[SDCBC] FW: bike safety and good neighbor relations

[Neil Brooks]

I replied to just John, instead of to "everybody ..." yet again.  

Must be on my cell phone ;-)

--- John Forester <forester at johnforester.com> wrote:

> I remember, some five or a bit more years ago, considering with my 
> passenger the troubled times that both of us predicted would occur, 
> and that we are still undergoing. Does that mean that I was then 
> driving with the accident potential of being almost drunk? Of course, 
> if the driving task becomes more difficult, then I stop the 
> conversation while I handle it. Maybe the problem with the cell phone 
> is that the other person, not being in the car, cannot observe the 
> reason for the conversation to lapse.

That's the speculation, John, and it seems awfully logical to me.  

Another view of the same thing is that -- when the going gets tough (or the driver is looking for
an exit, etc., etc.) -- your passenger usually intuits when it's time for THEM to stop talking.  

The person on the other end of the cell has -- innocently enough -- not a clue.