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so what do you think?? in my opinion it should be illegal!! it takes to much concentration to text while driving and takes your focus off of driving your vehicle. i guess the big question is do you want to die from someone who is just chatting???
While anything that takes your concentration away from the task at hand should be penalized, enforcement would be pretty difficult. No talking to any passengers, no fiddling with the radio, no eating, etc.
No I don't think we should have a law against texting while driving.
It's stupid to have a law for every possible distraction that can be encountered while driving. I believe we already have laws regarding driving while distracted, that is enough.
If we insist on making a new law for everything that could distract you we will soon need a building just to house the volumes that will be created. If you are too stupid to know what is a distraction, you are too stupid to drive.
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No I don't think we should have a law against texting while driving.
It's stupid to have a law for every possible distraction that can be encountered while driving. I believe we already have laws regarding driving while distracted, that is enough.
If we insist on making a new law for everything that could distract you we will soon need a building just to house the volumes that will be created. If you are too stupid to know what is a distraction, you are too stupid to drive.
i agree with you in some sence of the matter... but some things are way more distracting that others.. it's like everything when enough people die from texting while driveng they will implement laws that make it illegal!!!! would you text if it was a 500 dollar fine..like i said in previous post it's a hundread bucks if you get caught not wearing your seat belt here on st croix... beleave me i wear my seat belt not becase it saves my life i wear it because i dont want to pay a hundred bucks for not wearing it..the way i look at it if it's 100 bucks for not wearing a seat belt it should be 500 for texting while driving..
Where are the Republicans crying "WAHHH the government wants to tell me what to do?"
I support banning texting while driving.
I don't have a cell phone, don't know how to text, and I'm not a republican.
But the government shouldn't be telling me what I am or am not capable of in my own car. I will take responsibility for my actions, which means gauging my abilities against the risks and circumstances. I don't need some stinking politician to do my thinking for me.
Usually I oppose nanny laws,but this one I agree with,because texting most surely can kill or maim others.A couple of months ago was driving a 4 lane freeway,moderate traffic,moving well at 65-70 mph.All of a sudden traffic slows and becomes erratic,with vehicles making sudden lane changes and/or slowing up ahead.A car in #2 lane doing only 50,drifting from side to side,sometimes into adjacent lanes.As I changed lanes to pass him,glanced over at him into his cabin.Guess what he was doing.
i agree with you in some sence of the matter... but some things are way more distracting that others.. it's like everything when enough people die from texting while driveng they will implement laws that make it illegal!!!! would you text if it was a 500 dollar fine..like i said in previous post it's a hundread bucks if you get caught not wearing your seat belt here on st croix... beleave me i wear my seat belt not becase it saves my life i wear it because i dont want to pay a hundred bucks for not wearing it..the way i look at it if it's 100 bucks for not wearing a seat belt it should be 500 for texting while driving..
Personally, I wouldn't text anyway but the people who do, do it even though they stand a higher risk of wrecking than getting a ticket so if getting killed doesn't deter them I don't know if $500 fine would. But, if that does then maybe there is a good reason for a separate law
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I don't have a cell phone, don't know how to text, and I'm not a republican.
But the government shouldn't be telling me what I am or am not capable of in my own car. I will take responsibility for my actions, which means gauging my abilities against the risks and circumstances. I don't need some stinking politician to do my thinking for me.
You are right, the gubmint shouldn't have to but it seems obvious to me that some are too stupid and need to be told. I'm all for personal rights, that's why I don't much like it when some people think their right to act reckless and negligent out weighs my right to safe travel. I don't have a problem with you taking responsibility for your actions, I just would rather you not think it's OK that taking responsibility for killing me while you do is good enough.
Do you also think you have the right to drive while impaired by drugs or alcohol? What's the difference?
You are right, the gubmint shouldn't have to but it seems obvious to me that some are too stupid and need to be told. I'm all for personal rights, that's why I don't much like it when some people think their right to act reckless and negligent out weighs my right to safe travel. I don't have a problem with you taking responsibility for your actions, I just would rather you not think it's OK that taking responsibility for killing me while you do is good enough.
Do you also think you have the right to drive while impaired by drugs or alcohol? What's the difference?
You don't have a right to safe travel. You have a right to travel, which includes evaluating and accepting the risks that travel carries with it. Rights are essentially personal decisions, not "freedom froms".
Other people do not have the right to attack or damage you and your property and if they do, then you can seek compensation or even some form of retaliation. They have a responsibility to not damage other people or their property. That may or may not include driving under some kind of impairment. I would certainly hope they would not. But even though there is a law, people still do it, so you still must be prepared to deal with it. Your right is decide what measures you will take when traveling to protect yourself.
Note: The way I talk about rights is in the inalienable sense, not in the "granted by law, government, or hoodoo monster" sense.
Yes. But there doesn't need to be infinite laws about what you CAN'T do while driving (phone, text, makeup, reading, etc), there need to be just one good law stating that driving requires 100% of your attention.
How do you prove that someone is texting? My phone doesnt have an outbox. Once I send a message, there is no record of it. I know I dont trust cops to make that determination. It is just giving cops another excuse to pull people over.
I'm not saying that I think people should be texting while driving but you cant make everything illegal. Some things are just common sense.
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