Stupid drivers, what she didn't know?

[hummer_metal]

I gotta ask, perhaps being a new Hummer owner has shadowed what I see.

Do you get people in little cars that cut you off? I almost plowed this driver today, and all she did was laugh. Like I was worried about hurting my Hummer.
She bolted right in front of me, and had no cares in the world.

I plowed on the brakes, and was mad as hell thinking what a dumb ass. When I looked up at her rear view mirror she was laughing.

I swear I saw her giggle.

Why do people pass me so much only to find out I am going the speed limit or there is no more room?

[Scouts Out]

Three days ago I was turning left at a green light and as I was half way thru it I saw a teen girl, phone shoved in her, blow the red light narrowly missing me. A older man was stopped at the light and I saw him shaking his head. Just as luck had it she was going to the supermarket that I was. As I walked in I saw her and ask if she realized she almost hit me, she said If I did it would have been you fault cause I had a green light. The old man who saw everything came in and said young lady if you hit that gentleman I would pull the phone out of your ear and shove it up your as$. The young lady by now was feeling uncomfy and just wanting to get away and admited she did not even remember driving thru the light and said she never noticed MY BIG BLUE HUMMER. I was feeling bad cause the old man was yapping at her the whole way thru the store about how maybe she was too young to drive, how she definately should not have been driving while talking on the phone. After I checked out I passed her outside crying talking to her mom on the phone about how she almost hit a truck and never saw it cause she was on her phone. Two days later I saw her and her mom at the supermarket. I saw her point me out to her mom and they approached me. Her mom asked if her daughter almost did hit me. As I assured her the story was true she told me her daughter is no longer permitted to use her phone in the car and has to lock it in the trunk while driving. She further went to thank me for bringing it up to her daughter and her and making her daughter realize how dangerous it is to drive and talk. Maybe a small vistory for safe driving.

[Steve - SanJose]

I see stupid driving when driving any/all vehicles, not just the H3. But often the sloppy drivers are talking on a cell phone.


S.

[Lucifer]

Cell phone jammers, tons of fun. They work good for that ******* that is driving 10 under the speed limit in the left lane while talking on the cell phone. http://www.infostream.biz/cellphonejammer.html
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[Dirtdog74H1]

People are a-holes Metal!! deal with that stuff everyday being a Highway Officer here in PA.
had one yesterday, road rage, so a-hole rips around a full size Ram on a no passing street then jams on brakes forcing the truck to rear end it.
moral of the story is there are people like this everywhere. F em, get there tag a call it in. or message me with it, i'll run it and call and give em ****...

[hummer_metal]

I got the cell phone knuckle head issue understood.

In Europe, at least in England I know for a fact has a no cell phone driving law. Third offense and the Bobbys will lock you up over night.

How about other truck drivers? They pull out from behind you, pass you up, even if I am in the left lane doing the speed limit? Like they are trying to prove something. " Hey man, you beat me to the red light, dork "

Dirtdog74H1- Naw it's not worth it. Now I mention that I am moving to Butler PA Wednesday. I am moving my residents and business back home.

[Agriv8r]

i like the follow them and let them know how stupid they are method!!

[Scouts Out]

Dirt dog, there is no road with more idiots on it that the PA TURNPIKE. Bad drivers, cell phones, speeders who are reckless. I drive it at least twice a month from PGH to Harrisburg and it can be a white knuckle ride esp late at night.

Hummer-metal , welcome home, Butler is not more than 25 miles from my home. Not much business in Butler

[H2the3]

...And few other reasons why people act/drive the way they do;

1) late for work, again...
2) late going home to make dinner...
3) In their little world other people drive too slow or don't know how to drive...
5) My car is faster than yours "Terret" Syndrome...
6) Soccer mom in a "Refrigerator on wheels" Van, late taking jr to practice...
7) Getting BJ and other drivers are watching. :o

...And the list goes on...I even saw a guy changing his clothes while driving in the highway WTF! :mad: Some people just don't give a hoot about others when they drive. I Just keep cool, drive defensive and try to stay away from "Hot heads" on the road because you never know what they're going to do.

I think the real reason they cut you off is because they're pissed off they don't have a Hummer:rolleyes:

[Hummer Guy]

Cell phone jammers, tons of fun. They work good for that ******* that is driving 10 under the speed limit in the left lane while talking on the cell phone. http://www.infostream.biz/cellphonejammer.html
http://69.6.206.229/images/image003.jpg
those really work? anyone have one?

[thedieter]

Our illustrious legislature is working on banning driving one handed with a cell phone stuck in their a$$. Get this! In the year 2008! :mad:

Rather than do it now, I think they know by that time people will be in such a habit that they can collect more revenue by giving tickets.

Best regards, Happy Jack

[GLBLWARMR]

I usually bump draft them going into the corners and my problems disappear into a guard rail.:D :D

[Michael1]

Our illustrious legislature is working on banning driving one handed with a cell phone stuck in their a$$. Get this! In the year 2008! :mad:

Rather than do it now, I think they know by that time people will be in such a habit that they can collect more revenue by giving tickets.

Best regards, Happy Jack

One handed cell phone driving is not the problem. Several studies have shown the problem is people are too involved in and distracted with their telephone conversation to drive well. There was no difference in accident avoidance between hands free and non-hand free cell phone users. Basically, all it means is whether you would like to be rear ended by a person with one or two hands on the wheel.

I was almost rear ended last week with some dumb*ss on his hands free cell phone. I saw the ear piece, changed lanes, and opened my window to signal him by. He got the message, as his driving improved dramatically after that.

Of course, we have bunch of stupid legislators in California who complain about the lack of science instruction in the schools, but heaven forbid that these idiots would ever look at a scientific study before making legislative decisions.

You want to fix the problem? Ban cell phone use.

Michael

[thedieter]

You can make a study show anything you want it to. I know from experience that one can't control a car with one hand as well as with two.

One time I had to wait for a woman in a market parking lot while she used one hand to turn the wheel enough to park. Heaven forbid that she put that damn thing down and shut her mouth long enough to park.

The potential distraction from what comes over the phone is another worrisome issue.:eek:

Best regards, Happy Jack

[ShortBus]

Three days ago I was turning left at a green light and as I was half way thru it I saw a teen girl, phone shoved in her, blow the red light narrowly missing me. A older man was stopped at the light and I saw him shaking his head. Just as luck had it she was going to the supermarket that I was. As I walked in I saw her and ask if she realized she almost hit me, she said If I did it would have been you fault cause I had a green light. The old man who saw everything came in and said young lady if you hit that gentleman I would pull the phone out of your ear and shove it up your as$. The young lady by now was feeling uncomfy and just wanting to get away and admited she did not even remember driving thru the light and said she never noticed MY BIG BLUE HUMMER. I was feeling bad cause the old man was yapping at her the whole way thru the store about how maybe she was too young to drive, how she definately should not have been driving while talking on the phone. After I checked out I passed her outside crying talking to her mom on the phone about how she almost hit a truck and never saw it cause she was on her phone. Two days later I saw her and her mom at the supermarket. I saw her point me out to her mom and they approached me. Her mom asked if her daughter almost did hit me. As I assured her the story was true she told me her daughter is no longer permitted to use her phone in the car and has to lock it in the trunk while driving. She further went to thank me for bringing it up to her daughter and her and making her daughter realize how dangerous it is to drive and talk. Maybe a small vistory for safe driving.This is how all parents should react.

[Scouts Out]

How about people eating four course meals while driving. I know we could never get rid of drive thrus but they are another big pain in the ass

[HummerNewbie]

You can make a study show anything you want it to.


Very true and it's funny that those that through out studies to back up their argument never believe the studies from the other side :rolleyes:

I know from experience that one can't control a car with one hand as well as with two.

I don't completely agree with this. For you and your experience maybe so, but that does not mean it is true for everyone at every instance. Really depends on the circumstances. I found years ago that when driving on a closed road coarse that my lap times were faster with one hand versus two and there was no difference in my ability to control the vehicle. That does not mean that it is always the case, but definitely so at that time for me.

[thedieter]

You are talking about a different situation where you have total concentration on the road. That is not the same as the lovelies cruising around Mission Viejo in their giant SUVs with one hand on the cell phone and (hopefully) one hand on the wheel.:eek:

Best regards, Happy Jack

[evldave]

One handed cell phone driving is not the problem. Several studies have shown the problem is people are too involved in and distracted with their telephone conversation to drive well.

Quote the study, who did it, when, what were the conditions, post a link. Otherwise you are just a STUPID FUKING DUMBA$$. Stop quoting studies! Are these studies from your college classes? Seems like you have a study for everything.

I was almost rear ended last week with some dumb*ss on his hands free cell phone. I saw the ear piece, changed lanes, and opened my window to signal him by. He got the message, as his driving improved dramatically after that.

How big was the earpiece? Damn, must have been huge to earpiece to see from your rearview mirror. When I'm driving, I have my earpiece on all the time, even when I'm not on the phone, who says he was actually on the phone? Maybe he was distracted by following the dumbist piece of **** hummer driver on the planet.

Of course, we have bunch of stupid legislators in California who complain about the lack of science instruction in the schools, but heaven forbid that these idiots would ever look at a scientific study before making legislative decisions.

You want to fix the problem? Ban cell phone use.

Might as well ban eating in the car, having small kids in the back seat, talking to friends in the car, drinking w/<.08% acohol, changing radio stations, and anything else that involves taking your hands off the wheel or distracts the driver.

Since your studies are a crock of ****, you might as well try to use some decent logic.

[Scouts Out]

Ummm In Pennsylvania they are preparing to pass a law limiting the number of passangers in a driver's younger than 18 year old car. I bet the PA trooper on here could shed more light but it is (elvdave you have me tense to say this) shown in studies that the more teens in the car the higher the crash rates. We lost two just this week as 6 girls in a Saturn Vue hit a tree so hard the driver and the girl seated in the left rear seat were killed as the left side of the car was ripped off and the girl sitting in the cargo area (YES CARGO AREA) was critically injured.

I am all for IQ test and if you score less than a set score you have to post a sign on you car to warn others you are stupid. Drive thru resturaunts and cell phones will also be banned in these cars. Any one want to start the petition?

[DWPC]

Might as well ban eating in the car, having small kids in the back seat, talking to friends in the car, drinking w/<.08% acohol, changing radio stations, and anything else that involves taking your hands off the wheel or distracts the driver.


Dave, are you maybe in the cell phone business? The problem is undeniable and, because of the huge numbers of phone-addicted drivers, a hundred times worse than drunks, munchers and misbehaving kids. I see phone-caused bad driving virtually every commute. Its getting worse and worse.

It used to be that the guy doing 40 in the fast lane or weaving was a geezer or a drunk. Now, 99% chance its some self-absorbed jerk getting his next sales or work call over the cell phone.

Whats amazing is the denial and the political buy-offs that prevent taking any real steps to curb the problem.

[evldave]

Dave, are you maybe in the cell phone business? The problem is undeniable and, because of the huge numbers of phone-addicted drivers, a hundred times worse than drunks, munchers and misbehaving kids. I see phone-caused bad driving virtually every commute. Its getting worse and worse.

It used to be that the guy doing 40 in the fast lane or weaving was a geezer or a drunk. Now, 99% chance its some self-absorbed jerk getting his next sales or work call over the cell phone.

Whats amazing is the denial and the political buy-offs that prevent taking any real steps to curb the problem.

I agree that there are more dumbazzes out there driving and talking. But at what point do you draw the line? I'm guessing a soccer mom, with two yelling kids in the back seat, trying to feed them McDonalds is more of a safety risk on the road than me talking on my phone. So why outlaw my right to talk on the phone and non soccer mom's?

I'd be happy to make talking on a cell phone like drinking and driving - around here, no matter how little beer you've had, if you are involved in an accident and have been drinking, you are considered at-fault (have a buddy who got in lots of trouble after having a single beer and getting t-boned at a 4-way). Seems like we are legislating behavior instead of just penalizing the offenders.

[hummer_metal]

Scouts out; Hummer-metal , welcome home, Butler is not more than 25 miles from my home. Not much business in Butler

I will be bringing at least four jobs with me when I move my business there. Of coarse I hope to add two positions a year while my business continues to grow.

Man... You have no idea how good it feels to be getting out of this concrete jungle and back into the sticks where I come from. I had wanted to come back home but like you said "jobs". But I knew a few years ago, when I started my business, if I did well I would be moving back to PA.

I live in a large military area, and this area is always in transition. Making good quality friends, only to have new orders to be shipped somewhere else.

After we get settled in, and I have the shop up and running we should plain to get together and do some off roading together. I haven't taken my H3 off road yet, and I look forward to doing it.

[Michael1]

You can make a study show anything you want it to. I know from experience that one can't control a car with one hand as well as with two.

So what you are saying is all studies are worthless.:confused: Could you explain what motivation they would have to show that hand free systems don't work? I guess it's another conspiracy.:rolleyes:

We aren't talking about people trying to set lap times on a road course. We are talking about people who are making no more of an evasive maneuver than putting on the brakes when someone stops in front of them, or turning the steering wheel when the freeway has a bend (yes, I have even seen someone almost hit the divider when the freeway turned while they were on their cell phone). They like a bunch of drunks. I'm not advocating driving with one hand, but I seriously doubt the average driver, with our lax licensing system, could even make an evasive manuever.

Drunk or on Cell Phone? (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/NEWS07/606300453/1009)

Cell Phone Users Drive Blind (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030129080944.htm)

I think I've seen enough to warrant making cell phone use illegal while driving.

Michael

"Shut up and drive"

[thedieter]

You have my vote Michael.

[H3.007]

I recently t-boned a b*tch in the local Wal-mart parking lot. She was blowing across parking spots perpendicular to established lanes of traffic. I had some damage to my only month old H3 but her car required well over $2500 in repairs. Come to find out, the police would not site her because it is private property. So I guess this means that you can get away with any crime in a WalMart parking lot? I think perhaps I'll reinforce my front end with tube steel and just start ramming people that do stupid driving stunts like what she did. Perhaps then the police and county commissioners will pursue special ordinances that deal with stupid drivers "not on the street".

I can't wait to see what they do when someone is killed - perhaps a five year old trying to cross the street to Petco when someone runs over him backwards at 80 MPH in her little Chevy hatchback because she was in a hurry to get some.... "****"

Johnstown, Pa.

[HummerNewbie]

I see plenty of people that are bad drivers when they are on the cell phone but I also see plenty of people that are on their phone and drive better than most everyone around them. If we take away the cell phones does that all of the sudden make all the bad drivers good ones? No, obviously it does not. I agree, there are people that should not be allow to use a phone while in the car but most of these people are also the ones that are bad drivers even if you take away the phone, radio and any other possible distraction in the car. It case you don't recall, there were plenty of idiots on the road not paying attention long before cell phones were even around.

[Lucifer]

those really work? anyone have one?

I have one and love it. Every once in a while I find a phone that has to good of a connection to jam it, but it will jam most phones. Works great in the theater. Funny seeing the look on the face of the ******* in the fast lane when his phone goes dead.

[usetosellhummer]

Cell phones do not keep people in touch, they keep them at a distance so they don't have to really talk to them. I hate them. Driving with one is as bad as driving drunk in my book, wait hold on, I got a call.........
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Ok where was I, yea, cell phones are evil, and cause brain tumors.
In Santa Fe you get a ticket if driving with one.

[HummerNewbie]

Cell phones do not keep people in touch, they keep them at a distance so they don't have to really talk to them. I hate them. Driving with one is as bad as driving drunk in my book, wait hold on, I got a call.........

LMAO :D

How about posting on a forum while driving :p

[dеiтайожни]

I hate people who drive one-handed while talking on cellphones. I always lose a mario while I'm playing on the xbox because those jerks always do something to make it hard to keep driving with my knees and I gotta drop the controller. :mad:

[HummerNewbie]

I hate people who drive one-handed while talking on cellphones. I always lose a mario while I'm playing on the xbox because those jerks always do something to make it hard to keep driving with my knees and I gotta drop the controller. :mad:

So that's why you turned down that trail :eek: :D ;)

[dеiтайожни]

So that's why you turned down that trail :eek: :D ;)

I was playing the Hummer Badlands game at the time, I saw a nice trail, but I must have mixed up what one was on the monitor and what one was the windshield.

[HummerNewbie]

I was playing the Hummer Badlands game at the time, I saw a nice trail, but I must have mixed up what one was on the monitor and what one was the windshield.

I told you installing a 42" plasma on top of the dash wasn't a good idea ;)