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Texting or chatting hands free in the car
"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:34:37 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>> "gregz" > wrote in message
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>> > "Ophelia" > wrote:
>> >> "gregz" > wrote in message
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>> >>> I recently rammed a car in front of me. Proof, any distraction can
>> >>> turn
>> >>> disaster when a car suddenly stops in front if you. I think I was
>> >>> looking
>> >>> around at the stores along the road in a heavy area. I needed that
>> >>> extra
>> >>> second or two I lost.
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>> >> Oh dear I hope no one was injured?
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>> > She, said all was ok. I later heard about some kind of injury report. A
>> > child was in rear car seat. Her cadilac look pretty good, but the front
>> > of
>> > my Subaru was messed up.
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>> > I have been victim of getting my rear slammed a couple times. Perhaps I
>> > was
>> > an instigator with my driving habits of stopping fast at stop signs and
>> > red lights.
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>> Could be We have that amber light we were discussing earlier which
>> comes
>> in before the red which shows it is about to come on.
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> We have the yellow caution light too. Not sure why anyone thinks it's
> a novel idea... the problem with our caution lights is that it's so
> quick. Some of them are no longer than one or two seconds. With City
> driving, you won't get a chance to make a turn until the oncoming
> traffic's light is red and you won't be able to make the turn unless
> you're in the middle of the intersection waiting for a break in
> traffic (that's how you know it's either an inexperienced driver or
> someone from out of town). Allowing autos to turn is one of the
> reasons why caution lights are so quick and there's a delay before the
> cross traffic gets the green in urban areas.
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>> We seem to have a rule here though that the driver behind is always to
>> blame for not giving the car in front enough space to stop.
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> Tailgating is frowned upon here too and even if you're in the right,
> you're still technically wrong when you rear-end someone.
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