Eris users: Do You Text While Driving?

[mike54937]

I'm an over the road truck driver and I text while I drive constantly. However ill you all may think of this, keep in mind that I drive 12,000 miles per month between 3 states. THe average person drives 10,000 miles or less per year. When I text while driving, it's almost always on the freeway in remote areas. If other traffic is around I put my phone down. For those of you that want to avoid me, I drive thru western Illinois, right thru Wisconsin and into Minnesota. I believe everyone has different skill levels when it comes to this. I see people everyday that can't drive and use their blinker let alone text and drive. I have received two 1,000,000 miles accident free awards even though I text and drive. I don't know how many millions of miles I've drove in my life but I hace never had any issues due to texting and driving. By the way, I also text while I drive my car and ride my bike so you may want to stay out of Milwaukee, WI also lol

 

[DDustiNN]

I find that it's nearly impossible to text while driving on a touch-screen phone. With my previous phone (RAZR2), I could do it no problem because I didn't even have to look down. Not the case any more, since you can't "feel" where the buttons are. SOMETIMES I may do a quick one at a red light, or at least partial, then finish at the next light. Anyone who says they can do it just fine is simply not a safe driver, no matter what they say or think.

 

[DDustiNN]

In case anyone hasn't seen this...

 

[davros]

I find that it's nearly impossible to text while driving on a touch-screen phone. With my previous phone (RAZR2), I could do it no problem because I didn't even have to look down. Not the case any more, since you can't "feel" where the buttons are. SOMETIMES I may do a quick one at a red light, or at least partial, then finish at the next light. Anyone who says they can do it just fine is simply not a safe driver, no matter what they say or think.

i have to agree..... its impossible to txt with out looking

p.s. that video is burtal

 

[OfTheDamned]

i have to agree..... its impossible to txt with out looking

It's possible, but nobody will have any idea what you are saying.

This is me typing without looking:

Th briwn foesa jumoe igeh the kwxu fpf.

 

[davros]

It's possible, but nobody will have any idea what you are saying.

This is me typing without looking:

Th briwn foesa jumoe igeh the kwxu fpf.

lol... i like to send what the vocice txt app thinks i'm saying....its a game i play .. try and figure out what i did mean

 

[OfTheDamned]

lol... i like to send what the vocice txt app thinks i'm saying....its a game i play .. try and figure out what i did mean

I'm sure it makes just as much sense as what teenagers type when they text.

 

[davros]

lol omg idk gtg ttyl

you can have a conversation with just letters...

http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/acronyms.php


hahahaha

 

[ludist210]

I do, but only if I'm in stand-still traffic or traffic is moving slow enough that I can text and look up without any real danger of hitting someone. If I'm on the highway, I don't.

Buuuuut I know how to turn red traffic lights green. Take out your phone and start to do something important. As soon as you do, they turn. It's like magic!

Sure beats my old super-power. I can stare at red lights and make them turn green. It's a hit at parties.

 

[Frisco]

I can stare at red lights and make them turn green. It's a hit at parties.

You party while driving? That's worse than texting, I think.

 

[textstev]

I used to text no problem with my original iPhone while driving but I don't drive much anymore, so haven't done it much on the Eris.

 

[refthemc]

Yes, but then again I'm not the safest driver lol

 

[synikal]

Nah, I just swype!

 

[carmendiva]

I do and I put make-up on(like lipgloss or what have you)
But I stopped doing it as much.

My friend had dropped her cell while she was driving and this bitch(excuse my language) had the nerve to bend down while on the middle of the interstate going 70 miles an hour to pick it up. Like it really couldn't wait another 10 minutes or better yet...ASK ME TO GET IT

After that, I decided I'd tone it down because I don't want to be TOO ADDICTED to my cell