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The U.S. government on Tuesday banned hand-held "texting" by drivers of large commercial trucks and buses to avoid the danger of distracted driving.
Nearly two dozen U.S. states ban "texting" while driving for all motor vehicles and others are considering similar action. Legislation has also been introduced in Congress to prohibit the practice.Many U.S. companies also ban "texting" by their employees while driving on the job.
I do agree the lot should be banned - save people from their own stupidity.
People will continue texting regardless
If I had 80,000 pounds of honkin steel behind me and the driver was Texting? If you know me, you won't want to be in the car with me if I see that happening. I'll stop right there, get out and hope that he doesn't have a weapon. Even so, I'm going to taunt the schmuck and make a spectacle of the situation.
Have any of you seen the Texting While Driving PSA? It WILL make you cry, I don't care how cold your heart may be. Search YouTube for Texting While Driving PSA and prepare yourself. If I had teenagers, they'd have to watch videos like this if I felt there was a need to intervene and get a message across.
Eh! Surely, texting while driving any vehicle is dangerous. I don't know why they didn't go the rest of the way.
before long responsible adults will have to wear a helmet to text-walk.
And those so called "responsible adults" will still bump into and knock down frail old ladies who are just trying to cross a street! Whereupon the "responsible adults" will no doubt be pi$$ed at the old lady for getting in their way and not paying attention.
responsible adults
Responsible adults don't text while driving. So the regulation must be directed at irresponsible adults.
I'm in the USA and I'm appalled that there's a need to TELL people not to do this. Seriously!
Responsible adults don't text while driving.
Wholeheartedly agree, but next time someone you know is talking on the cell or texting while they are driving, try telling them they are irresponsible.
The laws are for the rest of the stupid idiots, not me, I'm responsible.
(Figurative "me," I still refuse to own a cell, wife has one and when it rings, she pulls to the curb.)
...in what universe is it even remotely sane to take your eyes off the road to read/write text messages while you're actively driving a piece of machinery that can kill you and/or any number of other people in an instant?
The convergence of technology and human behavior requires a completely different solution
My opinion is that it requires a complete ban.
Get caught violating that ban and you get a healthy fine. Get caught again and you get a more healthier fine.
Get caught 3 times and it's off to the pokey with your texting butt...
That's MY different solution.
Also, does the US have any laws under which this could be illegal anyway - I am thinking of something like the British law that makes "driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place without due care and attention" an offence.
Finally, if someone doing this did cause an accident, it would be criminal negligence of some kind, right?
Really. What would that be?
Hint: UAVs
A young lady was killed on a motorway near Basingstoke a couple of years ago. A lorry driver was found to be texting while driving and didn't notice that the traffic had stopped up ahead. He hit her car and the rest is history :(
A young lady was killed on a motorway near Basingstoke a couple of years ago. A lorry driver was found to be texting while driving and didn't notice that the traffic had stopped up ahead.
That was very high profile case here in the UK and it tells you all you need to know about this. It kills!
