Why the hell do we have to make laws makeing it illegal to text messaging while driving. I would think its just comman sense not to do it. What makes people think its alright to do it? Are they complete morons? You can't pay attention to the road whats happening around you if your texting while driving?
texting while driving.
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean that people are gonna obey. Look, i know it's illegal, but i still do it on occasion/
Because people ARE complete morons.
There was a local news story tonight about a guy who just got into a bad wreck texting while driving.
I saw a girl on "Dr. Phil" a couple months ago who texts, with both hands, all of the time while driving even while merging onto the interstate. She saw no problem at all that he reaction time would be quadrupled, she had no control over steering the car or that her eyes weren't on the road. They put a camera in her car a taped her driving. They said she'd have her eyes off the road for several minutes at a time!
There's video out there of a bus-driver who crashed into a car while messing with his phone.
People are complete and total morons. If you're texting while driving you should get pulled over, have your license cut-up by the officer on-the-spot and your car towed away and impounded forever.
Because if you text while driving you've no respect for other people's safety.
If you're going to text while driving you might as well be blind.
Seriously. What posess people to think that it's a good idea to take their eyes off the road and focus their attention on a screen and typing in messages? You might as well read a book or paint your windshield black.
Texting while driving is monumentaly stupid and dangerous.
It should be severly punishable. Orders of magnitude worse than even drunk-driving is.
Because at the very least a drunk driver can see the goddamn road!
People who do this should get the death penalty. It'd clear up the highway a bit if nothing else.
John Corzine is a huge fan of it.
There4 are two reason why I never text while driving
a) I don't drive
b) I don't own a cell phone
Therefore i cannot understand why anyone would need to text while driving. Does anyone really text anything important very often? Is there anything ever in text message to urgent that one cannot wait until it is safe to send it?
A girl got on the bus the other day and she was texting while she was boarding. When it came time to pay the driver she was so engrossed in texting the driver had to ask her twice for her money. After he asked her the second time she said "wait a sec" and finished her message before paying him. She was oblivious to the people queuing behind her who she was holding up (on a cold autumn day). Lets hope this young lady never gets a driving licence.
a) I don't drive
b) I don't own a cell phone
Therefore i cannot understand why anyone would need to text while driving. Does anyone really text anything important very often? Is there anything ever in text message to urgent that one cannot wait until it is safe to send it?
A girl got on the bus the other day and she was texting while she was boarding. When it came time to pay the driver she was so engrossed in texting the driver had to ask her twice for her money. After he asked her the second time she said "wait a sec" and finished her message before paying him. She was oblivious to the people queuing behind her who she was holding up (on a cold autumn day). Lets hope this young lady never gets a driving licence.
People are so self-centered now that they have to be TOLD something is wrong or else they think it's okay.
It's the Five-Year-Old Syndrome. Kindergarteners are like that. "Everything I want to do is fine."
--Ted
It's the Five-Year-Old Syndrome. Kindergarteners are like that. "Everything I want to do is fine."
--Ted
I can say that I have indeed had "urgent" text conversations, usually having to do with work-related things. It's rare at my job that an actual phone call would be prudent, so texting is the only way to go.
You had to TRY this before realizing you wouldn't be able to pay attention?
TheLonelySquire
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Someone employed as a trolly conductor in Boston recently caused a major trolley accident while texting. Automatic prison time should be given.
I make it a point to cut off people either yapping on the phone or playing with that damned thing while driving. They're a hazard. Nothing is that damned important that you have to be in constant contact with people at all times.
I have done it exactly once. There was no one on the road other than me, the car was on cruise control, and I did it very slowly - one letter at a time without looking at the keyboard. The hardest part was opening the phone - can't easily do that with one hand.
And it's not illegal in my state.
And it's not illegal in my state.
The closest I've ever done was to read a text while driving and even then I'd look down for maybe a second, read a word, and then look back at the road. After finishing the text, I realized how dumb that was and stopped.
I honestly think more states have laws against calling people while driving than texting people while driving.
I honestly think more states have laws against calling people while driving than texting people while driving.
This. I personally loathe the idea of anyone being able to contact me twenty-four hours a day. Is it really so odd to want to be un-reachable, particularly when you're, you know, off of work?
I think what really inspired this attitude in me is an incident my youngest brother the day he graduated college. He did what anyone his age did, he went bar hopping, and then went to a party with his girlfriend. His boss called him at eleven at night and tried to get him to come into work, and he worked at a freaking gas station! He politely told his boss that he had been drinking all night and that he was just rounding second with his girl, and, no, he wouldn't come in.
They fired him few weeks later after he changed his phone number and they couldn't try and call him in anymore. Their reason was that he was hard to reach despite the fact that he had a land line with an answering machine.
In an era where a goddamned gas station can fire you because because they can't reach you twenty-four / seven I think it's really time to re-examine our use of technology a bit. The same can really be said for anyone who texts while driving. Stiffen the hell out of the penalty if you're in an accident, for starters.
Thank you. A couple of years ago, when I still had a landline, my son freaked when the phone rang while we were eating dinner and I told him, "NO! We are eating dinner and if it's that important whomever is calling will call later." He was perplexed and asked, "What if the person doesn't call back?" I responded, "Oh well. Just because the telephone rings does not mean it has to be answered."
I usually keep my cell phone with me when we're watching a movie, and if it rings I'll decided if I want to talk to the caller. It took him a while to understand that just because the phone rings it does not mean the phone must be answered. That's why voice-mail was invented.
I've texted at stop lights, but that's it.
Yeah, make em crash, that'll teach them for doing something that might make them crash. You SHOW them what a hazard they are by causing a pile up they could have avoided if they just weren't being so damned irresponsible.
I swear, some people really don't need to be in charge of a car.
Yeah, I admit to texting at red lights a couple of times. Texting while driving? Not only is it dangerous but it's also quite difficult!
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