My kid’s just finished the classroom part of driver education and it prompted a discussion of crazy things we’ve seen other drivers do.

The craziest thing I saw, many years ago now, was I came up behind a guy driving a Ford Ranger pickup and could see through his rear window that he was doing tricep extensions with a dumbbell in his right hand. I was more surprised as I passed to see he was shaving with an electric razor in his left hand. I don’t really know how he was steering.

Kiddo said they were told personal grooming was the fourth leading cause of accidents.

  • Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Watch Lord of the Rings on a phone mounted on the steering wheel. I called the police immediately.

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      3 months ago

      As you should. That movie deserves a bigger screen and decent sound setup. Watching it on a phone is criminal.

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      3 months ago

      Shockingly, watching videos while driving is not illegal in many US states (some it’s ambiguous, others there’s simply no law that actually bans it)

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        3 months ago

        Strange. In the Netherlands you get a big fine even for talking on the phone without any screen interaction. Just holding it to your ear is already forbidden.