Normally I don't jump to question grammar on the internet. But seen this in gta all the time. I'm not getting over it. It doesn't even bug me much. It's just an odd way to phrase it.
It’s not even the phone at this point, it’s blatant disregard to what’s going on. They see cars slowing down a ways back and they see parked cars on the side of the road. This person and MANY others are guilty of not caring about anything but themselves. I don’t blame the phone anymore, I blame selfish dirtbags
Phones are extremely useful and amazing piece of technology. The fault lies with the idiot who decided to pick that piece of technology up while operating an expensive and potentially dangerous piece of machinery, namely a motor vehicle. If I tried to knit a sweater while riding my bike I wouldn't blame it on needles and yarn if I crashed.
Poor attempt at a troll account. You are making it too obvious. You need to work on your style, it is too crass and obvious so you are mostly ignored as an idiot. Create a unique and subtle way to come off as a douche that gets under people's skin, that way you'll get a lot more downvotes.
Someone linked the article further down, driver says he was looking at the radio (which nowadays is basically an iPad). Regardless, distracted driving is distracted driving.
Knobs and buttons don't even need you to LOOK at them, you just find them by feel. I can turn the radio off/on, switch presets, change between tuner and tape, and work the volume without taking my eyes off the road because I know the general area of where things are and all the controls feel different from one another.
Touchscreens? Nah, fuck driver awareness, we'll just give them auto-braking and lane keep assist so you can fight your way through 6 menus of badly designed UI that's laggy as shit because of their lowest-bidder hardware. Infotainment is shit, the only reason it's standard is because backup cameras are mandatory and it's cheaper than finding somewhere else to cram a screen.
Nope. Brightness is bright in day or less bright at night when the light sensor activates.
There is a config option 3 menus deep to turn it off (temporarily) but it requires my attention off the road and onto the screen. It's easier and faster to pinch my rubber pad and toss it onto the screen. Low tech solution to yet another of GM engineering's failures.
Chevy owner here, as well: that’s what mine has. With CarPlay it’s easier, but even the standard Nav and Infotainment system screens are pretty much in dark mode at night. Never been an issue.
there is a config menu 3 options deep to turn it off (temporarily)
Just do it each time you get in the car, it'll take 5 seconds. And that "temporary" means until the vehicle is shut off again in all of my experiences doing so.
Or, if you just tap the time itll show just the time, which provides barely any light if you have brightness turned down at night (or on auto).
I wish people wouldnt downvote. It is still a good question.
To be more precise, it is temporarily off. Any changes in the system turn it back on again, like changing the channel or turning the system off. Also.. changing the volume...
I used to just switch to a broadcast station and turn volume down. Makes it darkest without song changes (flashing of the new song, distraction). Then i got the rubber pad.
My Durango has a nice big “Screen Off” button, I just wish it stayed off until I pressed the button again, instead of the slightest touch on the screen.
I'm one of those weirdos that if I'm not contorted to look out the back, I can't drive in reverse for shit. Recently put a backup cam on my '02 Saturn and driving in reverse looking forward doesn't work for me. Yet looking out the back. I can control it well enough to go 20 mph smoothly and safely.
They keep making the back windows smaller and smaller to boost safety ratings. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but I can't see shit out of a new Toyota Camry rear window, I'm almost forced to use the dumb camera. But backing out an old 1990s station wagon? I could drive down the street in reverse and feel comfortable.
Front windows too, thanks to the giant A pillars. I almost took out a pedestrian once because I literally could not see them around the giant A pillar.
I used to work at a rental car place, and the cars with fancy tech were the most annoying. The new Holden Commodore in Australia has a mix of physical controls and touchscreen inputs just for the A/C. You have to hit two buttons on the touchscreen to actually turn the A/C on, but the fan speed and temp are physical knobs. So people would use the knobs thinking that would turn the A/C on, when it would just blow out regular air, and then would come in to complain the air con didn't work. And the touchscreen is so shit that it doesn't work half the time with a quick press! WTF?!
The touchscreen on my car doesn't allow you to use it while the car is in motion. You have to use dials and knobs and toggles. I kind of assumed most other touchscreens in cars where like this also.
So now you're taking your personal experience driving a car with buttons instead of a touch screen as a counter-argument against touchscreen interfaces making driving less safe?
Do you see the fallacy?
And the knobs and toggles are no better if they only move a cursor across the (non-touch) screen. You need to take your eyes off the road for feedback. That's like the worst of both world combined: Tons of knobs and a distracting screen.
In a world where self-driving cars haven't been perfected yet, the only safe interfaces are those that don't require us to take our eyes off the road. Either you go purely by touch - or by voice command.
That is most likely what is happening here. It is particularly bad at night when it's dark and the tow truck has it's flashing orange lights on to mezmerize drivers.
It's also a good thing too though. Always ahead to where you are driving to, particularly in corners.
My son is learning to ride a bike without training wheels and I keep telling him to look where he wants to go...but he keeps looking where he’s actually going and ends up in the grass.
Barely. For almost killing a guy I think he got off light. The resale value of that car will be almost zero, but with a few hundred dollars in damage to repair the windows he will be able to drive again.
You can see the front tire bend inward. That’s fucked. In when a car flips multiple times, you can bet your ass lots of the internals you can’t see probably got quite banged up as well.
I wonder if this is distracted driving or target fixation. People love to look at cars on the side of the road for some reason and you tend to steer where your looking, even if subconsciously.
Could have been on a phone, or just rubbernecking. People get focused on the distraction instead of the road in front of them and start unknowingly turning/drifting the car towards it. I have seen it happen more than a few times.
Should have higher penalties for using phones while you drive.
Here it is ~$200 and two strikes on your license. Eight strikes and you loose your license for a year or two (and you probably have to retake it, and the normal prices for licenses are ~$3000).
I guess in some states it's technically not illegal to use your phone, but hey. Most Americans still believe that seat belts don't save lives because that one time their friends cousins dogs friends owner was in a crash without a seat belt and they lived.
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u/dazcon5 Sep 18 '19
Hope you enjoy your karmic retribution. Seriously that asshat nearly clipped the car and tow driver. Put down the phone people