There ought to be a law.
I get the distinct impression that the author doesn’t think teenagers are very responsible.
DUH! Award of the day goes to the author...
Wow...another hard hitting article plucked from the ‘Water is Wet’ file...
That people spent time and money on something so stupidly obvious is incredible.
Sometimes I see a carload of youngsters grab@$$ing in a car, while the boom of the bass in their sound system rattles the fillings in my teeth. It is hard to decide whether to curse them or whisper a prayer that they survive the ride.
This is why my son’s first vehicle was a pickup truck.
“horseplay”? I haven’t heard that term for awhile. Is the author in his 90’s?
And in other news, researchers have determined that water is wet and fire is hot...
Gees it has been the same since I was a teen in the ‘60s! We were crazy!
My goodness.... how much money did this cost to find the obvious???
When driving, TV and movie characters seem to keep their everywhere except on the road. Granted, they are being towed, rather than actually driving, but it sets a really bad example for impressionable viewers, which appears to be a lot of actual drivers.
Drunk and stoned.
You didn't even get in much trouble if you got caught, but it would screw up your weekend.
I'm so glad nobody got hurt.
I support laws that put scrutiny on these young drivers. My friends and I are lucky to be alive.
As the parent of several loud teenagers, I can conclusively say they are a huge distraction for me as well.
***but loud conversations and horseplay between passengers appear more likely to result in a dangerous incident,***
No s#!t Sherlock! And how much taxpayer’s money did it take to come to this conclusion that everyone has known for the last 90 years?
It’s hard to believe that as a teen in Houston, I used to hang my six pack of beer off my outside mirror to keep it cooler, as I drove all over the city.
I think back to the activities of crawling from one car to another on the freeway, or changing front and back seats over the roof at 75 mph, or the blindfolded driver taking directions from the passenger, or two of us hooking arms on the roof and inside the windows, and the driving seeing if he could lose us, that was done both on city streets and the freeway. Constantly towing our broken down teenager cars with chains and drinking beer while doing it, the list goes on and on.
I would never had made it with today’s laws.
It used to be reaching out the window of a slow moving car and whacking a mailbox with a bat that was distracting to us.
Or, I mean, my friends....
Today, I'm here to tell you that in another twenty years, teenage drivers will be involved in fatal car crashes because they were masturbating with their pants down to streaming 3D video pornography projected on the inside of the windshield while the automatic driverless-car they were riding in inadvertantly drove over a cliff or smack-dab through a residential home, ejecting the body of the pants-less masturbator from the vehicle.
It'll happen with enough frequency that President Chelsea Clinton will sign an executive order to spend 120,000,000 Yuan on a national campaign to curtail driving while masturbating. Anyone our age giggling at the absurdity of it all will be regarded as an 'anti-Unisexist' prude.
Laugh now, believe me later.
we had to drive to school 5 miles every day in rain and snow, with no power steering, no air conditioning and only AM radio with one speaker. And we liked it.
Why I'd have a Salem in one hand and a RC Cola in the other with Led Zep blasting out of the dash and four other guys yelling out the windows at the dolts who rode the bus..... we did hit that one house but it weren't our fault