Comments on: Texting-While-Driving Bans Increase Crashes, Study Says; Rumpus Erupts

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By: NoCell

NoCell — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:45:23 +0000

If you are driving, then drive. Don’t eat, don’t use your cell phone, don’t play with your GPS, put on your makeup, read the paper….DRIVE. Pay attention. Things happen in a split second.

We have way to many gadgets in our cars these days! I am really tired of dealing with distracted drivers. I can’t tell you how many accidents I’ve avoided because I was paying attention and the other idiot was on their cell phone. It should be illegal to use a cell phone at all when you’re driving.

By: 57 Chevy

57 Chevy — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:11:55 +0000

@erik wood;
Wow, you have a heavy car. Please don’t text while driving it.

By: Erik Wood

Erik Wood — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:19:14 +0000

Business people need to ‘hit the ball over the net’. Teens consider it rude not to reply immediately to texts. Home schedules would grind to a halt without immediate communication. We are conditioned to pursue this level of efficiency but we are all supposed cease this behavior once we sit in our respective 5,000 pound pieces of steel and glass. Anyone can win an argument in a forum like this by saying “Just put the phone away” – but we can see its just not happening.

I just read that 72% of teens text daily – many text more 3000 times a month. New college students no longer have email addresses! They use texting and Facebook – even with their professors. This text and drive issue is in its infancy and its not going away.

I decided to do something about it after my three year old daughter was nearly run down right in front of me by a texting driver . Instead of a shackle that locks down phones and alienates the user (especially teens) I built a tool called OTTER that is a simple app for smartphones. I think if we can empower the individual then change will come to our highways now and not just our laws.

Erik Wood, owner
OTTER LLC
OTTER app

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:21:28 +0000

Re:

‘…you can’t legislate against “distraction,”…’.

This is incorrect. You can legislate against distraction, and it has been done. In Ontario they just did such a thing. I just finished reading about it in “Is that smart phone app legal on the road?”, by Jennifer Kavur, ComputerWorld Canada, Sept. 7, 2010.

That law prohibits activities that diverts your hands or eyes, except for the briefest of intervals. That includes texting, laptops, movies and many modes of cell use. The standard is that any activity that requires just 1 button press to activate is legal. More than that is illegal.

Furthermore similar legislation exists in all but 2 provinces.

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:56:31 +0000

@1: There’s a huge difference between a minor crime of negligence (like texting while driving) and an intentionally harmful act. Much like the drug prohibition, if a behavioral law causes more harm than good, it should cease to exist.

And “that logic” is irrelevant simply because there’s no evidence of such a reality with armed robbery. If it turned out that a new law against it actually resulted in an increase in armed robbery, it would most definitely be time to appraise and adjust it.

By: Bob Collins

Bob Collins — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:06:57 +0000

Are there laws against questioning assumptions wrapped in the rhetorc of research?

http://tinyurl.com/2epv6b8

Couldn’t someone please notice that the study is full of words like “may” but the quotes from the officials who did the study have declarative phrases like “don’t”?

This is a really lame study. It may have reached the correct conclusion, but holy smokes, that methodology!

By: Rhacodactylus

Rhacodactylus — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:25:37 +0000

I’m not sure I agree with the logic of some people that “if people are going to be more dangerous trying to get around the law, we should probably not have the law,” that I’ve seen on some reports of this survey.

By that logic, there should be no punishment for armed robbery because punishments lead to murders in attempts to not leave witnesses.

~Rhaco