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Re: Texting
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 11, 2013, 11:27 am
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I lose my cool when I see people texting while driving. They are
putting everyone in danger. It's sad that this is even
happening.
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Re: Texting
By: Mac Date: April 11, 2013, 11:45 am
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Like one of the early posters, I'm starting to flip the finger
to these inconsiderate dangerous jerks.
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Re: Texting
By: Mac Date: May 30, 2013, 12:12 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]VOTD: Werner Herzog Directs Sobering ‘Don’t Text
While Driving’ PSA[/glow]
[quote]Werner Herzog certainly has his playful side, but “stern
and serious” might be his most natural tone. That makes him an
ideal director to craft a simple but very effective message
about the dangers of texting while driving. The Grizzly Man
director contributes to AT&T’s “It Can Wait” ad campaign with
this short promo featuring a mother and her son, who was gravely
injured by a driver who failed to keep her eyes on the road. The
subjects and their story are powerful, and Herzog presents them
in an elegant, unforgettable manner. [/quote]
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVZqeAGY-A&list=PL7FEF61DA1F5293A0
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Re: Texting
By: Mac Date: May 30, 2013, 12:14 pm
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The Scared Straight of Texting
Warning: Graphically disturbing
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCegx22IzdY
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Re: Texting
By: Mac Date: June 3, 2014, 11:13 am
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Thumb socks
HTML https://www.dosomething.org/campaigns/thumb-wars#/
WTF... but hey, wish I thought of it, if it makes me money ;D
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Re: Texting
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 3, 2014, 11:30 am
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Clever. But it still doesn't help cure athlete's thumb. ;D
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Re: Texting
By: Mac Date: June 13, 2014, 11:41 am
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Volkswagen Scared an Entire Movie Theater Into Not Texting While
Driving
[quote]Here's a pretty brilliant way to get people to stop
texting and driving. Volkswagen played a new ad before the
previews at a movie theater in Hong Kong recently. The first 10
seconds were of a car driving down a road, from the driver's
point of view.
Then they sent a text message to everyone in the theater at the
exact same time. And when people looked down to check their
phone, the car CRASHED. Then a message about texting and
driving popped up on the screen. It's probably staged, but
still.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHixeIr_6BM
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Re: Texting
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 9, 2014, 8:33 am
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Brilliant. Hopefully all of them took something away from this
and will change their behavior.
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Re: Texting
By: Mac Date: July 11, 2014, 8:18 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Get Tougher on Texting While Driving, Americans
Say[/glow]
Poll finds support for stricter enforcement, harsher penalties
[quote]By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, June 26, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans want
stricter enforcement of texting-while-driving laws and stiffer
penalties for violators, according to a new survey.
The National Safety Council poll found that 73 percent of
respondents wanted more enforcement of texting and driving laws,
compared with 22 percent who found current enforcement levels
satisfactory.
When asked about punishments for violators, 52 percent of
respondents favored a point system that could lead to the loss
of a driver's license or higher car insurance costs. About half
supported large fines, and half said there should be different
levels of penalties for first and repeat offenders.
"For years, there has been widespread opposition to texting
behind the wheel," safety council president and CEO Deborah
Hersman said in a council news release. "Today, the polls show
the public is behind stronger penalties because most people
recognize that it will take more than awareness campaigns to
stop this dangerous behavior."
The poll findings were released as part of National Safety Month
in June.
No state bans all cellphone use while driving. Thirteen states
and the District of Columbia ban the use of handheld cellphones
by drivers, and 44 states and the District of Columbia ban
texting while driving.
Talking on a cellphone -- either handheld or hands-free -- is
believed to be a factor in 21 percent of crashes. An additional
5 percent of crashes are related to texting, according to the
council.
The council offered the following tips to prevent distracted
driving:
Make a personal pledge to not use a cellphone while driving.
Turn your cellphone off or put it on silent while driving so
that you're not tempted to answer it.
If you're in a car with a driver who's on a cellphone, ask
if you can take the call instead or if the call can wait.
On your cellphone's voicemail message, tell callers you're
either away from the phone or driving, and you'll call them back
when you can do so safely.
If you're talking to someone who is driving, tell the person
to hang up and call you later.
[/quote]
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Re: Texting
By: Mac Date: August 20, 2014, 4:59 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Some Chinese theaters are projecting audience
text-messages onto movies[/glow]
HTML http://cdn.thedissolve.com/articles/3019/detail.673a9803.jpg
[quote]Want to combine the annoyances of laser-pointers, bright
cell phones in a darkened theater, and audience members talking
incessantly through a movie? Take a trip to China, where a few
theaters are experimenting with projecting moviegoers’ texts
onto the screen during the show. According to The Hollywood
Reporter, the text-along-with-a-movie idea is part of Chinese
exhibitors’ plans to bring back younger viewers, who are used to
watching movies on their portable devices while texting their
comments back-and-forth with friends. Filmmakers who don’t want
their work shown this way can opt out, but the THR article
quoted one director who said that he thinks the Chinese film
industry should welcome the instant feedback. The program is
still in the early stages, and audience reaction so far has
reportedly been mixed-to-negative—which is encouraging.
Will this idea spread to the United States? Well, it already has
in a way: The Alamo Drafthouse hosts “HeckleVision” screenings
of terrible movies, allowing the audience to do its best Mystery
Science Theater 3000 impression via text messages that are
projected alongside the film. And so long as this remains a
“special screening for those who want it” kind of deal, there’s
really nothing to fear here. (Though I personally would have no
interest even in an MST3K-style text-along experience, because I
remember how terrible the fan-made Mystery Science Theater riffs
use to be back in the message-board days.)
What would be terrible is if the opposite comes true: If
text-along movies became the norm, and theatergoers would have
to pay a premium to sit in a quiet, fully darkened auditorium.
Who can we text to prevent that from happening?
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