What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

fking opinions thread isn't it... hence me saying "i thought". In any case not looking at the road is a far worse distraction than talking whilst looking - it's just fking obvious. Or do you need research to support the meaning of the word obvious.

I hate puns
they're not particularly funny or clever, and I don't just think that because I can never think of any.

I particularly hate cheese puns

My cat was hit outside my house & the previous one never left the boundary of the back garden. So not in all cases.

I hate Bluetooth. If I connect my phone to the car via Bluetooth, it starts to stream music even though I've not asked for it to & I cannot stop it doing so. There is no setting for it, other than delete my music off my phone.

Before anybody asks, it doesn't appear to be phone specific. Just something that the sat-nav in my 2010 Focus does. Dads Sync2 has an option not to stream music.

That's an option. I was going to just delete it all off my phone as I don't remember the last time I listened to anything off it,

There is a mountain of actual evidence, following studies of many drivers in controlled conditions, to show that talking on a hands free mobile device represents a far bigger distraction than talking to a passenger. Much is available online. This research is why this topic is currently in the news.

And as someone who uses a hands free device and takes and makes calls whilst driving, this seems completely obvious to me. There's an argument to say it shouldn't be banned, but to deny that the problem exists runs contrary to all the evidence, and is up there in stupidity with believing in creationism or that the holocaust didn't happen.

If that opinion is unpopular, so much the better.

I would imagine that it would come down to what your conversation was about.

Chatting about quantum physics is obviously more taxing than chatting about what to have for dinner.

Every time i drive my car one of the first things i do before setting off is connecting my phone by aux lead, put internet radio on ( Absolute 70s if you must know ) then put that in the background still playing if i need to use Waze as well. I don't use the cars radio so after I've done that i can drive for however long without touching the phone again. So if this comes in i couldn't do that ? Makes no sense, I also very very rarely get a call on the phone while driving which i don't always answer anyway.

I don't think the girl in the Trivago ad is that good looking.

There, I've said it.

yea but for fks sake, driving is a risk compromise. In order to totally remove risk - let's all stay home. When we acknowledge we cannot stay home, then we accept some risk. Liken it to this. Why not compare a car doing 30mph to a car doing 10mph, and then conclude that because the car doing 10mph is safer, then firstly let's redefine 30mph as maniac unsafe crazy should be made illegal speed, and then secondly conclude that 10mph is the new blanket speed limit. Except you can't stop there because the risk is not zero... so then all cars need to made of cushions. Then we all have to drive at 1mph. Then all cars have to have a constantly sounding klaxon so they can be heard coming. A hands free phone call is far far better than a 'hands on' call. Comparing it to not being on the phone at all. You may as well compare someone in a car driving 90mph to someone reading a kindle in bed. My evidence is non-existent other than it is quite clear that humans can talk and also do another thing at the same time.