how stupid can you get.

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I was just wondering if there was some kind of technology that can automatically switch a phone off when the user is driving. I Googled it and apparently there are apps that do that. If this is possible phone manufacturers should be required by law to fit their phones with this app and make it impossible to turn it off.

Super idea.

I witnessed idiocy like this one day driving home from college when the car in front of me started to swerve coming up to a bend. I slowed down and put some distance between my car and his and just then I saw the idiots arm come out the window of his car while holding his phone. The moron was either taking extreme selfies or a picture of the sunset (I'm not sure which was worse).

At this point a bus came around the bend and this moron had crossed partially into the path of the bus all the while presumably snapping pics. I beeped the horn to get his attention and he still didn't stop with the pics so I lay on the horn and the cretin righted himself just in time not to hit the bus. Maybe people like him will see what happened to this woman and realise they're being idiots and there are extreme consequences to their actions.

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I was just wondering if there was some kind of technology that can automatically switch a phone off when the user is driving. I Googled it and apparently there are apps that do that. If this is possible phone manufacturers should be required by law to fit their phones with this app and make it impossible to turn it off.

Thats just daft. Loads of people and occupations require a mobile phone. I use my phone in the car all the time. I have bluetooth.

But taking selfies/texting etc on a mobile is criminal. Literally. This persons widely publicised demise may persuade other morons to leave the phones in the glovebox until their trip is over.

lukesmom wrote: »

Yeah it wasn't a clever thing to do but for fks sake she lost her life in the process! No need for finger pointing and all that. A woman is dead, she is somebody's daughter, somebody's sister have some respect.

It would be interesting to hear what your opinion might be if it was a relative or friend of yours who she ended up taking with her either as a passenger or the in the oncoming vehicle. It is only sheer good fortune that someone else wasn't killed. Unfortunately she lost her life and fortunately nobody else did. Respect ? Respect other road users is the lesson that can be learned here I think no more and no less.

God I feel for her and her family. A silly mistake, but we are all human but she paid a huge price-very sad

I think there are some positives from this, at least the way it happened society is that little bit safer without this person in it.

Natural selection from my understanding, (and I am open to correction) refers to 3 things:

1) Variation - Some people have black hair, some people have red hair. (Must be a genetic basis) In this case some people have a need for constant attention and validation from others, some people don't. You could argue this behavior is genetic on some level.

2) Differential reproduction - The world can't support unlimited population growth, there are limited resources - land, food, shelter, etc. If we all reproduced to maximum potential, we could potentially have 80-100 children each. Anyway in relation to this story, people who inherited that "insecurity" gene will die more often, meaning the people without the gene will reproduce more.

3) Heredity - This means (and again this all depends on there being a genetic basis to her stupid behavior), that people with a "good" gene, where they aren't insecure people and don't require constant attention, will pass that gene onto their children.

The net result is the "bad" gene eventually dies out in the population.

Turtwig wrote: »

Even if she took my own relatives and survived herself. I'd still be empathetic towards her. She's been punished for a mistake in the cruelest way possible. Unless she was some cold blood evil psycho who preplanned the suffering of others, I'd always have sympathy. Especially when mistakes happen due to naivety or carelessness. If she just avoided hitting them I'd be annoyed. I'd be even more annoyed if she continued to repeat the habit after a close call. But nobody deserves to die or accidentally kill or maim another person. It's a horrid experience. One which anger never helps either party recover from.


/That's how I'd like to react anyway. How I react may be totally different. Such is being human.

You know what... That's how even I would like to react. But yes we are all human and how one would like to approach a situation as supposed to how we would react as human being to a tragedy like that is different. I think it's fanciful and nieve all the same to suggest that you wouldn't feel an overwhelming sence of prolonged anger at someone who would have acted would such calculated reckless abandon that would take the life of a loved one.

AlwaysAnyTime wrote: »

[citation needed]

Like I said I am open to correction, I enjoy learning about this kinda stuff. But I would find it difficult to believe that all behavior is 0% down to genetics. Which is what you are saying.

I'm not going digging up articles at 5 past 12 in the morning for some discussion, whether people take selfies or not has no genetic basis. Behaviour is all learned.

Tragic but hell, that was a stupid thing to do.