What is wrong with Texas? (Richmond, Shepherd: insurance, how much, school)

[DANNYY]

When there is an increasing number of drunk drivers and DUI drivers by each year you can expect things like this.

I'm sure the state of Texas asks, "What is wrong with kids these days?". When they are hazardous to themselves and others innocent on the road.

[Texascrude]

Originally Posted by OmShahi

When there is an increasing number of drunk drivers and DUI drivers by each year you can expect things like this.

I'm sure the state of Texas asks, "What is wrong with kids these days?". When they are hazardous to themselves and others innocent on the road.

I think we all ask "What's wrong with kids these days?"... I swear, the most self-centered and most misguided generation this planet has ever seen.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by Texascrude

I think we all ask "What's wrong with kids these days?"... I swear, the most self-centered and most misguided generation this planet has ever seen.

I am 20, and I ask that question a lot too. When laws change because some idiot kid goes out drinking and driving and kills a whole family in the process... that really reflects the negatives.

Not all kids are like that, but there's an increasing number carelessness.

[Scheng]

i lived in may countires and I have to say that the drivers here are one of the worst i have ever seen. dont just blame the younger people when you are not much better. this is like a cigar smoker lecturing a pot smoker. you all arent good drivers. a law like this wont change nothing about the attitude of the people. its not that they dont know how to drive. they just make the wrong choices. i have to say that i used to be a better driver too. im starting to blend in somehow too. im always amazed at what you see here on the freeway. and those are not the younger people only by far. its just not fair to blame only them like in this thread.

[jfre81]

I blame all the idiots babbling on their phones, texting, updating their Facebook statuses and tweeting that they're driving while stupid, putting on makeup, whatever they're doing instead of paying attention to what they're doing.

Regardless of age.

[Scheng]

Originally Posted by jfre81

I blame all the idiots babbling on their phones, texting, updating their Facebook statuses and tweeting that they're driving while stupid, putting on makeup, whatever they're doing instead of paying attention to what they're doing.

Regardless of age.

yes. you are a smart person then.

[Reivax]

Originally Posted by jfre81

I blame all the idiots babbling on their phones, texting, updating their Facebook statuses and tweeting that they're driving while stupid, putting on makeup, whatever they're doing instead of paying attention to what they're doing.

Regardless of age.

So true. It absolutely astounds me how many people I see on my daily Beltway commute that are texting, drinking a coffee one hand, holding phone to other ear and driving with elbows, looking all over the front seat for something while swerving all over their lane and my favorite, putting on eyeliner while driving.
Not making it up, and not exaggerating, I see this every single day and many times. Oh, and none of them are 16 year olds, they're all grown adults.
In the afternoon commute, I would take a rough guess and say that at least half of all drivers are using a cell phone while driving.

[jfre81]

The problem is I'm not sure that driver's ed will fix any of that.

I never took "official" driver's ed and was driving pretty long distances fairly regularly for work assignments long before I hit 24. This would've messed my stuff up a bit. Of course even then I didn't have a phone glued to my ear.

Most every day I find myself at the intersection of South Shepherd and Richmond at some point in the afternoon. If I hit a red light, I like to count how many people are on the phone in the crossing traffic. Can reliably hit five or six at ease, and that's if I only caught half the red light.

[abrar2011]

Originally Posted by elnina

OP here is a simple question:
do you know how to drive a car and know the rules and regulations?

back in my home country, i drove manual shift cars, though it was illegal since i was only 14, i got lucky. and believe me, i drove in WORSE conditions and on broken streets. if you're familiar with Indian traffic, you'll know what i'm talking about. AND i never hit something or anything.

oh, and a few months ago, i was so bored i read the whole "Texas Driver's Handbook" and i promise i would've passed the test if i was allowed to take it. i knew almost everything in the book.

so yeah, i know how to drive and i know the rules and regulations.

[Topaz]

Darn, I keep trying to give reputation to many of you and apparently I've already done so to everyone I wanted to rep again!