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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 5:35 pm
(June 22, 2017 at 5:32 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I will straight up admit I have a very short attention span and I go into auto pilot. Sometimes I will drive legally for a length of time and not remember how I got there. I freak out cause I'm like how did I get to be stopped at a stop sign? At least my auto pilot is in safe mode I reckon. I figure if I'm messing with my phone I'm making a conscious effort to pay attention to the road and things around me. I know they say the answer to auto pilot is taking different routes but I'm telling you there is literally only two ways to get into the city I work in and the second way takes hours because I have to go THROUGH Austin down south and then back up again.
No offense intended, I bet the guy who just about ran me over in a crosswalk a short while ago rationalizes his dangerous behavior in much the same way.
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 5:38 pm
The difference is I don't run stop lights. I once did and I felt so bad about it I almost cried. To be fair I sat at the light for ten minutes and it didn't change. It was nearly midnight and no one was around.
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 5:42 pm
(June 22, 2017 at 5:32 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I will straight up admit I have a very short attention span and I go into auto pilot. Sometimes I will drive legally for a length of time and not remember how I got there. I freak out cause I'm like how did I get to be stopped at a stop sign? At least my auto pilot is in safe mode I reckon. I figure if I'm messing with my phone I'm making a conscious effort to pay attention to the road and things around me. I know they say the answer to auto pilot is taking different routes but I'm telling you there is literally only two ways to get into the city I work in and the second way takes hours because I have to go THROUGH Austin down south and then back up again.
No lynching but how about a little jewish mother guilt, now you need to also consider your passenger.
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 5:56 pm
(June 22, 2017 at 5:38 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: The difference is I don't run stop lights. I once did and I felt so bad about it I almost cried. To be fair I sat at the light for ten minutes and it didn't change. It was nearly midnight and no one was around.
Don't be so hard on yourself for this one. If there is no one else around and you can proceed safely, you have my permission.  I used to do it regularly at one light right off the freeway, going to work, at o'dark hundred. That sucker would be red for 15 minutes. I look around- no cars- I'm gone. I stopped first (always) and then went probably 50+ times at that light. I'll post this emoji before I get the hate. 
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 6:34 pm
(June 22, 2017 at 5:32 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I will straight up admit I have a very short attention span and I go into auto pilot. Sometimes I will drive legally for a length of time and not remember how I got there. I freak out cause I'm like how did I get to be stopped at a stop sign? At least my auto pilot is in safe mode I reckon. I figure if I'm messing with my phone I'm making a conscious effort to pay attention to the road and things around me. I know they say the answer to auto pilot is taking different routes but I'm telling you there is literally only two ways to get into the city I work in and the second way takes hours because I have to go THROUGH Austin down south and then back up again.
If you're texting and driving 620, you're begging for an accident, you know that.
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 6:37 pm
(June 22, 2017 at 6:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (June 22, 2017 at 5:32 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I will straight up admit I have a very short attention span and I go into auto pilot. Sometimes I will drive legally for a length of time and not remember how I got there. I freak out cause I'm like how did I get to be stopped at a stop sign? At least my auto pilot is in safe mode I reckon. I figure if I'm messing with my phone I'm making a conscious effort to pay attention to the road and things around me. I know they say the answer to auto pilot is taking different routes but I'm telling you there is literally only two ways to get into the city I work in and the second way takes hours because I have to go THROUGH Austin down south and then back up again.
If you're texting and driving 620, you're begging for an accident, you know that.
620??
Hell, fastest I've ever driven was 240 and a bit...
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 6:51 pm
(June 22, 2017 at 6:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (June 22, 2017 at 5:32 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I will straight up admit I have a very short attention span and I go into auto pilot. Sometimes I will drive legally for a length of time and not remember how I got there. I freak out cause I'm like how did I get to be stopped at a stop sign? At least my auto pilot is in safe mode I reckon. I figure if I'm messing with my phone I'm making a conscious effort to pay attention to the road and things around me. I know they say the answer to auto pilot is taking different routes but I'm telling you there is literally only two ways to get into the city I work in and the second way takes hours because I have to go THROUGH Austin down south and then back up again.
If you're texting and driving 620, you're begging for an accident, you know that.
I'm not really on 620 for long. I go back behind Bullock Hollow and come out Comanche trail (which is way too curvy to text on) By the time I'm on 620 I'm in too much high speed traffic to text. My commute to and from work is primarily text at red lights since I hit enough of them. I'm text more when going to Copperas Cove.
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 7:18 pm
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I can't tell you how many times I'm on 71 going to work or the HEB and see folks texting at 70mph. Scares the shit outta me.
(June 22, 2017 at 6:37 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (June 22, 2017 at 6:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If you're texting and driving 620, you're begging for an accident, you know that.
620??
Hell, fastest I've ever driven was 240 and a bit...
And that was on metric ... pfft.
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 22, 2017 at 11:34 pm
(June 22, 2017 at 7:18 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I can't tell you how many times I'm on 71 going to work or the HEB and see folks texting at 70mph. Scares the shit outta me.
(June 22, 2017 at 6:37 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: 620??
Hell, fastest I've ever driven was 240 and a bit...
And that was on metric ... pfft.
Yes, I want to see your hair flowing back/whipping into your eyes when you are cranking 240 kPH.  Fastest I've ever driven is 140 MPH. One of the vehicles that I drove that fast, the engine suffered a mighty failure. 
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RE: Texting and Driving
June 23, 2017 at 3:00 pm
Fastest I've ever driven was 115 mph in my old 79 280. The old lady was shaking something fierce -- the front MacPhersons were going soft and it felt like I was going to lift off soon. I still had about 2000 rpm to redline in fifth, one downshift and I could have hit 130 without too much of an issue other than controllability.
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