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I've never met a local or state police LEO in CA who had a surplus of time :beer: There's always more than double what they have time to handle, with the staff and budget they have available. Interesting thought exercise, how much of your state is funded from vehicle fines and tickets... I've...

I had a boss in a job about 15 years ago who was from New York. When we were in a large car and he was talking to the people in the back seat, he'd always turn around and face them - as in, for several seconds, even on a crowded freeway or in stop and go traffic. It was my understanding at the...

Yeah, hand-in-hand with inability to take reponsibility for our actions, comes inability to take necessary action, and indigestion... [thumbzup]

I've always enjoyed when this point is brought up by people here in the US - it's funny to me how much all the other drivers are relying on the drivers in front of them to break the law that they don't feel the need for the 2-seconds rule for their own safety (because "it's the other driver's...

Yeah and it's sad that many of the human-error crashes and accidents that happen now are the result of the human pilots over-reliance on automation (when the automation stops working, they don't know what they're doing), or the incorrect operation or interpretation of what the automation is...

Here in California we have a fine for texting ($20-$76 first offense, $50-190 for each subsequent), and you can be cited for being "distracted" if you manage to make a convincing argument to the officer that it's not a phone - but defining texting/phone-use as reckless would make you subject to...

Yeah, I think the Canadian threat of reckless driving is where to go, we just need to tweak what we consider reckless... From Wikipedia: "...Reckless driving is often defined as a mental state in which the driver displays a wanton disregard for the rules of the road; the driver often misjudges...

Yeah, I stop short of encouraging stupidity in situ :beer: My position is that it's a free country, and if it's the personal choice of an individual to knowingly violate a rule/law that was put in place because people were too stupid to think for themselves, I'm not a cop or a lawyer... and...

One of my cop friends told me once several years back: "Finding people to pull over is like duck hunting - you can pull over the ones that stick out, and if you don't see one of those, you can just grab anyone out of the crowd..." Having done Loss Prevention in retail myself, I can attest to...

I resemble that remark :) It also pays to realize that we have more first generation drivers in our stat than most others (people didn't get the benefit of watching thier parents drive for decades before giving it a shot themselves). We also just recently got the "move over or slow down" for...