Texting and Driving

One thing im pretty big against is texting and driving.

Sometimes you got to enter a address for navigation or check something on your phone and your options may be limited in those situations. But I dont think theres ever an excuse to carry out a full fledged text conversation or respond to a email or mess around on your phone and look up facebook, something on the internet or even thewarpath via tapatalk. If you need to talk to someone while youre driving just pick up your phone and call or better yet wait until youre no longer moving.

I think its way worse for most people then drinking and driving is, at least at the lower ends of the illegal impairment threshold. Either way its one of those things that just arnt worth it, and not because of your own saftey but for the safety and property of others.

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How many times do you need to escape near accidents before you stop? Too bad a semi didnt hit him...that would have shown the little fcker.

How do they know he was texting/driving? the way the car was weaving, sure looked, more like either sleeping or under the influence. And I agree about the story mentioning the hypocrisy of the guy who is driving and recording and talking.

I think the above is more then just a case of texting. i think you stop after some of those close calls.

I hate people that text and drive to the point where if i saw one i blow the horn or try to get their attention. My wife pointed out I am just as distracted as them if i am doing that so I quit and i just work on being a defensive driver in general. So many idiots out there.

I will admit I have done it before. Have not in a while, since it is a very dangerous thing to do.

How do you enforce it though? It has to be near impossible to. Without video evidence, how would a cop's claim hold up in court?

Has someone been watching Oprah?

http://www.oprah.com/questionaire/ipledge.html?id=4

I've done it. There was a time when my daily commute was about 3 hours round trip. Based on the nature of my job, I needed to be on top of what was going on and that meant reading and responding to multiple emails. I try to be smart about it though, if I need to send a lengthy text I'll pull over.

But where do you draw the line. I see people on the road putting sugar in their coffee and driving, putting on their makeup and driving, even seen people reading the newspaper (they just lay it out on their steering wheel) and driving. Unfortunately, as many laws, a law against texting and driving and cell phone use and driving is in place because of people who are incapable of doing both, or better said, incapable of realize when they can't do both.

I will text/check e-mail/etc at a stoplights occasionally. When it changes I set the phone down. Put the phone up so I can look at the light or car in front of me while texting. I used to think texting and driving was the dumbest thing you could do, then I saw this (http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-shaving-driving,0,1367286.story)

They've done studies that show texting or even talking on the cell phone (with phone up to your ear) impairs you just as much as having a blood alcohol content above the legal limit.

It's incredibly dangerous and irresponsible, I can't understand why anybody would attempt to do that while their car is moving. Stoplights fine, obviously there's no risk there.

But how the hell can you react to the unexpected when you're looking at your phone?!

People are idiots. If I could block them from doing this, I would!

When the whole texting phenomenon was born, I did it while driving quite often, but I almost rear-ended the car in front of me on two seperate occasions -like I had to slam the brakes- so at point I stopped. If I'm stopped at a red light I'll fire off a quick sentence or two, but never when the car is moving. I came very close to learning the hard way about that.