Texting while driving.

thedoc46 · 9 Feb 2010 at 19:33

http://www.cellular-news.com/car_bans/

Can you believe that it's still legal to drive and text in most parts of America ?? :eek:

thedoc46 · 10 Feb 2010 at 00:20

Viper² said:
That's been argued to death on here and proven to be a load of tosh.

What exactly is a load of tosh? A simple message that people texting instead of concentrating on the road runs you at a much higher risk of getting involved in a car crash? Typically causing serious injury and death to others. Why is that not possible? I'm curious as to why you would think this is a load of tosh? Are you retarded? Do you lack any form of common sense? What exactly is it that you don't get?

thedoc46 · 10 Feb 2010 at 02:23

There is an absolutely massive difference from smoking a cigarette or drinking a drink, to texting away while driving.. Think about this.. How many times have you been hooted from behind while at a set of lights cos you are reading an email on your phone???

thedoc46 · 10 Feb 2010 at 05:17

snowdog said:
Depends if you can blind type or not surely? Because if you can you only have to look for a second to see if you wrote what you wanted ? And even then, you don't have to look at the phone all the time, I remember I used to message quite a bit back when I used to cycle to and from work, my eyes were: 2 seconds phone, look forward, 2 seconds phone, look forward, 2 seconds phone, forward, etc...

Guess it depends on the person how they write/type messages.

I mean I know, I've read some articles too that people may not look at the road for 5 seconds when writing texts, but this differs from person to person.

Only in Holland would someone ride a bike and text

Hats off to you for mastering it.. But there's only so much damage you can do losing the front end while reading that text from that lady you've been smooching over. i'm of the attiude that my wife and kids could be in that car that some **** hits head on, cos he's /ahe is arranging a night out while driving at 50mph down the road. Therefore ban it entirely. No excuses. We've all done it, some of us have even nearly crashed.. I've become a little more sensible in my old age and now know it can wait til i'm out of the car. Not worth losing everything over a poxy text message. I live in the USA, make one mistake here and hurt someone and they'll sue you for everything.