How many?

 How many of the drivers involved in this video

http://www.jumpingpixels.com/405fwy.html

were doing one or more of the following:

1) Yaking on cellphones
2) Changing CD's in the CD player
3) Digging through the files in their briefcases
4) Eating
5) Watching movies on the in dash DVD player




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 Bobbie (remove-this) wrote:

Daaaamn... What retards. That first car that hit the van didn't even
look like it was braking at all. I bet the dumbass driver was later
saying, "That van just jumped out at me from nowhere, I didn't see it
at all!".

I guess that's what happens when you drive distracted (like you're
saying above) or looking no further ahead than the taillights of the
car in front of you. Most accidents are caused by poor situational
awareness. A huge majority of drivers have serious tunnel vision and
simply don't notice things happening around them.

I've witnessed many, many dangerous situations that would never happen
if the drivers involved knew what's going around them and anticipated
what might happen. The classic example of that is at highway entrances
- car A is in the middle lane, next to car B in the right lane, while
car C is trying to get on the highway. It's fairly unusual for B to
notice C. And it's EXTREMELY rare for A to notice what C and B are
doing, realize that B may want to move to the middle lane to give C
room, and either speed up or slow down to allow B to change lanes.

Driving is not as easy as people think it is, and those that think it's
easy only think that because they don't do all the things that a driver
should do.

-Gniewko

 lubecki@hotmail.com wrote:

I see one situation almost every day and it makes me cringe. I commute 12
miles on a 5-lane freeway (4 lanes + 1 carpool lane) and the regular lanes are
almost always stop-and-go at around 5 MPH. The traffic in the carpool lane is
typically moving at 45-65 MPH.

Several times a day I'll see some asshat moving at 2-3 MPH merge over into the
carpool lane without bothering to do a headcheck or check their mirrors right
into the path of someone moving 40-50 MPH faster than they are. That this
doesn't result in carnage every day proves that at least the drivers in the
carpool lane *are* paying attention and almost always slow down in time to
avoid a nasty high-speed rear ender.

 

well said.....I once saw a lady clipping coupons out of a flyer with
scissors while driving on rt. 128 is Mass.