Using mobile phone when driving

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[quote author=celticdog link=topic=21570.msg248187#msg248187 date=1482393452]
You right Dave,(&Darrsi) there's no excuse. I think long term it won't be an issue as the technology is being integrated within the car. E.g. your phone will automatically link with the car and all calls will go to car speaker with the caller's details displayed on the dash. In the meantime it seems as if we need to suffer these idiots.

But do we really need to chat whilst driving? Is it really that important? It wasn't 20 odd years ago and we seemed to get by okay.
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Now I am an old foccer but what gets me is how people cant even walk down the street without their phone on talking to someone. Young & not so young women pushing buggies into road without looking for traffic. Even so-called "intelligent" university students walking out from pavement without any awareness of danger. As celticdog says the vehicle technology is here or on the way-I had an onboard central console that functioned as satnav, phone display & audio centre with phone buttons on steering wheel in a Merc Sprinter 9 years ago.
I am not a "Luddite"but wonder if the technology is ahead of the average humans attention span. I see kids leaving primary school without basic literary/language skills but they know all about their smartphones/facebook/etc
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One thing i notice a lot when reading daily online news, is that reporters can't spell these days.
In fact they are so appalling at it, i make a point of making them aware of how shit their grammar has consistently been every day.
This must have something to do with not putting pen to paper, but even still they'll release stories that even their spellchecker hasn't resolved? 
And now we have phone/laptop/tablet technology where you don't even need to type any more, you just speak to the gadget instead!
Yes, it is a very quick and brilliant concept, but i can't help feeling it's making people so lazy that they're not learning or refreshing their own skills as much as they really should be.


(typed with my own fingers)
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Here's a perfect example of more embarrassing reporting. I'm looking at it wondering what he'd be retrained in, then realise it's meant to be "restrained", and this is a headline as well so they should easily spot the error. I see this so often, and although it's general laziness by not checking it before releasing it, it is also people becoming more reliant on technology.  :rolleyes