Movement to ban text messaging while behind the wheel gathers steam

[darth los]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32584570...h_and_gadgets/ It seems like a good idea to me. Don't get me wrong. I'm not in favor of encroachment on our liberties but texting while driving is endangering the lives of other people. If you look at mandatory seatbelt law however, that should be a person's own choice. If they splatter their brains all over the windshield, it's a tragedy but, it's ultimately just them we're talking about and a person should have full say over what happens to them individually.

[SRP76]

I wonder how people survived without screwing around with a phone every second of every day. Seriously, does anyone need to be typing messages when driving down the road? It absolutely can NOT wait?

[darth los]

I wonder how people survived without screwing around with a phone every second of every day. Seriously, does anyone need to be typing messages when driving down the road? It absolutely can NOT wait? Exactly the way I feel. Human beings are so spoiled nowdays. I was speaking the other day that if someone wanted to bring about armegeddon a nuclear war wouldn't be the practical way to go. All they would have to do is disable power grids. Without electricity you would have the kind of chaos that we saw in New Orleans after Katrina except everywhere. I had another heated conversation with this dude about how he didn't really need his cell phone. He was adamant that he did. Like food and water kind of adamant. True story. All I know is that not all that long ago in the late 90's virtually no one had a cell phone and we a seemed to get along just fine.

[krakenslayer]

In the UK it's actually illegal to use a phone at all whilst driving, unless it's plugged into a handsfree kit. It ties up one hand and is considered an unnecessary distraction, so if the cops see you use one you can be pulled over and fined. Lots of people do it anyway, but it's becoming less and less socially acceptable to do.

[darth los]

In the UK it's actually illegal to use a phone at all whilst driving, unless it's plugged into a handsfree kit. It ties up one hand and is considered an unnecessary distraction, so if the cops see you use one you can be pulled over and fined. Lots of people do it anyway, but it's becoming less and less socially acceptable to do. You mean, you guys have common sense over there !?! Whoodathunkit? You see, in this country people take their rights to the extreme. Take gun owners and their zealotry with the second amendment right to bear arms in order to keep a well regulated militia. They don't want any restrictions on gun owner's rights at all. And that might work well in rural areas where the populations are relatively low but in more heavily populated areas it's a warzone. I'm all for your right to bear arms but are you for my right to feel safe in my own neighborhood and for my children to be able to play without fear of a shootout? Common Sense.

[MinionZombie]

In the UK it's actually illegal to use a phone at all whilst driving, unless it's plugged into a handsfree kit. It ties up one hand and is considered an unnecessary distraction, so if the cops see you use one you can be pulled over and fined. Lots of people do it anyway, but it's becoming less and less socially acceptable to do. Damn straight - how it should be. I can't be doing with twats yakking on their mobiles while driving, nor stuck-up-themselves 'soccer mom' types who are doing anything and everything whilst driving, except for paying attention to the fucking road. And I can't stand speeders either, they get right on my tits these days, especially people who speed in school zones - utter wankers.

[darth los]

If this passes then it won't be long until they'll have to pass a law banning women from doing their make up in the rear view mirror. That's just as dangerous. It's only right. Let's see the outcry for that.

[MinionZombie]

If this passes then it won't be long until they'll have to pass a law banning women from doing their make up in the rear view mirror. That's just as dangerous. It's only right. Let's see the outcry for that. There should just be a law set up so that any citizen can pull any such dumb twat out of their car and demand their license be revoked.

[Danny]

There should just be a law set up so that any citizen can pull any such dumb twat out of their car and demand their license be revoked. but then every person with a nissan skyline or a subaru will be forbidden to ride there compensating mettalo-phallus around carparks at 11pm!!

[ProfessorChaos]

a kid my brother went to school with died in a car crash, and they found his phone and he was apparently in the middle of texting his gf....while that is pretty sad, i still find humor in this: laws against texting and driving are long overdue.

[krakenslayer]

If this passes then it won't be long until they'll have to pass a law banning women from doing their make up in the rear view mirror. That's just as dangerous. It's only right. Let's see the outcry for that. I might be wrong, but I think that's technically illegal here too. It comes under the same legal status as driving while texting or holding a phone to your ear - they call it Driving Without Due Care and Attention, or something like that.

[capncnut]

And eating. The most dangerous thing to have in a car? A GPS unit.

[darth los]

There should just be a law set up so that any citizen can pull any such dumb twat out of their car and demand their license be revoked. But MZ, without dumb twats no one would ever get laid dude.

[bassman]

Anyone that tries to drive and do something that takes as much concentration as texting does(to me, anyway), needs to get a good swift kick in the balls. That's just a stupid ass move. Just as dangerous as drunk driving, imo.

[EvilNed]

I once tried to sign all the Gulag Execution list confirmations while driving once, and I nearly hit the Premier! Hah, we had a good laugh about it afterwards, but still. Very serious.