http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/ Engadget Comments for US government launches Distraction.gov, wants to scare you straight (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
Haha, it would have been better if Obama was up there saying "visit distraction.gov", not some old over weight white haired politician. They did a horrible job trying to appeal to their target audience with said quote.]]>Jan 1st 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 2nd 2010 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Everytime Obama talks, my taxes go up. ]]>Jan 2nd 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
Its the next generation of the S.E. Purity... only $2,000]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
It's because that was the kind of phones available when the US Govt. should have been doing something about people using mobiles while driving, they've just taken that long.]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
Plus everybody uses their phone for navigation now it seems, meaning you need a second phone for calling.

]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/So does your "first" post...]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
Listening to music or talk radio rarely causes most people to lose focus but once the driver is participating we get in trouble.
]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/I am Highest Ranked after all.]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
this is how its done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnHvgzXOwNU]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
Did she manage to send it??!!]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/You name it. ]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/us yanks don't like to be grossed out while eating!]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/An ad like this would be deemed too offensive in the US mostly because Americans are super concerned about sheltering their precious little children from reality. It's no wonder that when those kids grow up and have to face reality they are ill equipped to do so.]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
FULL VERSION!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDOmwjgKBcI]]>Jan 1st 2010 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
LOL, I can in fact confirm you should not text and drive in Wales..]]>Jan 1st 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
that my friend, DOES NOTHING, and there are studies that prove it. the danger isn't in holding the phone, it is in talking on it. ]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 2nd 2010 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
Why don't they include:

eating
drink
changing the radio station
talking to a passenger
hand jobs
GF's head/hand in lap
Looking at the time (you're late)
listening for that traffic report
looking at the rear view mirror
looking at the side view mirror
trying to understand stupid gov't signs for exiting (was it North or West?)


Driving is a focused activity (unless it's autonomous driving).

Accidents are called accidents for a reason. You can't prevent an accident by the nature of its definition.

This is just public announcement that the gov't wants to control you.

Just give us:
better driving schools (like Germany)
better roads (like Japan)
better cars (like the EU)
better options for public transportation (like the rest of the world).]]>Jan 2nd 2010 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
one word......twat!]]>Jan 1st 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Car being driven on the left hand side?
Vodafone UK on the Nokia 6310?

Where in the UK is Detroit?]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Spelling correction fail. I made no sense there!]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
To do it somewhat safely took about 15 minutes, though, so I don't think I'll miss the legality of it.]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
LOL

But seriously there are not enough strong programs against hazardous activity. The best tobacco use program was the "truth" one(though i admit that it was pretty good, the tons of crawling baby dolls with secondhand smoke fatality statistics always freaked people out).]]>Jan 2nd 2010 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
eat it b$tches]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
This ad is pathetic. Show the people get in a crash. Show them hurling through their windshields, breaking their skulls on their steering wheels, snapping their necks from whiplash etc.

The best would be to just use real footage. I remember for my driver's ed class they showed a video from a taxi's security camera of the driver being hurled into the back of his car after getting into a high-speed crash without wearing a seatbelt.]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Jan 1st 2010 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/For example: Seatbelt's, no need to say more.

If talk and texting while driving is so much of a freaking pain, pass a law and start throwing the book and fining people. If your not gonna do that, move on and focus your brainless power on something else. ]]>Jan 1st 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/
This campaign will be effective though. If you ever expect 100% compliance, you'll be disappointed 100% of the time. If this campaign improves compliance from 30% to 40%, then it was effective.

I know I stopped texting and using the handset in California when it became illegal to do so. I'm sure many others did as well. If a million people stopped, then surely there were less incidents that were caused by texting or calls.]]>Jan 1st 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/01/us-government-launches-distraction-gov-wants-to-scare-you-strai/Yes I agree.
I was using hands free headsets when they started being sold. Texting will driving, I did a few times; but it was at a red light and I texted I was driving. My thing is every state needs to follow Cali on this if they want to make a big dent.

When they start putting point on your license, and nailing folks with big fines, more folks with take it seriously. Right now not enough people are.]]>Jan 1st 2010 5:14PM