Illegal to text while driving

Cappster · Post by **Cappster** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:29 pm

Texting while driving is not a matter of right or wrong...it's just the way it is.

HEROHAMO · Post by **HEROHAMO** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:50 pm

Would you support a law that mandated such devices be placed in everyone's car?

I must have missed this. I am a little late responding.
No I would not support such a device. No way should anyone or thing invade your mind like that especially while driving. It could also distract by irritation.
I would however support a device that would scan the brain for truth if ever one exists. For the purpose of digging for the truth. I would support it for trials in a court of law. It would be a test administered to defendants in major court cases. Such as murders, rapes and anytime there is a major trial.

Countertrey · Post by **Countertrey** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:10 pm

Cappster wrote:Texting while driving is not a matter of right or wrong...it's just the way it is.

I assure you... any decent tort attorney would demonstrate otherwise.

Additionally, as is being demonstrated in a criminal court in Boston, it is viewed as "wrong" by prosecutors and grand juries as well... stand by for modification of this as soon as the plea and/or conviction occurs...
Aiden Quinn certainly "regrets" texting...

If you wish to continue to live in the blissful world of denial, proceed.

Cappster · Post by **Cappster** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:23 pm

Countertrey wrote:
Cappster wrote:Texting while driving is not a matter of right or wrong...it's just the way it is.

I assure you... any decent tort attorney would demonstrate otherwise.

Additionally, as is being demonstrated in a criminal court in Boston, it is viewed as "wrong" by prosecutors and grand juries as well... stand by for modification of this as soon as the plea and/or conviction occurs...
Aiden Quinn certainly "regrets" texting...

If you wish to continue to live in the blissful world of denial, proceed.

I am in denial? I never denied that there were risks involved with texting. I just implied that I wasn't going to stop and that I take caution while I am texting and driving. I also pointed out that texting is not the only distraction of which people partake that contributes to an accident, but you choose to ignore other variables. By your standard, anything that involves taking both hands off of the steering wheel and/or "fiddling" with anything else other while you are driving shouldn't be done. On paper you are logically correct, but practically flawed.

Countertrey · Post by **Countertrey** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:20 pm

By your standard, anything that involves taking both hands off of the steering wheel and/or "fiddling" with anything else other while you are driving shouldn't be done.

Well... finally, we agree on something.
That, by the way, is not just MY standard.

On paper you are logically correct, but practically flawed.

That there are irresponsible individuals who won't hesitate to risk the lives of everyone else on the road with them does not flaw my argument... it just places their superficial need for immediate gratification above the safety needs of everyone else on the road.

welch · Post by **welch** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:04 am

In most states, there are laws against not giving "full time and attention" to driving. Texting, playing a computer game, watching a movie, using a computer (there was a whiz-bang idea to project a screen onto the driver's windshield...) all sound like ways a driver would not pay attention. I've been brushed a few times by idiots in my old NJ town who thought that a stop sign meant "slow down and talk to your kids in the back seat".

I don't see it as a federal law, but states ought to clobber texting drivers.

Countertrey · Post by **Countertrey** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:44 am

I've been brushed a few times by idiots in my old NJ town who thought that a stop sign meant "slow down and talk to your kids in the back seat".

You can always spot an alum. of Bunker Hill Elementary School!

VetSkinsFan · Post by **VetSkinsFan** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:59 pm

welch wrote:In most states, there are laws against not giving "full time and attention" to driving. Texting, playing a computer game, watching a movie, using a computer (there was a whiz-bang idea to project a screen onto the driver's windshield...) all sound like ways a driver would not pay attention. I've been brushed a few times by idiots in my old NJ town who thought that a stop sign meant "slow down and talk to your kids in the back seat".

I don't see it as a federal law, but states ought to clobber texting drivers.

I heard this charge used in a few accident cases when I went to court last week.