Re: State Farm files patent for system to suppress calls and text while driving

On 6/9/2024 3:52 PM, Java Jive wrote:

    Let me see... How do I manage to look at a map? Oh, yeah,
I pull over. :)

 Trying to be a smart arse just makes you look a jerk.  There are many, many driving situations where you can't just pull over to the side of the road.
 

   Just a bit of humor. Prior to a few years ago, everyone
used maps. It worked. I still use maps. If I can't pull over then
I wait until I can. Not rocket science. Believing that a cellphone
is safer is just fooling yourself.
   I've been in a car where people were using driving directions
exactly twice. One was Google. I think the other was a Mapquest
printout. Google told us to take a crazy route that would have
wasted an hour. It appeared sensible to a visitor, but as a local
I knew it would have been a disastrous choice.
    Mapquest had the right route, but had the direction wrong.
It told us to take route x north when it should have been south.
Both trips would have been easy to plan via map before leaving
the house. I don't mind if people can't read maps and want to use
Google or Mapquest, but if you really need to look at your cellphone,
you should pull over. If you follow Google and then your passenger
squeals that the directions are wrong, don't panic. Don't make any
sudden move or veer into another lane. Don't slam on the brakes.
Keep driving until you have a chance to pull over safely and consult
a map. :)