Buds

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To the woman driving the Black IS with a Tan interior that was driving behind me heading south on the Tollway this morning... quit doing your makeup while driving!! You couldn't stay in your lane, you couldn't maintain anything close to a constant speed and you nearly side swiped a car. Luckily I didn't have to stop short or we would have had ourselves an IS make out session that neither one of us would have enjoyed.

I guess some people don't value their cars, personal safety and the safety of those around them as much as most of us here do.

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taylorjste

i see her everyday on the tollway!! sometimes shes in a different car though..

llamaboiz

OMG SHE CAME TO HAWAII TOO, but shes on the stupid FONE all the time in ALL THE CARS I SEE with women drivers...

Just why do chicks talk on the fone all the time while driving??? whats up with that?

chuckb

I'm sure this random lady in an IS is on CL and will see this. LOL

OC 335d

Maybe she would be playing with the Nav if it wasn't disabled.

sirkfc

As much as I dislike the disabled NAV, the car driving culture here in the US really makes us unable to trust each other to be responsible to driving...

So I blame the operation of our NAV on our own driving habits, the fearless belief that we are all in the top 20% of drivers, and the sue-happy society we live in.

This make-up story which we've all encountered just further proves the point that we can't concentrate on driving here... I'm sure she moved onto breakfast and her voicemail after that...

OC 335d

That'd be fine if disabled NAV was the industry standard, but it is not. What if my passenger aka copilot wanted to change the directions for me?

tcho82

iTrader: (1)

06 Nav override FTW!!

MoLexus

On the Dallas Tollway? The lanes are too narrow to do multi-task and drive.

Buds

Yes on the Dallas Tollway.

sirkfc

Yeah, it would be better if the NAV ops was tied to the passenger airbag sensor, but I'm not sure if that'll absolve Toyota of some liability. (I just finished a course in Business Law at B-school and did a lot of work in the course on product liability). The driver operating the NAV even with a passenger is definitely "reasonably foreseeable" for negligent design claims...

Regarding it being an industry standard, it'll only be a matter time that happens once some manufacturer loses that first lawsuit or some zealous state AG reaches some settlement with manufacturers to disable.

I don't see this moving any differently than the move to handsfree phones for driving as more and more states bans handhelds.

ben_r_

Yep, that girl is here too, in ever kind of car imaginable!

fleadog99

iTrader: (2)

Hopefully it wasn't around beltline that area is esp. narrow and turns. Wow I told your mom to be careful in my car but I guess she didn't listen.... hahaha

lexem

Tollroads in Austin are always empty. =)

Buds

hahahah good one . Actually it was just past Royal.