[doug from upland]

You can’t drive drunk. You can’t drive high on drugs. Unless it is a real emergency, if you want to text, pull over or wait awhile. It’s not that difficult. You are endangering others.

The stats I have seen reveal how dangerous it is. If civil libertarians complain about this, they should complain about the govt telling us we can’t drive drunk. Or the govt requiring driving tests. Or the govt even requiring a license. Slippery slope, my ass.

[Alberta's Child]

So you're OK with the state getting access to all of your text messages just so they can see if you were texting behind the wheel?

What happens if I'm texting as a passenger in my own vehicle, and it's involved in a crash?

P.S. -- I do a lot of work in traffic safety in my profession, so I'm not dismissing the public safety issues related to texting and driving at all.

[Hugh the Scot]

"Slippery slope my ass"

Okay... So what's your opinion if a person is texting seconds before they pull into traffic and they are involved in an accident (NOT THEIR FAULT), but the sniffer reveals they've texted in the last 10 minutes? The technology assumes that anyone texting is automatically guilty or at-fault in any traffic incident.