http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/ Engadget Comments for Irate driver rams fellow motorist due to cellphone use http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
This epidemic of "self-entitlement" needs to stop.]]>Feb 22nd 2007 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
The other guy deserves a medal.]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
OWNED!]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
And, please do not tell me that this guy just went off because he saw the other driver talking on the cell phone. I would bet the farm that there was some kind of infraction prior to that.

Even complete and total lunatics have a trigger.]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
Unfortunately sometimes that trigger is oxygen.]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
I give him props, I dont know how many times I've wanted to do this...the only thing that stops me is I dont want to dent up my ride.

He doesn't deserve jail time...just a slap on the wrist.

when I see some going 55 in a 75 because there talking on there phone...the first thing I do it cut them off leaving mere inches between my car and theres.

(its just how I roll)]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
That would be "their" phone - not "there." Learn to spell techno-hater. ]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 23rd 2007 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/and i live less then a mile away from where that happened]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
I was followed home once by a driver who THOUGHT he was right and I was wrong when I did not yield, despite the fact that I had the right of way. When I got home, he got out of his car and started telling me what an idiot I am for failing to yield. The man was a psycho. So, I called the police, they paid him a visit and explained to him that he was wrong on all accounts AND that he's an idiot.]]>Feb 22nd 2007 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Mr. Asselin deserves to be put in prison for that: He's proved himself to be a greater danger to surrounding traffic than the cellphone-talking victim.]]>Feb 22nd 2007 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 23rd 2007 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 22nd 2007 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/"proven" By who?

Also, I gave you the finger for using your GPS but you too busy frigging with it to notice. ]]>Feb 23rd 2007 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070129/100818.shtml

That's just one of the studies, there are many of them that prove that multitasking in general is dangerous. Then of course there's this study:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201586,00.html

About the GPS.. I don't watch it, I listen for audio cues and just glance at it before it asks me to turn. I hardly ever interface with it while driving, because this is extremely dangerous. If I have to change where I'm going, or the view, I will stop on the side of the road to do so. I also stop on the side of the road to accept or make cell phone calls.]]>Feb 23rd 2007 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
i personally think drivers here in the states are awful, especially in the south, but whatever. this guy was in the wrong but i personally become annoyed when someone is driving in the left lane 10mph below the speed limit while everyone is manuevering around them. i mean, get a hint.]]>Feb 26th 2007 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 23rd 2007 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
And I'm gonna dedicate it to all the road-rage-aholics. Wheeeeeeeee!

Get some help!]]>Feb 23rd 2007 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
Yeah, now that's how you drive!]]>Feb 23rd 2007 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 23rd 2007 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/His action was very drastic. But It was induced. Fact is some people don't give a shit about anyone when they're on their phone behind the wheel on the road. That's mean you and I. God knows I've been tempted a few times to do the same as Mr Asselin.]]>Feb 23rd 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/
Uh, no.

This is not the fault of someone talking on a cell phone. This is 100% Mr. Asselin's fault. Asselin's actions were NOT induced. What Asselin did is NOT what normal, healthy people do to find resolution to what may be perceived as an irritant. Asselin had a serious psychological problem. And you're making excuses for it - for inexcusable behavior. Running someone off the road into oncoming traffic and almost killing them because they were talking on a cell phone is not justifiable in ANY sense of the word. There's a reason why HE'S going to PRISON. Get it? Perhaps you're in need of some help, too.

If you're finding yourself so enraged that you're even daydreaming or considering doing what Asselin did because someone is merely talking on a cell phone or simply not driving fast enough for your liking (poor baby), you need help. And this is true, because this rage starts from somewhere, and Asselin is a perfect example of what happens when you don't deal with it before it's too late.]]>Feb 23rd 2007 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 23rd 2007 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/Feb 28th 2007 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/irate-driver-rams-fellow-motorist-due-to-cellphone-use/May 16th 2007 2:57PM