Texting and driving is out of control

Keep honking, you are doing God's work. One day you may save a life.

nothing wrong with textin traffic i type this as drive

I tried honking for years to no avail. Finally decided to just text them and I have had a lot better success getting my message across.

Car accidents secondary to texting are at an all time high for us. Pity that it's something that is 100% avoidable. The real tragedy is when he/she that is texting lives, but kills someone else.

if you can't beat them ....you know the rest wrote:

I tried honking for years to no avail. Finally decided to just text them and I have had a lot better success getting my message across.

Jerry Seinfeld suggested that our license plate numbers should also be our cell phone numbers for occasions like this.

Is it not illegal to be on your mobile while driving over there?

track chick wrote:

Is it not illegal to be on your mobile while driving over there?

Not all states. For example: California-yes, Utah- no.

I think it should be illegal.

It is illegal. Usually I will glance over at the omnipresent cops in my area and THEY are texting when they pull up beside me at a light. Cops here only care about picking on the homeless.

As someone who has to actively resist the urge to pull out the phone at traffic lights (sad, I know) I think it is time to think beyond driving. I have pre-school age children and I hope by the time they are 16 years old driving becomes a skill as outdated as calligraphy.

While older drives are not guilt free, it is a lot of young drivers who are guilty of this. It is also younger drivers that will embrace driver free tech (which would work best with 100% compliance).

response in traffic wrote:

nothing wrong with textin traffic i type this as drive

If you're kidding...good one. If you're serious...you're a human male phallic object.

Pirate Shirt wrote:

if you can't beat them ....you know the rest wrote:

I tried honking for years to no avail. Finally decided to just text them and I have had a lot better success getting my message across.

Jerry Seinfeld suggested that our license plate numbers should also be our cell phone numbers for occasions like this.

So that you can text someone while driving to complain to them that they're texting while driving? Yeah, that sounds about like Jerry Seinfeld's level of intelligence.

This side up wrote:

track chick wrote:

Is it not illegal to be on your mobile while driving over there?

Not all states. For example: California-yes, Utah- no.

I think it should be illegal.

Yes, making it illegal will do it, just like it fixes every other societal problem

Sliding Scale wrote:

As someone who has to actively resist the urge to pull out the phone at traffic lights (sad, I know) I think it is time to think

I often check my phone at lights. I make sure to regularly look up to make sure the light hasn't turned. I move when it's time to move and I've never been honked at. Is it that bad?

I absolutely refuse to touch the phone while the car is moving, except when I'm using it for navigation -- which I have to admit, is not all that safe. On occasion I've definitely had to stare down at the map for a few moments longer than I should have. I try to use voice prompts but sometimes it's not clear, e.g. if the road has a weird three-way fork.

Racket wrote:

Pirate Shirt wrote:

Jerry Seinfeld suggested that our license plate numbers should also be our cell phone numbers for occasions like this.

So that you can text someone while driving to complain to them that they're texting while driving? Yeah, that sounds about like Jerry Seinfeld's level of intelligence.

Same observations...

Also what annoys me is when I get home, and my wife says to me - "hey, why didn't you answer my texts?" And she knows I've been in my car, in rush hour traffic for more than an hour, and that I shouldn't be texting her back. Go figure.

I do have a hands-free device for my car, so if she really needed something, she could call...but nooooooooo.

She's notorious for her lengthy texts. Like small novels.

Racket wrote:

Pirate Shirt wrote:

Jerry Seinfeld suggested that our license plate numbers should also be our cell phone numbers for occasions like this.

So that you can text someone while driving to complain to them that they're texting while driving? Yeah, that sounds about like Jerry Seinfeld's level of intelligence.

I honestly don't know what to say here. I hope you're just kidding/being sarcastic. If not, you're the last person that should be commenting on someone else's intelligence.

Wow, dude. wrote:

Racket wrote:

So that you can text someone while driving to complain to them that they're texting while driving? Yeah, that sounds about like Jerry Seinfeld's level of intelligence.

I honestly don't know what to say here. I hope you're just kidding/being sarcastic. If not, you're the last person that should be commenting on someone else's intelligence.

No, I just assume Seinfeld is an idiot and incapable of irony. Do you think otherwise? If so, you're the last person that should be commenting on someone else's intelligence.

Phone logs dumped at every accident. Any driver who was on the phone within 60 seconds of the accident is automagically at fault.

Penalties for distracted driving should equal those of drunk driving. We've assigned greater penalties to being drunk even though the end result is the same. Why should willfully paying less attention be less of a penalty than being drunk?

Danny Democrat wrote:

Phone logs dumped at every accident. Any driver who was on the phone within 60 seconds of the accident is automagically at fault.

And if they were BOTH on the phone, demolition derby to determine the winner!!!