NEWS: Driving While Texting

CULTURE: Driving While Texting

Remember when drinking and driving was legal? Neither do I, but someday we might be able to say that we actually do remember when texting and driving was legal. It's gotten to the point where enough lives have been lost to idiots texting behind the wheel (like this genius in Kentucky, this genius from Colorado, and this genius from Tennessee) that 9 out of 10 Americans say texting while driving should be banned.

Interesting overlap, there. Almost all Americans think it's a really really bad idea, but over half do it. Sounds kind of like an addiction.

This past May, Washington State passed the first ban in the United States on texting while driving, and it's looking like other states including New York, California, and Florida are considering similar legislation.

USA, RU beggiN 4 a nanny st8? cn u really nt ctrl yrselves? taK d Fkng bus f u cnt put yr fons dwn! Geez Louise.

B4N.

5 girls died in Fairport, NY this summer right after graduating from High School. It is believed that the driver may very well have been texting while driving. So I guess, yeah, don't do it. Or you're a fucking moron.

Don't forget Illinois.

I ride a bike. For people who talk on the phone or text(!!!) while driving: let's get one thing straight, you're endangering my life. I see the way you fuckers drive, like a fucking brain-dead 2-year old playing with a toy dashboard. You think you can pull it off; you can't. I can spot you idiots three blocks away.

If you pointed a gun at me, I'd feel safer. But if you're driving a car, and you don't see me because you're on the phone (!?!?!? seriously, wtf ?!!?!), I also feel totally justified in grabbing that phone out of your hands, throwing it across the street, and giving you a close up view of my U-lock. Shut the fuck up and pay attention. Ass.

*Perhaps the most threatening thing I've ever said on SG, but people on phones drive like fucking idiots every day, and I'm sick of it.*

How about banning anything that is not fuckin driving while you are fuckin driving!

Ugh, I heard about this when it happened in Colorado...I seriously don't get it...talking on the phone while driving is bad enough, but wouldn't you rather use a few minutes air time to ask for directions than get in a fatal car accident? nevermind the fact that people's manners are falling to pieces because of cell phones...what do you say at the funeral about someone who died from texting? 'sry dude, u wr gr8t'?

ever see someone talking or texting while riding a bike?! UGH!

Yes, and that's just as stupid. But I feel a little less threatened by a 150lb idiot, on a 20-30 pound bike, going 12 mph than I do with some fucktard in a 2-3 ton SUV at 45 mph.

or those listening to headphones while biking and swerving all over your side of the road because you can't hear fucking traffic coming behind you? UGH!!


Okay the guy in Kentucky though, not that I'm arguing on his side or anything, and yes I'm guilty of texting while driving but WHAT in the world was a TWO YEAR OLD doing in the fucking street at 10PM anyway??? Again I'm not blaming anyone but the guy driving while texting but still why is there a two year old in the street or NEAR the street at 10pm?? THAT pisses me off more than anything.

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I know this conversation isn't going to turn into a bad cyclists vs bad drivers conversation, right? There a stupid people in/on any kind of vehicle. They all need to pay attention.

Multi-tasking while driving generally = bad idea.

THANK YOU!

AMEN! (i work at a grocery store : P )

+1

Something similar should be made with operating an iPod while driving. I let the playlist run and ocasionally change songs at the red light, but I think the guy who tries to pick one song out of the list at the wheel is just as threatening if not more than the one texting his friend to ask "what's up".

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Well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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aaronthere said:
How about banning anything that is not fuckin driving while you are fuckin driving!

I'm with this guy.

Fun Fact: Nothing typed by somebody's thumbs has ever been important.

CKDexterHaven said:
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aaronthere said:
How about banning anything that is not fuckin driving while you are fuckin driving!

I'm with this guy.

Hey, it's a free country. If I want to drive with my knees while I roll a cigarette and sing along with the radio, then I will.

As far as I'm concerned, the sub-fucks who are actually doing this, no great loss. (They're usually the same morons who think that Maroon5 play "alternative" music and are really jazzed about the 3.5 mpg their hummers are getting.) It's the innocent bystanders I'll shed a tear for. People really are fucking idiots...

in new zealand if you are found using a cell phone while driving you are automaticall issued with instant fine...it is not law perse'...but most cities here have it has a by law.

Does that mean listening to the radio, or drinking some water if you are thirsty? sounds pretty harsh, and driving means different things to different people, you would have to tighten up the definition of driving, and then give a list of acceptable driving activities, and unacceptable driving activities. to say ban anything that is not driving while driving is pretty ambiguous.

Why does anyone think that trying to make messages with your thumb on a phone with itty bitty numbers whilst driving would be a good idea?

Because people are disgustingly self centered and believe that every thing about them is a life or death matter. What if your boyfriend has to wait fifteen minutes to find out how your day was? THE WORLD COULD END!