Here’s my story:
I’m livid about dashboard bells and whistles. When I saw a Ford ad with a bubbly young woman named Kelly using the new souped-up system to gab on the phone hands-free and not paying attention to the road, I turned to my wife and complained, “I don’t think drivers should be doing any of that.”
I continued, “See if I ever buy a Ford again.”
Here’s another story:
Ray LaHood, the secretary of transportation, is livid about the dashboard bells and whistles. When he saw a Ford ad with a bubbly young woman named Kelly using the new souped-up system to gab on the phone hands-free and not paying attention to the road, he called Alan Mulally, the president and CEO of Ford.
Lahood, commenting later, noted, “I don’t think drivers should be doing any of that.”
He continued, “We’ll see what the auto companies can do voluntarily and what we need to do otherwise.”
Offend me — the consumer — by your actions and I will exercise my dollar vote. Offend the state and you had better learn to kowtow.
Note: I am not really offended by the ad — an ad I have never seen. Nor dashboard bells and whistles.
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I love the doublespeak there. No, it’s not that these parasites are deciding to abuse their power, it’s that they need to.
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What’s next? Will the State ban passengers? There’s nothing different between talking to the person in the seat next to you and talking on a hands-free phone.
Later on, they will ban certain distracting gestures like picking your nose, LOL !!!!
If you drive and shove a finger up in your nose because your nose is itching and a cop sees you, you could be fined for dangerous driving, ha ha ha ha ha
Don’t scratch and drive, lol ha ha ha ha
Driving while feeling itches will be considered driving under influence, lol !!
Next, sneezing will be outlawed so if your nose itches, you will have to park your car by the roadside so you can sneeze safely, ha ha ha ha
Farts will also be outlawed, especially passenger farts because the smell of staunch stink can dangerously distract the driver, not to mention start a loud talkative argument between the drive and the farting passenger
Don’t fart and drive, lol !!!
D.U.I. Drive Under Inflatulence, ha ha ha ha
The cops will give fart tickets if your farts exceed the stink limit, ha ha ha ha
Or worse, you lose your model girlfriend.
Wow, that was absolutely funny, LOL !
Thanks for the laugh !
“Offend the state and you had better learn to kowtow.”
Good idea, KOW TOW TOW TOW TOW TOW TOW … ha ha ha ha ha ha
I was appalled by the superbowl ad in which the guy hops into his car and, hands-free, checks his date’s facebook page. Not only did the application grate, but he was “driving” like he was a little kid behind the wheel of a stationary car, or a supporting role in a 70′s B-movie where the car’s being shaken by stage hands and the same tree branches are looped in the background.
And yet some of you think you can limit the State to some mythical size?
Cops talk on their patrol-car radios all the time — how come they can safely do it, but it’s a horrible risk if civilians do it ?
Take a close look at a parked police car sometime…. the driver’s position is crammed with all kinds of radios, computer-screens/keyboards, and electronics. More Bells & Whistles than any other cars on the road.
Aircraft pilots (especially fighter pilots) routinely fly complex, 3-dimensional maneuvers while talking on the radio… with many other distractions. How is that humanly possible ??
It’s simply a matter of discipline & awareness. Most people can easily & safely talk on a cellfone or to car passengers— it just requires a little mental focus and a moderate amount of driving experience.
Of course, there’s always a minority of drivers who choose not to routinely focus on driving… when they are actually driving — and, thus any possible distraction becomes an actual safety risk.
Cellfones ain’t the problem — it’s lack of focus & discipline in some drivers.
There are many things that are “legal” and “safe” for a police officer to do but which instantly becomes “illegal” and “dangerous” when it’s a normal citizen who does it.
This creates a second class citizen mentality. Cops are above the law and think they are God.
Not too long ago, in Florida, I came up behind a car that had its on-board DVD player going. (It was nighttime, so it was easy to see from a hundred feet back.) Anyway, when I caught up to the car at the stoplight, I realized it wasn’t an onboard DVD player, keeping the kids in the back seat amused. It was a laptop computer on the dashboard… of a police car. At least he wasn’t texting, eh?
I thought a lot more fuss would be paid to the cute kid in the Darth Vader costume, who thinks he started his Dad’s VW, after his pop uses the remote starter.
Kid standing in front of the vehicle and all….
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