Distracted Drivers
 

We've all seen hundreds/thousands of people on cell phones but today I saw a first. I was close to Rutgers and as a car was making a left from having been stoped at a traffic light, I noticed that the driver had a bunch of papers on the steering wheel and an uncapped yellow hi lighter in her hand.

Any one else have a candidate for the distracted driver hall of fame ?

That is why I run strong blinkly lights up front in the daytime, they get attention. IMO, you can be talking on the phone and looking the other way, when those powerful lights on blinky are anywhere in your peripheral line of sight, you are going to noticed them. IMO, most drivers even if they are not distracted don't see you anyway. In parking lots, cars even give me my rightofway there too.

Just my opinion and what I do.. ;)

I was once waiting at an intersection and saw a driver removing a pullover sweatshirt while speeding down the street. It still boggles my mind.

The guy doing the crossword comes to mind.

It's going to get worse before there's a hope of it getting better. I was at the auto show and nearly every new car now as a touch video screen control panel in the the dash. Distraction by design!

Eating, shaving (electric shaver), fooling with the dash, arguing with passengers, texting, surfing the web and recently talking on a cell phone using a hands free device and looking BELOW the steering wheel. I was stopped on a trail at an intersection and saw some dude coming up slow in a convertable, I didn't see and acknowledgment of my presence so I decided to wait on him, he pulled up and half way through the intersection talking loudly on a hands free cell phone device in the car, I could hear BOTH sides of the conversation. He pulled WAY past the white stop strip and was literally half way across the intersection, stopped and stayed there continuing to talk on the phone. Each time he talked he looked up, each time he listened he looked down, and the last time he listened he sailed halfway through the intersection. I elected to not say anything, waiting to make sure he wasn't going to back up on my a scooted across behind him. I heard some honking and yelling as I rode on, never looked back to see what happened.

I drive for the county transit system and about a week ago was behind the wheel of a 40ft Gillig (which affords an excellent view from on high into cars around you) waiting at a busy 4 way lighted intersection.
At all four corners there were drivers texting away like crazy and several were oblivious when their lights turned green and then abruptly floored it when they finally snapped to their senses.

Be careful out there folks.