Old man rant: people wearing headphones while driving

[Captroop]

I use speaker mode

 

So this. I'm not a smart guy by any stretch of the imagination, but I figured this one out the day I started driving. It shocks me that this day in age I still see people driving around with one hand on the wheel with a cell phone obstructing half their peripheral vision.

 

Honestly I think we need to go back to manual transmission. You can't do poo else with your hands but change gears.

[The Saltman]

I wear headphones while driving on road trips. It's usually because the kids are crying and screaming and I need to get away.

This

 

 

Pstall you are old.

[Captroop]

Not if your car does not have hands free built into it.

 

Not true. If you have an AUX jack (cutting edge technology in 2005!), you can plug your phone into it and have the sound go through your car speakers.

[The Saltman]

Not true. If you have an AUX jack (cutting edge technology in 2005!), you can plug your phone into it and have the sound go through your car speakers.

I am sure doing that produces some sort of feedback?

[Captroop]

I am sure doing that produces some sort of feedback?

 

Not at all. The only time I hear feedback at all is when I am charging the phone the same time I have it plugged into the AUX jack. Then every time I rev the engine I hear a whine. Unplug it, and you would think I had bluetooth in my 2008 Solara.

[Plewis]

So this. I'm not a smart guy by any stretch of the imagination, but I figured this one out the day I started driving. It shocks me that this day in age I still see people driving around with one hand on the wheel with a cell phone obstructing half their peripheral vision.

 

Honestly I think we need to go back to manual transmission. You can't do poo else with your hands but change gears.

 

I drive a manual. It's definitely possible. You should see some of the dangerous maneuvers I make on a daily basis.  

[pstall]

This

Pstall you are old.

No argument on old. But at least I don't look or act old.

[Anybodyhome]

I'm old and I simply assume that everyone driving around me is either texting, yapping on a cell (not using Bluetooth), playing video games, getting head, yelling at the kids or has buds in.

 

Once you make that assumption, you'll no longer be surprised about the idiots driving around you.

[Mother Grabber]

What's next banning deaf people from driving?

Also driving with a deaf chick is awesome because you can listen to anything you want

 

Deaf people aren't real.  They're a myth, like unicorns or the clitoris. 

[Kevin Greene]

What's next banning deaf people from driving?

Also driving with a deaf chick is awesome because you can listen to anything you want

 

 

Hmm, I was thinking because you can fart and she doesn't know it til it's too late.

[pstall]

The way panda mentions women in the abstract you'd swear he knows some.

[Dexterity]

What's next banning deaf people from driving?

Also driving with a deaf chick is awesome because you can listen to anything you want

They make funny noises during sex.

[PhillyB]

i've always thought it was dumb driving around town, but i actually do it now driving back and forth to charlotte from greensboro twice a week. it makes the commute a lot easier to handle and makes phone calls a lot easier to sustain, especially when driving a manual (although on the interstate that's not really an issue either.) 

 

the only other time i've done it was in indonesia earlier this year. i was on a motorbike and jammed to queen and audioslave while navigating my way across bali and it was strangely sublime.

[MadHatter]

Not true. If you have an AUX jack (cutting edge technology in 2005!), you can plug your phone into it and have the sound go through your car speakers.

 

Damn....did not realize that.

 

Thanks for the info.