posting a link to BillyGraham.com instead of explaining your position.

[AYHJA]

"I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem,"

;)

[Aemeth]

Lol :)

[jdog]

Been in car accidents myself. Food was never a cause. I won't eat unless I'm on a highway though. Higher speeds you'd think it would be more dangerous, but there just are less cars compacted together and no stop lights.

I'd have to agree with cell phones/texting as a giant contributor. There are also drunks and plain idiots that shouldn't even be on the road. When I was in Florida I can't tell you how many rollover accidents there were because drivers were just idiots. Heck, there was a van once full of immigrant workers, none of them except for the driver wearing a seatbelt. For whatever reason the van was driving erratically and it rolled numerous times. Everyone inside it died except for the driver.

So leading contributions to car accidents I would say are...

1. Idiots
2. Texting
3. Food
4. DUI

[Drew]

I hate when bad scientists go out and do fieldwork and write even worse shit like the article linked here. Without the research, the only thing we can go off of is the simple sentence "Distractions like eating can become a problem for drivers who can't react quickly to a sharp curve"

Key words "distractions LIKE eating"...so eating doesn't cause 80% of car accidents, distractions do. Eating is just one of them.

Now I actually would believe that distractions cause 80% Eating alone? Get the hell out of here.

[Aemeth]

^interesting, wonder if that is true...

[Drew]

Wonder if what's true?

[jdog]

I hate when bad scientists go out and do fieldwork and write even worse shit like the article linked here. Without the research, the only thing we can go off of is the simple sentence "Distractions like eating can become a problem for drivers who can't react quickly to a sharp curve"

Key words "distractions LIKE eating"...so eating doesn't cause 80% of car accidents, distractions do. Eating is just one of them.

Now I actually would believe that distractions cause 80% Eating alone? Get the hell out of here.

I would agree. Here's something to reinforce that logic...

http://www.dailytech.com/Texting+Increa ... e15800.htm

[AYHJA]

IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle says he learned a lesson last month after crashing his car into an Austin apartment building while he was text messaging.

Appearing Wednesday at Big 12 media days, Kindle said Texas coach Mack Brown took disciplinary action against him but declined to provide specifics. He said the punishment didn't involve suspensions from practices or games.

The senior from Dallas says the wreck was a wake-up call, and that he had spent the past few weeks rebuilding his credibility with teammates.

A police spokeswoman says no charges have been filed against Kindle, who says he wasn't drinking at the time of the crash. He wound up with a concussion.

Kindle had 53 tackles and 10 sacks last year.