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Indeed. :yes:
i also smoke when driving, but it helps on long jurneys. having the window down and making you aware of not getting ash over you does seem to wake you up, and being awake is a good idea when driving
I smoke, eat, text and talk on my phone. Roll cigs when I'm smoking baccy and have made quite a few joints whilst driving. I can however drive with my knees very well and whilst doing the other stuff I am still concentrating on the road, using my hands for whatever and steering with my knees.
I know some might say it is stupid but I feel totally in control driving with my knees (I've practiced it for 3yrs) and am fully aware of everything around me. If I see a hazard I put my phone, big mac, drink in between my legs and grap the wheel with my hands. The cigs and joints I roll are on my knee anyway so I'm only taking my eyes off the road for a second at a time (which is exactly what you do when you look in your rear view mirror).
and if you happened to be on the phone and a kid ran in front of you, how would you ever be able to forgive yourself? fair enough, it might well have happened anyway, but would you really want to spend the rest of your life thinking what if?
I also would be gutted for the kid and even more so for his family but this kind of thing doesn't cross my mind whilst doing things whilst driving. I feel totally in control and therefore in my eyes I'm safe and from what people say who have been in my car with me over the past 3 and half years they all feel totally safe aswell.
I haven't even really got an argument to back up why I do these things while driving, I just do them.
You say that you are fully aware while making a joint, how can you be? ...if you take your eyes off the road you are not fully aware, it's that SIMPLE. Can you make a rolly or a joint or txt with your're eyes closed ...no! You have to look at it (even if it for a brief moment). All it takes is that split second for something to run out, your tyre to blow out, the car to brake suddenly in front etc ...and then your fucked, or even worse someone else is fucked becasue of your mistake
Some of you people are mad!
well then for gods sake use your brain and stop before you hurt someone!
That's cos there isn't an argument. I used to all that shit and think I was gods gift to driving, but the road scares me properly nowadays, and that's how it should be. IT'S DANGEROUS. I've known several people locally to get run over and killed, two of my mates dies last year in accidents, and five years ago I almost dies when some stupid bitch wasn't paying attention and pulled out in front of my motorbike! :mad:
Rear view mirror? split second .. . .BANG your into the back of someone.
Looking at your mate holding the drink so you can take it off him to have a sip? split second ...... BANG your into the back of someone.
Looking at the roundabout as you approach it? split second ..... BANG your into the back of someone.
I'm not condoning my actions but your eyes are taken off the road for split seconds all the time for you to drive correctly.
so dont make it worse by adding unnessessary distractions
Driving correctly doesn't involve skinning up or txting people, it does involve checking your mirrors.
If I've got passenger I will talk to them but, I wont look at them. If I want a drink they place it in my hand, and I can keep my eyes where they should be!
You shouldn't be smoking puff behind the wheel anyway. If your in an accident you'll be fucked over by the police, and smokign puff decreases you reaction time as it is!
Exactly.
At the end of the day skinning up, doing you make up, txting, looking for things in you glove box are all pretty stupid and unnessessary.
I do agree, texting, making joints etc. is a lot harder to do and these are the things I need to stop doing. It is not like I do these things daily and are only 1-offs (which doesn't make it right, i know). I have been known to pull over and text and to make joints. or if I've got a passenger (most of the time) they will do it for me.
your "personal oppinion" differs from every scientific study thats ever been done on the subject.
in fact talking on the phone is more dangerous than drink driving.
what makes you any different?
Yeah and I was also stupid!
Just trying to teach someone else that before they end up splitting soemones heart open - like that stupid bitch did to me! :mad:
How can you do it exactly the same. When doing to things at once you have to allocate a certain amoutn of thinking to both tasks. When one of those tasks is potentially very dangerous would it not be safer to put all you thinking and concentration into that? A car is a fucking dangerous bit of machinery, it's a ton of fucking metal, constantly being passed by other huge amounts of metal, travelling at speeds that kill!!!!
Wakey Wakey! :eek2:
Talking on the phone more dangerous than drink driving???? Don't care what any scientific study says, that is bullshit. Only ever crashed my car twice, guess what both times pissed out of my head. Never come close to crashing when on the phone and I've done that a lot more times than I have drove drunk.
Drink drivers are the lowest off scum in my opinion, you are just proving what a careless driver you really are. Why haven't you been banned yet?!
If you're in a serious accident and they find puff in your car you fucked. If you or soemone else is hurt then you insurance aint going to pay a penny. Then this someone else might sue you or you might get banged up.
Drink or drug driving is stupid mate. There is no argument for driving under the influence. That fact that you drive worse when you not stoned is a shit argument.
Got caught once and got away with the charge, when I realised it wasn't worth it. No-one was ever hurt by my actions so I'd say I was lucky.
in which case you are saying that your different. which i assure you your not.
it terrifies me to think there are people like you on the road when i go out, it doesnt matter how safe i drive i could drive at 10 miles below the speed limit at all times, sitting up straight both hands on the wheel at all times not devoting a single brain cell to anything other than careful driving and i could still die horrifically because you were stoned munching and chatting bollocks on the phone whilst "driving carefully"
if your not going to give driving the respect it deserves, dont get behind the wheel. full stop.
i mean put yourself in the other person's shoes. if you were a pedestrian and (heaven forbid) a driver knocked you over and later on it turned out they had been doing something else while driving or driving under the influence, you'd quite rightly be extremely angry and wanting justice. and that's presuming the accident wasn't too serious.
All I can say is that I've had 2 stupid accidents (when pissed) that cost me a LOT of money to fix my car. I've learnt from that. Other than that I've never had an accident and so I am a safe driver.
YET
Yeah...it is scary as fuck that people give it so little respect.
Or just a lucky one so far?!