Texting and driving documentary: "From One Second to the Next"

I have plenty of argument. There are a lot of things that can distract while driving. But you and the media are fixated on one. Why haven't billboards -- the sole purpose of which is to be seen and read by drivers -- been banned?

 

Because they don't cause accidents?

 

Neither does texting.

However, irresponsible drivers do get into accidents because they stop watching the road to text. Just like irresponsible drivers get into accidents because of multitudes of other distractions that take their attention from where it should be.

And you know what? Every state in America has a law against inattentive driving. Imagine that.

 

tony, I don't know what it is about you when you get into this mood, but you're just intentionally ignoring facts. You're being willfully stupid. That's it. All there is to it.

Your refusal to believe that texting and driving causes accidents does not change the fact. It merely means you need to be dismissed from any conversation about it. This stuff about all the other ways of distraction -- they do not cause the rash of accidents that texting does, both because they are not as dangerous and because they are not as prevalent.

I don't know if you really are this dumb or you're just making the special effort on this issue, but you sound like a fucking idiot.

 

No. The difference is I'm putting the responsibility where it belongs -- on the driver.

 

Oh Christ, this really is a "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument. Never mind. You are that dumb.

 

Why do you have to get personal? There are a million things that can cause accidents when they cause the driver to take attention away from driving. You want to ban one of them. Why don't you want to ban all of them? You must hate safety.

 

You must hate science, statistics and facts. Your analogies are just terrible and don't hold up. How many accidents would you say billboards have caused in the last, oh, 50 years?

Really, you're just willfully ignoring the basics. It's just not even in dispute.

 

No. You're ignoring the basics. Inattentive drivers cause accidents. What causes their inattention doesn't really matter. Every accident -- with the exceptions of those caused by mechanical or equipment failure -- comes down to a driver.

 

Let's put it this way: In the case of drunk driving you blame the driver, not the bottle of booze. Why in the case of texting while driving do you instead blame the texting and not the driver?

 

Do you even know what the hell you're arguing about anymore?

You are taking a behavior that is proven to be as dangerous as drunk driving and equating it to changing the radio station or looking at a billboard.

I'm going to stop. I'm pretty confident anyone with an ounce of sense on this understands. That rules out you and zag and a couple others, but I can live with that.

 

But.... but .... but... Freedum and stuff.