[Ducati] NDC: Don't pass at the Gap

[Mikiel Kingsley]

On 8/1/06, Bruce Bradsby <bbradsby at bdbarchitects.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> This AM, some idiot yakking on a cellphone glued to her ear blurted
> out from her jambed up lane into the 50mph flow HOV lane  - and then
> stopped while half-blocking my path, and I'm thinking maybe she still
> hadn't SEEN me, so maybe she's going to pull across my lane and over
> to the median to stop. Hard to plan an escape around. Anyway, same
> story, different day, so I'l spare ya the details. Sufice it to say
> that I was adrenalized enough that it was all I could do to not kick
> her mirror off.  Geez, what's a hands free kit cost, $10?!  In this
> great country, you're free to do anything you want until a $5million
> study over ten years finds, shock & horror, that an activity is
> lethal to others as everyone already knew. oh, and then the industry
> lobbyists beat back any attempt to regulate said activity. ok, i feel
> better now! Thanks for listening  :)



So your contention is that if she had a hands-free kit she wouldn't have
been stupid enough to pull out in front you?  I'll bet you a beer that a
hands-free kit does nothing to improve her driving.  There are some $5
million studies which show that talking with a passenger is every bit as
distracting as yakking on the phone.  Anyway, why would the cell-phone
lobbyists want to stop the gov from mandating hands-free cell-phones while
driving when it's one more thing the phone company can charge you $10 for?
Especially since, so long as you HAVE to but it, the price is going to go up
from $10 to $25 on about $2 of equipment.

-- 
-Mikiel
'96 900SS/SP "Buttercup"