Is it stupidity or indifference?
 

While driving yesterday morning over the Sumpter Landing bridge, I passed a lady driving a golf cart who was holding a tablet on the steering wheel as she was typing on it. Needless to say she was swerving from one cart lane to another as she drove.
Stupidity or indifference? Your thoughts please.

Thoughtless hubris that nothing bad can happen to you.

Stupidity

When you pass very slow drivers on the highway, check out what they are doing. . Most are looking at a cell phone, one person was watching a movie going 30 mph below the speed limit at rush hour on a two lane highway side. .

I passed on person typing on his phone, then in the rear view mirror, watched him drive completely off the road, hit a small tree, jerk the wheel left and back into his lane, but almost cross into the oncoming lane. Then he pulled over. .

Many reasons are personal, but many don't realize the risk until the risk happens, and risk happens fast. .
another example of it works until it doesn't. .

Blame it on the dopamine sales of instant gratification

She's practicing for the Flying Golf Carts.

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Both, plus it’s an addiction. Why can’t people enjoy life without being constantly glued to a mobile device?

Whoopee!
 

Both?

I walk a lot on the MMPs and occasionally encounter an older gentleman on a bicycle, with his cell phone on some kind of holder on the handle bars. He gives the phone most of his attention, glancing up and around at rare intervals. I've had to warn him with a loud "heads up!" shout one time as he swerved directly at me. It got his attention; he avoided hitting me.

Haven't seen him in 3-4 months.

A multi task’ er master of none… :thumbup:

I saw one driving while holding a full wine glass in a golf cart a week ago. See people smoke in one hand cell phone in the other while driving with the last one making a left turn. Sad

Saw a cart about two years ago moving at about walking speed on an MMP. One driver, no passengers. Had one of those white canes that vision-impaired people use bungee-corded on the back of his cart.

True story.

I think a lot of people view the carts as toys- and as such assume there is little danger in operating them.

News Flash!

Someone somewhere does something stupid...

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It's lack of spacial awareness. Some people are just incredibly myopic. They were never taught to pay attention to their surroundings, that the world revolved around them, and so it's everyone else who has to watch out for them, not the other way around.

Feel free go go all "New York Attitude on them and yell "hey whdddya think yer doin ya nutball, git over to the left and stay here, meaball or i'mm pop you one hard when your not looking."

when they're next to you with the window open and music blaring, just open your window and sing your favorite tune as loud as you can, or show them how you can sing their tun better than they can..