Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Maybe the problem is we are too quick to lock on to generalizations.
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In 2009 I was living in CA and they made it illegal to text, hold a phone and talk while driving. They pulled people over all the time and I’ve never used my phone while driving since. I was shocked when I moved back to FL in 2021 and you were allowed to use your phone here while driving. I assumed every state had that law. I mean 2009 that went into effect. At least finally, in 2025 Florida decided made a law.
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I had my bike shipped here from Minnesota a couple of months after we moved here. After about a month of riding here, I sold it. I had more close calls in that month riding here than I had in the previous ten years of riding back home. Cell phones were one of the reasons, though I had an anti-cell phone device on the bike: an aftermarket horn that that sounded like a locomotive horn, and at 117 dB it was guaranteed to get anyone's attention. The few times I used it back home I think a couple of texters got whiplash when I sounded it--once, with a younger woman who was coasting through a red light with her head buried in her phone. I used it sparingly (not sure of it's legality), but it surely did work. That was just one of the problems though: a biggie was that in TV particularly I was just not being seen, even by people not using their cell phones. Handle-able on a straight road at speed, but in a crowded roundabout--no, thank you. I had people run stop signs on me, try to pass w/an oncoming car far too close for comfort, etc. It is dangerous enough around here in a car. On a motorcycle, it is far too risky. Last edited by ThirdOfFive; 07-22-2025 at 06:41 AM. |
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I jus knew "the other guy" was going to kill me some day. Too many clueless drivers around here.
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This may seem a little silly as I never owned a motor cycle and would never allow my kids to own one either. However I used to ride my bike around the interior streets daily and more days than not I had to either stop or get off of the road because of drivers coming out of their driveways while talking or texting. I came within inches of being hit when a woman turned left on the wrong side of the road onto the street I was on, I dropped my bike while trying to get out of the way and she never even stopped. I have since sold the bike and now walk.
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Some years ago, I read where cell phones by-law would never officially be illegal while driving, here's why.
There's to many other distractions already added to information screens that, apparently, are legal like adjusting radios, heaters, controlling any on/off buttons, you get the idea. I drive a 2015 with minimal safety features. Honestly, if I had to rent any 2015 vehicle with all the up dated features, God help me. ![]() |
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I was watching an erratic small truck driver ahead of me recently.
I was next to him at the stop light, but couldn't see into the truck to see what he was doing. After the light turned green, I was watching him in the rear view mirror, and watched him drive off the road, go through a building driveway, run over a small tree, and then jerk his wheel back to the now dual lane road from a four lane road, and almost overcorrect into a head one collision. Had there been a car trying to exit the driveway, he would have seriously injured the driver, or even kill the driver. . |
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But you're both correct, it's a bit sketchy out there. I ride very defensively and assume everyone is going to pull out in front of me. Not fun, but you have to ride that way. Since we moved here I've never seen so many bad/distracted drivers, especially in TV. But we pretty much knew that would be the case when we made the move.
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