Car Key Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Phones

[hotrodalex]

Why not give our kids clubs and tell them to hunt for their food?

Best idea of 2009.

[Raza]

I think learning how to drive a stick while drinking a soda and eating a burger and some fries is a crucial right-of-passage for any young American.

People who eat in my car end their lives with a shotgun in their mouth, rather quickly. 

I'm just saying. 

[MX793]

Try driving stick in an LHD car using only your left hand.

[Colin]

I'm sorry, but I cannot agree with all this stuff about how drinking your bucket of slurp and jawing on the phone you are clamping to your ear is safe.......... Driving a car requires CONCENTRATION, and it requires some AWARENESS of what is going on around you so that you are in a position to react.

If people want to do other things, then they should not be DRIVING..... they should let someone else do it, or go on a bus or a train.

Period.

[Raza]

Try driving stick in an LHD car using only your left hand.

I've shifted into first with my left hand a few times, but that was always at a standstill.

[Tave]

People who eat in my car end their lives with a shotgun in their mouth, rather quickly. 

No one in the entire state of Wyoming is that anal about their car, except people over the age of 65, and OCD patients.

[Tave]

Try driving stick in an LHD car using only your left hand.

Am I driving or riding shotgun?

[MX793]

Am I driving or riding shotgun?

What was the second word in the sentence?

And I mean shifting while moving, negotiating turns, etc... in a suburban driving environment.

[Tave]

What was the second word in the sentence?

And I mean shifting while moving, negotiating turns, etc... in a suburban driving environment.

I've done that, but only until I finnished my soda.

[S204STi]

Quite a few new cars have engine disabler chips in the keys such that a regular locksmith cannot cut you a new car key.  If you happen to have a blank, they could cut you a new one (though you'd have to program the blank, which generally isn't hard), but I don't know if many lock smiths are able to get blanks.  You have to go to a dealer and have to provide evidence that you own the car.  If the car isn't in your name, you're SOL on getting a new key.

A lot of locksmiths actually carry those keys, but you mentioned the real hangup, which is that they won't cut a key without proof of ownership.

[Tave]

Is that a new thing? I've never had to provide proof of ownership to a locksmith.

[Raza]

No one in the entire state of Wyoming is that anal about their car, except people over the age of 65, and OCD patients.

I'm not from Wyoming.

[Soup DeVille]

Like someone else said. Some of the parents are worse than teenagers when it comes to cellphone use while driving. Soccer moms in their Suburbans and various minivans need one of these keys just for them.  I think this is a good idea 'tho.

In general, parents are worse than teenagers when it comes to just about anything the parents are telling the teenagers not to do.

[MX793]

Is that a new thing? I've never had to provide proof of ownership to a locksmith.

Depends.  When I had my Nissan, the person I bought it from only had 1 key and I wanted a spare made.  I went to my local Nissan dealer and they gave me a run around about needing proof of ownership and then they'd have to contact corporate about getting a new key, blah blah blah.  Local hardware store had blanks (this car was from back in the day when a key was just a plain piece of metal, not a computerized and laser-cut techno wonder) and cut me a new one with no questions asked.

[Minpin]

I'm sorry, but I cannot agree with all this stuff about how drinking your bucket of slurp and jawing on the phone you are clamping to your ear is safe.......... Driving a car requires CONCENTRATION, and it requires some AWARENESS of what is going on around you so that you are in a position to react.

If people want to do other things, then they should not be DRIVING..... they should let someone else do it, or go on a bus or a train.

Period.

Just say how you really feel. You know what i'm talking about. You hate America and think the root of all problems in todays world are because of us fat, lazy, stupid, ignorant,  gun loving, Americans. We are pigs to the holiness that is Europe.

All hail the king..oh wait..did you guys finally figure out that doesn't work or not? They don't teach us much here.