https://zeroinwisconsin.gov/buckle-up-phone-down/
WisDOT challenges Wisconsin to put safety first by taking the two most important actions to prevent or survive a crash. Accept the Buckle Up Phone Down challenge.
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Use your seat belt every trip and put down the phone when driving.
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Take the Buckle Up Phone Down pledge.
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Share your commitment by taking a “thumbs up/thumbs down” photo. Post it to social media using the hashtag #BuckleUpPhoneDown.
Maybe riding a motorcycle has made me hypersensitive to it, but it seems, yes. I see all of you and so many of you are on your cell phones while driving. It’s bad enough I’ve learned to spot you from a hundred yards behind; the subtle drift of your car, checking your speed with the brake pedal, you aren’t smooth in stop & go traffic.
It apparently is a challenge for a lot of you to stay off your phones, a-fucking-lot of you. So it looks like WisDOT is speaking to many of you like children, because many of your fellow drivers are acting like children, unable to prioritize operating their 3,000lbs+ machine safely over Instagram/tik tok/Twitter or whatever the fuck.
I’m also a motorcyclist (hold the motor) and my experience is very similar to yours.
I almost got hit a few weeks back by a car driver trying to turn right on red whilst on a fucking Facetime call, with the phone held up right in front of their face. If I hadn’t been in a rush I would have let them have an earful.
Like, please don’t ever use your phone while driving, but if you absolutely have to be a despicable human being, can you at least look away from the screen when navigating through intersections??
Even in a cradle the “phone brain” is real.
I got a text and opened it, was a link to a YT video from a friend and without thinking I just opened it and let the video play and was like “Hang the fuck on a second, IM DRIVING WHY THE FUCK WOULD I OPEN THAT!?!”
Once I caught myself doing it I was really annoyed at myself.
In my mind, it is a challenge when I have to navigate a touch screen to change the heat setting on this new work vehicle 🤨
My one complaint about my new vehicle. I can basically control everything from the steering wheel, except the A/C. For some reason that needs to be weird touch controls.
It’d be real cool if Wisconsin would issue a challenge for people to not drive drunk. That’d be neat, but I guess they want attainable goals?
I’d say it’s less mildly infuriating and more “how do you do, fellow kids?”.
The campaign looks like it was put together by a middle-aged state government worker trying to seem relevant to their target demographic.
it does, because it is.
but, hey, they’re trying, right?
though, given that it’s fucking WI, have they already tried the “Drive Sober” challenge? They’re not as bad as the Dakotas or Iowa, but boy does it sure spike after the Packers or Brewers let out.
Too bhe faaaair. Wischonshin hash sheveral ofthe the top drunkesht cities innn thse nashon. (just checked and We now claim spots 1-4 +6, 9, 10, 12, 15, and 20. I do not help this statistic but I don’t drive drunk.)
We apparently don’t care, as a whole. There are so many more bars than anything else in most rural/semi-rural areas because non-bar third spaces aren’t a thing. It’s just the only option for people to go to be social.
But we also have had a very regressive government for a long time so…
oh yeah. but, uh, don’t feel too bad. WI is 26th worst in the nation, over all.
That said, for comparison, MN is the 45th worst state. (MT SD, TX, ND, WY are the top five, apparently.)
I remember a time when the Brewers were in town, I was working security for an event lot near Target Field, a coach bus showed up. the underneath cargo area was about half-filled with beer- maybe a fifth of that space was in coolers clearly marked “BEER”. the rest of that half was cases of beer all the way across. Then a quarter was coolers marked as various forms of meat. then there were enough grills to get that done in a reasonable time frame; and the rest was chips and condiments and stuff. Somebody else drove a trailer with chairs and shit.
Mostly, I was impressed by how efficient they were at tailgating. Not that its allowed (Minneapolis requires you to pay a bribe permitting fee to tailgate)
In my country not doing both of those in a moving vehicle gets you fined and/or your license suspended.
Welcome to the 20th century I suppose, America. You’ll make it to actual modern times eventually!
The US absolutely has seatbelt laws, and only two states don’t have cellphone use laws.
Problem is that that they’re rarely enforced.
