How would you curb distracted driving?

Speaking to anyone who uses/has used their phone while driving, you know who you are, let's be honest with ourselves. Personally, I will take my eyes off the road to change the song on my ipod (which is essentially inside my phone since i have an iphone). But how ridiculous is that? I am risking my life for a split second so I can jam out to a OMG by Usher feat. Will.i.am on my way to class. It's absurd, really.

I think the best and only real solution would be if everyone personally made a conscious effort to change their behavior for the safety of our roads.

Whatever it is, it can wait.

If I teach you guys the trick you have to use it wisely because I've been completely ran off the road myself by the move.

1. From the driver seat of your car make eye contact with the distracted driver. Make sure they notice you.

2. As soon as you have there attention start making angry gestures as if your really angry and swearing at the person. Most people attention will fall on you as they try and comprehend what your saying. If not flip them the bird if you have to just to keep there attention.

3. This is where you execute the move. As soon as they get the look on there face like "What the hell is this guys problem?" Grab the steering wheel and instead of gripping the wheel let your hands hover over the wheel but pretend you just jerked the wheel as if your going to push them off the road but don't really turn the wheel. It has to be so dramatic they are convinced it's real. Put your shoulders into it.

4. Watch in amazement as the phone is instantly dropped from there hands and they swerve out of your way to avoid a collision that was never going to happen. I was checking out a guys girlfriend in a car next to me one time when he got me with this trick. It takes practice to execute convincingly but when done right will have someone in the shoulder of the road wondering why someone would do such a thing about the time you realize they never really swerved.

I drove past the guy at the next light and the guy and the girl were in tears laughing so hard at my reaction that I just laughed it off. If you guys get someone hurt during this it's all your fault though. Mine was on a slow moving street close to a street light and there was nothing next to me to run into. Don't get anyone hurt if you pull this move people.I swerved clean off the road and the car next to me didn't move towards me at all.

I do not think a such device can be created. There will always be some type of distraction while driving. It can be the radio, kids, something on your mind, something you see on the street, cellphone, sunglasses, and the list goes on and on.

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considering that i get distracted quite often whenever i do drive if not by singing and dancing , or yelling children or even just looking for miscellaneous things...i would say create a device that only allows your radio to reach a certain decibel so that everything outside of the car is still audible i.e. horns pedestrians talking (because sometimes you can hear something or someone before you see them) or whistles that traffic cops use...as for looking for things that is the drivers discretion i have often thought twice and pulled over to the side of the road to look for something-not always though, as for yelling children well depending on a driver's rush status again pulling over to the side of the road to quell an infant or toddler is the best option, and i dont use a cellphone when i drive, i either turn it off completely or turn the ringer off and put it in the glove compartment, my phone isn't really that important to me anyway. So creating a device can help but also cause another distraction because some people like to fiddle with things including myself but it still would help some, i think practicing better responsible driving is the best option...

shock therapy lol... your eyes deviate for more then 3 seconds you get a jolt of focus :D

We need better driver education. Several European countries have per capita death rates that are almost 1/3 of ours.

Number of deaths per 100,000 members of the population
United Kingdom 5.81
Sweden 5.88
Norway 6.01
.......
USA 14.75

http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/statistics/stats-multicountry-pe...

how about putting contact studs for electric shocks into cell phones that activate a mild shock if they detect that they're traveling over running speed? you'd have to turn them off or plug them into a hands free device to use them in a car or on a bike!

i would take my bike hah :D

people get distracted by things that are much less interesting than cell phones and radios...ike fingernails, bugers, and thinking.

I wouldn't, I would curb driving itself. Bring back the robot self driving cars. Not a single one ever got into a carwreck!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driverless_car

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_car

"Friends don't let friends drink and drive... Intelligent cars don't let you drive at all." -Me circa now.

hit people in the face with the back of your palm several times.

repeat.

repeat.

repeat.

Radically reduce the number of distractions bombarding the general public every day. Between Twitter, facebook, email, commercials, television, radio, and others, we've become a culture devoid of any valuable attention span. Eliminate these distractions, get people focused on the tasks in front of them as a matter of practice, not as an exception to their everyday lives.

Yeah, try writing that into legislation.

Too many people drive. Period.

A device that is programmed into the car that completely cancels out the signals from your cellphone, you cant receive or send texts, and if theres and emergency you just step out of the car.

Flip off the distracted driver and challenge them to a race...while talking on my cell phone (without a headset of course) and reading a newspaper.

Rumble seats!

A Kryptonite bike lock to the hood works pretty well.

First off, Stop using flashy emergency highway billboards to say "No distracted driving! Phone in one hand, ticket in the other!" because A. Its like reading an over sized text message that takes 30 seconds to read the whole thing and B. Makes me ignore that signs all together so i might miss some important information.
Second. increase the fines and make texting and driving a higher fine.
Third, find a target age group. Are more people 16- 14 being pulled over more? then increase the penalty.
Fourth, make car phone easier to afford and install. Maybe even have a promotion day like sign a no distracted driving petition or something and get so and so perfect off the product.

Have them drive a car that blows up if you don't keep both hands on the wheel.

The key is to get people to realize what a deleterious effect distractions have on driving. Perhaps a spin or two in a simulator for new drivers?