Agree that texting while driving is a very bad idea, but where do you draw the line and stop passing more new laws?
How tragic.
Pennsylvania is in the process of passing a law making texting while driving a primary offense, meaning a police officer can stop you for that in itself.
Good. Another law. I'm sure it will help a lot.
What a stupid law. You can't legislate common sense. Does anyone with more than two functional brain cells think that a law agaisnt texting would have made any difference? It's very sad to see a young life cut short, but there are consequences to actions, and if you're stupid enough to text while driving then you might have to pay the consequences. a number of years ago I was driving along the expressway one lane to the right of the leftmost lane. A car full of young women - teen looking - passed me and I noticed that the driver was turned around to talk to the ones in the back. About half a mile down the road she veered into the concrete divider wall and sent a fine shower of sparks and debris for the rest of us to avoid. I doubt anyone was seriously hurt, but the car was in pretty bad shape. Problem is that teens (and others too for that matter) don't know when it's time to stop talking and pay attention to what they're doing.
Agree that texting while driving is a very bad idea, but where do you draw the line and stop passing more new laws?
Pennsylvania is in the process of passing a law making texting while driving a primary offense, meaning a police officer can stop you for that in itself.
Which, given the contempt that most people have for petty laws that criminalize ordinary behavior (at least that is how it is perceived), will actually make things worse.
The primary reason why texters are a potential danger to others is that they are driving distracted. Whether it is looking for a CD, farding, swatting a misbehaving child in the backseat, or foraging around for a dropped french fry in the lap, people will ultimately drive distracted.
What will make this sin worse than it is now, is that prior to a law being passed, one could at least openly text by having the phone up and at eye level so that maybe the danger could be seen in the peripheral vision - now that will change as the head is bowed staring at the phone below window level so as not to be seen by the code enforcement agent.
The question remains, will Apple's voice activated Siri be criminalized as technically "texting".
>>Pennsylvania is in the process of passing a law making texting while driving a primary offense, meaning a police officer can stop you for that in itself<<
We don’t need a law. We need parents with a lick of common sense. Don’t give the kid a 2 ton machine that can kill them and a phone that can text.
I have an emergency phone in the car. I have all passwords on phones and computers. I monitor what they do. When they begin to drive I will tell them, no texting. If they do, I pull the car.