Texting while driving, this has to stop

Colin62 said:
Could be.

I suppose to be 100% sure we'd need to take a few more pics at different rotation speeds and shutter speeds and compare the results.
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I have some pics of my car down the main straight at kyalami, but no exif data :( Will have to check at home.

Here's one of another car, 1/320th shutter (so 3-4 times as long) and probably well over 100km/h

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whats the issue with checking an email while standing at a red robot. car is stationary surrounded by other stationary cars. if you keep an eye on the robot whats the big deal?
 
akescpt said:
whats the issue with checking an email while standing at a red robot. car is stationary surrounded by other stationary cars. if you keep an eye on the robot whats the big deal?
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It's against the law.
 
akescpt said:
whats the issue with checking an email while standing at a red robot. car is stationary surrounded by other stationary cars. if you keep an eye on the robot whats the big deal?
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No issue at all. But you must use it wisely like me on my taxi to Venda.
 
akescpt said:
whats the issue with checking an email while standing at a red robot. car is stationary surrounded by other stationary cars. if you keep an eye on the robot whats the big deal?
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You're still in control of the vehicle on a public road. Yes, it's safe - I mean what do people without BBs do at red robots? Pick their noses? But technically it's still against the law.

One of the biggest legacies of the Apartheid government is that South Africans don't take the law at face value - we question whether it is valid and moral and make our own decisions as to whether we will choose to obey any particular law based on our own perceptions and circumstances.

What the hell, it makes life interesting.
 
Sinbad said:
Erm. So anarchy is your preferred way of living? Laws are there to be obeyed at your convenience?

no wonder this country is ****ed.
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Not only do I hate it when sentences begin with Erm or Uhm or Err, I also find it laughable that sometimes (not all the time, mind you), crime = crime. Yeah right, checking messages at a red traffic light = driving 100 in a 60 zone against oncoming traffic and jumping a stop street.
 
Slootvreter said:
Not only do I hate it when sentences begin with Erm or Uhm or Err, I also find it laughable that sometimes (not all the time, mind you), crime = crime. Yeah right, checking messages at a red traffic light = driving 100 in a 60 zone against oncoming traffic and jumping a stop street.
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To be frank, I don't care whether you hate how I start my sentences... Talk about deflection. You'll also note the full stop - so "erm" was actually not the start of the "So Anarchy" question. But anyway... so where do you draw the line? At what point is a crime actually something bad, and at what point is it just something that annoys law abiding citizens?
 
Sinbad said:
To be frank, I don't care whether you hate how I start my sentences... Talk about deflection. But anyway... so where do you draw the line? At what point is a crime actually something bad, and at what point is it just something that annoys law abiding citizens?
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It's not a deflection, that much is clear. I did elaborate my point ;)

And anarchy my way of living because I check messages at a red traffic light? Are you for real? :wtf:
 
Slootvreter said:
It's not a deflection, that much is clear. I did elaborate my point ;)

And anarchy my way of living because I check messages at a red traffic light? Are you for real? :wtf:
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Answer my question please.
 
Sinbad said:
Answer my question please.
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Oh, my apologies. I was actually amazed by your statement about anarchy, but where do we draw the line? I don't know, do you? If I can see that I am endangering someone else or myself doing something (like using a cellphone), I won't do it. Simple.
 
Slootvreter said:
Not only do I hate it when sentences begin with Erm or Uhm or Err, I also find it laughable that sometimes (not all the time, mind you), crime = crime. Yeah right, checking messages at a red traffic light = driving 100 in a 60 zone against oncoming traffic and jumping a stop street.
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http://www.arrivealive.co.za/pages.aspx?i=2894

Distracted driving is distracted driving. If you're on your phone at a red light, and go on green, you are pretty much unaware of any changes to the road environment that occured during your facenewstwatter session.
 
Slootvreter said:
Oh, my apologies. I was actually amazed by your statement about anarchy, but where do we draw the line? I don't know, do you? If I can see that I am endangering someone else or myself doing something (like using a cellphone), I won't do it. Simple.
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So your judgement is the ultimate arbitration of whether a law is correct or incorrect? Should be ignored or enforced?
 
wikk3d88 said:
http://www.arrivealive.co.za/pages.aspx?i=2894

Distracted driving is distracted driving. If you're on your phone at a red light, and go on green, you are pretty much unaware of any changes to the road environment that occured during your facenewstwatter session.
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That's why I don't text anything else than Yes, or OK. And it really is not difficult to actually pay attention to what is happening in the traffic, with traffic lights, etc etc.
 
Sinbad said:
So your judgement is the ultimate arbitration of whether a law is correct or incorrect? Should be ignored or enforced?
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No, if I get caught, so be it. Tell me, how do you feel about software piracy? (yeah, the classical comparison of different types of crime).
 
Slootvreter said:
No, if I get caught, so be it. Tell me, how do you feel about software piracy? (yeah, the classical comparison of different types of crime).
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SO for you enforcement is the ONLY thing that makes you stick to the law, provided you're not endangering someone directly?

Piracy? Bad. Do I do it? Not software, no. TV Series, yes. I also have a DSTV subscription, so I am in fact paying for most of them anyway. I just prefer to watch on my own time and at decent quality.
 
Slootvreter said:
No, if I get caught, so be it. Tell me, how do you feel about software piracy? (yeah, the classical comparison of different types of crime).
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Software piracy doesn't have you behind the wheel of a one and quarter ton vehicle able to inflict massive death and destruction due to a moments distraction
 
Sinbad said:
SO for you enforcement is the ONLY thing that makes you stick to the law, provided you're not endangering someone directly?
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I really love how you simplify things. I could probably break into my neighbour's garage and steal his lawnmower without ever being caught. I could easily spraypaint nasty graffiti on someone's house or car and not get caught. I could walk up to a hobo and punch him in the face and nothing will happen because he will not know who I am and where I came from. All of that against the law, but I don't EVER do that. But if my phone vibrates, and there's no police car around, and traffic is not moving or about to move any moment, I WILL check what the message says.

Tell me, did you ever download an episode or series or movie NEVER shown on DSTV? How do you feel about people that download a pirated copy of Photoshop or MS Office? Anarchy?
 
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