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I think that it is totally messed up that they don’t want us to look at our cell phones while driving, but apparently it’s ok for us to read billboards. They even have electric billboards that change the screeen every ten seconds. Isn’t that more distracting than a phone? It bothers me that they are illegalizing phones in cars but they aren’t illegalizing giant computers on the side of the highway. I really don’t see a difference between the two, except that one of them is twenty feet in the air.
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Posted by Anonymous 18th March 2011
Actually it has been proven that texting or calling while driving can impair your driving more than alcohol, and I think we have all run into the crappy driver who isn’t paying attention because they can’t stop yacking on their phone. I have never seen someone crash because of a billboard, but I have seen crashes happen because someone was on a cell…Posted by Anonymous 26th March 2011
in my state if you’re over 18 you can use a cell phone while driving. Thing is though, I believe Cellphones yes should be allowed but as my state requires, they must be hands free. Drivers on cell phones rarely use turn signals, they cause a high percentage of collisions,(in-fact I saw a cell phone caused car crash about a week ago) Cell phones impair people’s driving dramatically. Have you ever been in a car where the driver grabbed their cell phone dialed, called someone, talked on the phone? It’s scary as hell, they swerve in their lane, don’t use their turn signal cuz their too dumb to put the phone in their right hand. Hell I’ve seen a lady driving next to me with 2 different phones held to her ears, scared the shit out of me, seconds later she swerved into my lane and into the shoulder swerved back dropped her phone and stopped on the freeway. If I wouldn’t have seen her on those two phones I may have been dead.Posted by Anonymous 25th April 2011
A cell phone is something you choose to pick up. Advertising is something most of us choose to avoid. They are not comparable. A scrolling marquee trying to sell you snake oil isn’t nearly the distraction that texting, at your girlfriends request, how your going to fingerbang her on her period is.Posted by Anonymous 29th June 2011
I almost got into an accident because of a billboard that grabbed my attention. I ignore them but occasionally you?ll have one such as the ?pray the gay away camp? advert that got posted along a busy interstate a few years ago. I would see it on my way home every day and it was funny to see the people in cars react to it. I could tell which ones were seeing it for the first time since they?d slow down and swerve a little because their attention was fully on that ad.Posted by Anonymous 14th April 2013
You can still see the road in your peripheral vision when you look at a billboard. If they were that dangerous they would not be there and there would be billboard looking accidents every second on every highway in the country. Stupid analogy.Posted by wow that guy 21st May 2014
“A cell phone is something you choose to pick up. Advertising is something most of us choose to avoid. They are not comparable. A scrolling marquee trying to sell you snake oil isn’t nearly the distraction that texting, at your girlfriends request, how your going to fingerbang her on her period is.”Posted by Green Bee 29th November 2016
Actually, those electronic billboards are more distracting than one might think! I’ve known of an entire city (filled with rich, rich, rich people) who banned ALL billboards, saying precisely that! They even made it where signs had to be normal sized! Surprisingly, it was just as easy to spot, since there wasn’t a bunch of billboards getting in their way!Posted by Anonymous 4th March 2017
Well I agree with you. But a lot of car accidents have involved texting while driving. None have involved reading a billboard. And I am sure when that happens they will take action on itPost a confession or rant now! It’s completely anonymous.
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Posted by Anonymous 13th March 2011
You make an interesting and valid point. Come to think of it, I don’t see the difference either. Just to be clear, do you want them to ban billboards or ease up on cell phone use?