Pope Lays Down 10 Commandments – of Good Driving?

Does anybody care what the Pope thinks about driving? Maybe he should stick to his core business of extracting money from his followers.

The Pope is offering spritual advice in the context of our modern preoccupation with the automobile and doing it with a sense of humor!

Thank you Holy Father.

Ha the response seems so typical cynical, choosing to ignore the basic advice: drive like you care about other people instead of being a self-centered pig. What’s wrong with that?

I agree totally with the pope putting this out. If people would care to stop and think, it would help reinforce them to do just that - “stop and think”!
Not many people even use the Identify, Predict, Decide, & Execute (IPDE) method of driving anymore these days (which we all learned in driver’s ed in junior high and/or high school. That is also where we learned the two-second following rule for driving. Nobody does that anymore either. If people really followed these things, there would be alot less car wrecks.

Getting to a destinate two minutes later, but safer, is preferred over having a car wreck because you’re weaving in and out, cutting people off, speeding, not ” “getting the “big picture” “, etc. - and will only cause you more tension.

People trying to send text messages while driving, getting into wrecks because of it, now that’s scary, come on people, it’s getting scary out there, getting worse. Did you see about this lady on the news? The person she hit while trying to send a text message is just as mutilated as she is! I myself almost was killed just the other day, when a lady almost hit me head on because she was trying to use her cell phone while driving! She swirved out of her lane, was speeding also, then was trying to regain control of her car! She missed me by 2 inches! It shook me up so, I broke down crying. We all know it only can take a second, in looking away from the road, for you to possibly crash because someone could either stop in front of you, then you rear end them, you weren’t watching, etc., etc., etc.

I definately agree with something someone said on the news about the pope’s commandments, which is that there should be an 11th commandment, which should be “Thou shalt not use a cell phone while driving”.

If you’re not following the two-second driving rule, you’re either tail gating, and/or not leaving enough room around you to maneuver out of what could all of a sudden be a wreck situation. This also goes if you’re not stopping at a red light like we were taught in driver’s ed. We were taught that we should stop to where we can still just see the back wheels on the road/pavement of the car in front of us. We should still be able to just see a bit of the pavement. This is for being able to clear the car in front of you, if you have to turn left or right to maneuver yourself out of the way to prevent yourself from being involved in a possible upcoming sudden wreck! Like if someone is speeding up to the red light where everyone else is stopped, and not slowing down, not stopping, until he crashes into the car in front of him because he’s not paying attention! This happens! It just also happened to one of my friends the other day, who, “was” using that “just seeing wheels on the pavement rule”, so he was able to drive to the right, up onto the median, and save himself! Or else he would’ve been sandwhiched between the speeding guy, and the car which the speeding guy did crash into at the light! Hardly no one uses this seeing on the pavement rule anymore either, to where all they’re seeing is like the top of the trunk door on the car in front of them!

And there are people who drive friendly and courteous, and then there are the selfish people who speed up because they don’t want you to get in front of them, even though you have your blinker on and are trying to get over and make a lane change. You might make them a second later to their destination, god-forbid! These, unfriendly drivers are, again, the “tension” drivers, and they wind up getting into road rage.

Leave early, sit back, relax, put some relaxing music in your cd player in your car, enjoy the ride, you’ll get there two minutes later, and it’s worth it, cause you won’t have a wreck - safer. I’d rather wait the two minutes then risk being involved in a wreck, because I didn’t take the time to “drive right”.

Above it says email address will not be published. Do not make my email address part of any list and do not email me any types of advertising materials either.

Mary,
Houston, TX

Going to church prepares one for the afterlife we profess to believe in and one of the most important aspects of that is negotiating our way through the earthly life we have been given. It takes regular reminders and instruction to “keep the faith.” We Americans especially spend a lot of time on the roads–a reminder of how to live that part of our lives isn’t a bad idea at all. I’ll bet most of those who choose to criticize the Pope also didn’t read the driver’s manual from their state BMV and likely couldn’t pass a current driver’s exam (road markings and signs are just suggestions to many….)

F the pope. what does he know about our conditions? he rides around in a plexy glass car.

ipd…and WHAT?

jeesh…did he mention listening to christian radio stations? now thats 11.

i doubt that the folks that really care what the pope has to say struggle with road rage etc…now…driving by playgrounds for hours at a time…thats a good one. Kidding,,,really.

Sometimes the pope is really boring … even nowadays .

“Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it, and right is right, even if no one is doing it” All you secular types…”If your not with Christ your anti-Christ!!” Sad choice….

_Somebody_ has to remind people how to behave while piloting a huge mass of metal down the road, inches away from others. Many people seem to have forgotten that driving is a skill. Instead of developing that skill we seem to be more willing to treat our vehicles as large tanks, trying to get a bigger one than anyone else’s and fill it with airbags to cusion us from the impact. All this so we can talk on the phone, text, chat, look at movies, GPS, games, etc.

It would be much better to have more small-to-medium-sized cars and trucks driven by people who can actually drive - who actually pay attention to what is going on outside their little glassed-in cages than to continue escalating the bumper-car mentality.

And please remember folks, to give a second or third look for motorcycles. We simply won’t see them unless we are looking for them.