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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2962869" data-attributes="member: 30035">I wholeheartedly agree with your rant about drivers on cell phones. I watched an episode of Mythbusters on which they tested to determine if a person talking on a cell phone while driving was better or worse than driving while inebriated. IIRC, they determined that people talking on cell phones drive just as badly as drunk drivers.Even worse to my mind are people talking on cell phones while riding bicycles. The block I live on is technically one-way, but cyclists are allowed to go against the flow of traffic. Now that the weather is nice we get a lot of them. I've seen plenty of them rolling along while chatting on their cell phones, with one hand - or no hands - on the handlebars. Granted, a bike isn't a big weapon like a car, but how are you going to dodge that car door suddenly opening in front of you if you aren't paying attention and don't have a hand on the handlebars? You're not a circus performer! Why do people need to be on their cell phones so much anyway? What's so important that it can't wait for a more convenient (and safer) time to talk? And while we're at it, how about a more private time to talk? People on the bus yak on their cells about the most intimate details - I'd like to think if they were involved in a face-to-face conversation they'd keep their voices lower. Maybe I'm fooling myself about that.  :\</blockquote>