Do you look at your phone while walking

incentsitive · 11-10-2018 09:11AM

D3V!L wrote: »

Walking slouched with your head hanging looking at your phone will put extreme pressure on your neck. Work away and keep doing it if thats what you're doing.

My wife is counting on all these damaged necks for our retirement plan

Ask any physio about this, they have people (particularly young people) arriving in with back and neck problems all the time now.

Vita nova · 11-10-2018 09:23AM

No, knowing my luck, I'd get it snatched, crash into someone or fall down a manhole.

seamus · 11-10-2018 09:28AM

Yeah, I frequently would.

Bumping into people is an awareness issue, not really to do with phones. Without the phones, these would be the same people who walk 3 abreast slowly, stop in the middle of a busy path to look in a shop window, or step off a kerb with their back to traffic.

bloodless_coup · 11-10-2018 10:09AM

There seems to be a huge increase in people doing video calls while walking.

I assume that's what they are doing anyway, they are holding the phone up in front of thier face.

Your Face · 11-10-2018 10:24AM

I only look at my phone while driving, it's much safer.

B-D-P-- · 11-10-2018 10:27AM

TheQuietFella · 11-10-2018 10:30AM

I saw a woman walk out in front of a bus in Dublin a few years ago while looking at her phone. Luckily for her the driver was driving slowly and turning left and I can only assume that he saw her and what she was doing!

setanta1000 · 11-10-2018 10:34AM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Joggers who imagine they have some right of way on the pavement are annoying though. I do step out of their way if I see them coming as I don’t want to break their run, but I cannot understand people who appear to want people to bump into them. What’s that about?

I agree 100% and my rule usually is if I am moving faster than you it is my responsibility to get out of your way....BUT.......if the same idiot is repeatedly walking in the middle of the footpath and not looking at anything and without any consideration a little shoulder brush might wake him up

Arrival · 11-10-2018 10:38AM

Yes, but I've great spacial awareness and am always conscious of my peripheral vision because I always played sports growing up which I think really helps. Even when it comes to crossing the road between traffic I can judge the timing really well.

A lot of people have no awareness of their surroundings though, even without using phones these are the type of people who can't walk in a straight line on a footpath and take the whole place up making it hard for you to pass and cause you to do that awkward dance when walking past each other when you're talking towards each other. These people have no business doing anything other than concentrating fully on not being dumbasses.

orourkeda1977 · 11-10-2018 10:39AM

Absolutely not.

Anyone who does is an idiot.

If I need to look at my phone, I'll stop and step out of the way. People who walk with their face in a phone are just ignorant

Boom_Bap · 11-10-2018 10:42AM

I have vowed not to get out of their way anymore.
But yesterday, while one was walking towards me, a smile appeared on my face and I started to think that "this one is going into that bush".

Then I started to think that if she looked up to sidestep at the last moment, she would see this grinning buffoon approaching her ready to knock her into a bush, what would that look like.

She didn't look up, I sidestepped. I let out an audible 'tut' though.

D3V!L · 11-10-2018 11:13AM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I have vowed not to get out of their way anymore.
But yesterday, while one was walking towards me, a smile appeared on my face and I started to think that "this one is going into that bush".

Then I started to think that if she looked up to sidestep at the last moment, she would see this grinning buffoon approaching her ready to knock her into a bush, what would that look like.

She didn't look up, I sidestepped. I let out an audible 'tut' though.

I refuse to get out of anyone's way that does this and I also refuse to engage with people that are looking at their phones and trying to take part in a conversation.

VampiricPadraig · 11-10-2018 11:46AM

Yeah I do, but I always have a quick glance ahead to see who/what is coming.

Tchaikovsky · 11-10-2018 12:29PM

gormdubhgorm · 13-06-2019 10:09AM

Has it become socailly acceptable for people to walk across roads while looking at thier phones?

I have noticed that it seems like the rule rather than the exception these days.
It completely puts the onus on the driver to notice that the pedestrian is in thier own little world.
They might as well be walking across the road with thier eyes closed.
A giveaway is not only the head down, but first indications are a slower walk than normal.

It is really odd the more I think about it.
Do people read physical books/newspapers when crossing the road/walking around no.
They are starting to put thier head up less and less.
Even when walking outside.
How many times does the person who is walking and looking where they are going have to take evasive action as a phone zombie is walking towards them?
It is like a real life horror film.

22-06-2019 09:16AM

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Has it become socailly acceptable for people to walk across roads while looking at thier phones?

I have noticed that it seems like the rule rather than the exception these days.
It completely puts the onus on the driver to notice that the pedestrian is in thier own little world.

The onus has ALWAYS been on the driver to notice the pedestrian. The driver is the one in control of the lethal weapon.

Sonny noggs · 22-06-2019 09:19AM

Happy to make way for joggers, I don’t give an inch to cyclists in the footpath (daily occurrence) and I don’t make way for pedestrians not paying attention to where they are going.

Mister Vain · 22-06-2019 09:20AM

Only when I'm lost.

branie2 · 22-06-2019 09:27AM

Nope, it's extremely stupid and dangerous

22-06-2019 10:18AM

i try not to. good way to get it robbed

gormdubhgorm · 22-06-2019 01:10PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

The onus has ALWAYS been on the driver to notice the pedestrian. The driver is the one in control of the lethal weapon.

Rubbish it is not one sided. So there is absolutely no personal responsibility on a pedestrian blindly walking across the road without looking?
Doing so with complete disregard for thier personal safety in a face of approaching 'lethal weapons'?

I remember the days when at the very least people used to look both ways when crossing the road.

You must have noticed it when you are in a car/bus etc - that it is becoming the exception rather than the rule for a pedestrian to look both ways when crossing the road.
Why is this?
Primarily because of mobile phones.

The safe cross code adverts were obviously completely lost on you?

Now we have this....

Padded lampposts in London...

Common sense does not seem to be a common commodity anymore.
(fella looking at his phone @ 0:29)

Mobile phones have made pedestrians into zombies:

Church on Tuesday · 22-06-2019 01:37PM

maccored wrote: »

no, but I was wondering why so many do. outside of looking up google maps for directions, I dont get it

Because these are vapid times we live in.

My phone is off when I'm walking, I'm usually on my way to something which is of more interest or importance.

honeybear · 22-06-2019 01:46PM

No

whiskeyman · 22-06-2019 01:49PM

I'm walking as I type this!
I've never been in an accident and I doubt I ev

AllForIt · 22-06-2019 01:54PM

Sonny noggs wrote: »

Happy to make way for joggers, I don’t give an inch to cyclists in the footpath (daily occurrence) and I don’t make way for pedestrians not paying attention to where they are going.

My veiw on this is that there is an unspoken common sense set of rules which guide who's place it is to move out of the way and these rules should be adhered to whether the oncoming person is walking/jogging/biking or looking at a fone.

For example, if a group of say 3 ppl are walking side by side oncoming and you are walking on the curb side, it is not for you to either step onto the road or alternatively to walk around the other side of the 3 ppl staying on the pavement. In that instance it's not my place to move - it's theirs.

For me the number of pedestrians who don't adhere to these common sense rules are much more irritating than any occasional jogger or biker. I have also found that when jogging myself some c*nts will deliberately not move when it's their place to move. They get the elbow treatment when that happens.

22-06-2019 01:54PM

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Rubbish it is not one sided.

It kinda is.

When you're responsible for a tonne or two of metal travelling at 20-120 kmph in an area that you know will be used by pedestrians and cyclists, then you need to not kill people. You need to drive, as required by law, in a manner that allows you stop within the distance you can see to be clear. You need to expect the unexpected.

You did see the stats behind that Luas video, right?

In the whole of 2018, there were 25 incidents were the Luas made contact with vehicles, nine incidents involving pedestrians and one involving a cyclist.

22-06-2019 02:06PM

AllForIt wrote: »

I have also found that when jogging myself some c*nts will deliberately not move when it's their place to move. They get the elbow treatment when that happens.

Is this for real? You elbow people out of your way when you're jogging?

If so, I know who the c*nt is here.

AllForIt · 22-06-2019 03:10PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Is this for real? You elbow people out of your way when you're jogging?

If so, I know who the c*nt is here.

Let me be clear. Actually I'm recount a real life past experience. I'm running on the curb side with 3 women oncoming walking abreast. To pass them I either have to hop onto the road temporarily or go around the other side of them. In that instance it is their place to give way and not mine. In such a scenario yes they will get the elbow treatment when they are the ones being pigheaded.

Oh and in future if your going to quote me don't quote me out of context for effect. It was pretty clear what I meant in my post. I don't go around elbowing ppl for the fun it unlike those who do behave pigheadedly for the fun of it.

harry Bailey esq · 22-06-2019 03:21PM

incentsitive wrote: »

Do you look at your phone while walking around town?

Nah mang, that's a one way ticket to kiss a lampost.

gormdubhgorm · 22-06-2019 04:44PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

It kinda is.

When you're responsible for a tonne or two of metal travelling at 20-120 kmph in an area that you know will be used by pedestrians and cyclists, then you need to not kill people. You need to drive, as required by law, in a manner that allows you stop within the distance you can see to be clear. You need to expect the unexpected.

It is either is or it is not.
Is an individual not responsible to be aware of a tonne or two of metal travelling at 20-120 kmph? And is it not incumbent upon an individual not blindly walk across the road?

You are basically advocating that all individuals could feasibly be permitted to walk across the road with thier eyes closed from any point of a road, in any road conditions- then the complete responsibility is on the motorist.

You should try it sometime.

Please!

Do you look at your phone while walking

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