Comments on: Why texting while driving should be banned – worse than driving drunk

By: JohnJ

JohnJ — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:05:41 +0000

Well, that was a mature response. Tell us, o person without a name, how well will new anti-texting laws be enforced when the existing laws (that already cover texting) aren’t enforced?

By: a non e mous

a non e mous — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:16:58 +0000

You bunch of dumbshits!

While there are people out there who don’t see the clear risks inherent in cell phone use while driving, we will always need to legislate specifically for it.

It’s no good banging on about common sense, because it actually isn’t all that common.

Take it from me, as a paramedic who regularly scrapes broken people out of their smashed up cars: you have to have sledgehammer laws to that the fuckwits don’t get any excuses.

By: JohnJ

JohnJ — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:45:09 +0000

Besides the morons who do text and email while driving, it’s amazingly dumb that we’re considering additional laws to ban it.

We already have laws against it. It’s called “distracted driving” and/or “reckless driving”. They cover it just like they cover it for cell phone usage in general. They’re good laws in that they are not specific to any one set of technologies. They stand the test of time. Texting while driving laws will be out of favor in a year or two when speech-to-text or some other tech takes over and actual typing becomes passe.

Write your legislature and tell them we don’t need them to be members of the Department of Redundancy Department. What we need is enough police on the roads to enforce the laws that have already been enacted.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:07:55 +0000

What is truly sad is that there are inconsiderate folks that are so stupid as to text/email while driving. There is simply NOTHING so important you can’t pull your lazy ass off to the side of the road and test your eyeballs out. And then shut the stupid thing off before you pull back into traffic.

By: Catmoves

Catmoves — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:28:06 +0000

How sad it is to have to create a law aginst this sort of thing. Perhaps a vow to cede your first born to the State if you ever violate this common sense approach would be appropriate? Perhaps a robotic control in all vehicles that, should the driver be texting, will shut down the engine, prevent restart and call the police to hand out a ticket in the range of, say $25,000 for the first offense, with geometric fines as the number of one’s violations grow.
For one thing, that might end the short fall some states consistently have due to their pork barreling.
Or we could, for various degrees of violations, remove a lung, kidney, or other anatomical parts to be used to repair those victims who need these parts due to a texting driver causing a smashup?