Anything else they need to write a law for to legislate common sense?!
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Posted on 10/14/2009 1:13:02 PM PDT by SoonerStorm09
Anything else they need to write a law for to legislate common sense?!
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lol
How do you get that big Ham antennae on your car?
I will admit to taking a call when I'm on the road. In general, though, cell phone use while driving is bordering on an epidemic.
It's only common sense that your driving is impaired while talking on the phone, or God forbid, texting. It wasn't such a big deal 15 years ago, before cell phone usage exploded.
I'm surprised insurance companies haven't stepped in on this topic.
While I appreciate the sentiment, where do you draw the line on what laws should be on the books regarding driving and what laws step over the line?
Perhaps the police coule catch some, but given the limited resources of most law enforcement agencies, I would rather them spend their time on crime prevention than regulating traffic.
Most newer models allow the driver to change the radio from the steering wheel.
You're equating drinking a soda, an activity that requires no thought, with cell phone usage? Talk about false equivalency.
One can carry on a conversation while keeping both hands on the wheel, and paying full attention to the road.
Now, carrying on a conversation while drinking a soda...that's a horse of a different color. :^)
I'd rather not have some 20-something idiot kill me because he's busy texting while driving, thank you! It is not his perogative to shift that risk to others who have no say in the matter. If a couple of high-profile enforcement crackdowns gets these pinheads to stop, so be it.
Now compare that to texting, where the full attention of the driver goes to his cell for several seconds.
Small comfort to the person they killed or maimed.
Pretty sure that where I draw that line and where most people draw that line is quite different. It is a question of how much risk you are willing to assume versus how much you wish to transfer. I just don’t like living (and driving) a gauntlet of potential law enforcement encounters. It is so bad now that to drive the 2 miles to the local grocery store I regularly encounter 10-15 police standing in the median shining flashlights inside my car... I don’t want to live that way. I really really wish that folks would take responsibility for their own safety and leave the government and it’s guns out of it. If everybody took safety seriously then no worries. I know that not everybody does and that speaks to education levels, temperament etc. But most accidents are avoidable. I had a near one yesterday when a lady tried to pull into my lane from a side street. Because I have thought about and rehearsed in my mind what to do I avoided what for most people would have been a three car accident, because the truck behind me would have plowed into me. But because I take driving seriously I avoided a near accident. But I don’t need or demand the government to be the guarantor of my safety. I am responsible. YOU are responsible. Leave the government and it’s guns and courts out of it. Yes bad things happen to good people all the time... We are not immortal nor are we infallible. But one has to accept that premise in order for everything else to follow so it is almost a religious or at the very least a philosophical acceptance of life.
Proof, please. BTW, in a lot of states, once an elderly driver does degrade to a certain point, their license does get revoked.
So try again to make your pointless point.
Once again, it is NOT your perogative to shift that risk to someone else on the highway who does not have a vote.
Not wearing your seatbelt endangers only you. Texting and driving endangers me.
You and I will disagree. I would rather take my chances with a dunderhead than add prerogative and enforcement power to the state. Yes, bad things happen to good people and I can accept that. We are not immortals after all.
Why shouldn’t states ban texting while driving? It’s worse than DUIs (at least you’re watching the road while drunk), and you are operating a 1-2 ton killing machine—this is not an “individual” rights issue.
I don’t see them spending time on crime prevention, I see them sitting on the side of the road catching speeders with radar.
Wow, where do you live that the police do that?
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