The most dangerous thing I’ve seen was a motorcyclist (4 actually) who were doing wheelies down the highway. Not to mention all the other things.
Then theres the bikes that passed between me and the truck in the next lane. I was going 80 and the bikes had to be going 120 at least.
Point is people do stupid stuff. Govt regulation is rarely the answer.
Stupid... Suicidal behavior
But they will kill themselves
not anyone else
distracted cell phone users and drunk drivers
kill other people
Agree
This is why I'd prefer personal defense measures
were possible
In that we agree, driftdiver, and also that a whole lotta young, stupid, speedy motorcyclists are dangerous maroons. I see them and hear them all the time, as we live on a scenic/challenging backroad that has become famous in motorcycle circles. Young, arrogant, dangerous motorcyclists are easily outnumbered 100-fold by average, arrogant, dangerous folks who need only to have the desire to talk and text behind the wheel to be lethal, not to learn how to ride a motorcycle and make it their passion.
I don't know what the answer is and I'm with you in that I don't think it can be rooted very firmly in government regulation, but the insistence that hand-held talking/texting while driving is just something "we" have to accept and it's not THAT bad anyway ... is denial. It's a serious problem and will take a serious solution. Private lawbreakers with jammers may be the ultimate "solution" because when the law fails (as it already has in Ca -- people talk and text all the time) but the problem grows (as it will because of arrogant self-absorbed twits who don't know their own limitations and who think vanity talking/texting while driving is a God-given right), citizens will take matters into their own hands. You talk about "hanging" jammers; I think a lot more would rather see texters/talkers hanged. THAT would certainly solve the problem.
I recoil at government regulations, but those put forth by a state ... are that state's rights according to its citizens.