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

Let that guy text all he wants. We need him removed from the gene pool ASAP.

Was he wearing a helmet?

 

Obviously you're so fucking narrow-sighted you won't rest until use of phones is banned. So go ahead and pass that fucking law, ace! I'm not arguing against penalizing their use at all, but you just can't let go of your new pet cause.

 

Sorry, still bullshit. I can't believe people are this fucking stupid.


ANY activity that takes your eyes off the road for any amount of time causes distracted driving. Equating any of that with drunk driving is the height of stupidity. A drunk is a drunk the entire time he's behind the wheel.

Texting, eating, talking on the phone, putting on make-up, shaving, yelling at your kids or your spouse are all actions that can be stopped when you're behind the wheel. Driving drunk is not.

Oh, and before i forget, go fuck yourself OOP.

 

A test from Car and Driver ...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/31545004

Unimpaired: .54 seconds to brake
Legally drunk: add 4 feet
Reading e-mail: add 36 feet
Sending a text: add 70 feet

And this one doesn't necessarily show the danger, only the relative impact -- but more teens die from texting and driving than from drunk driving.

http://www.inquisitr.com/657009/more-teen-deaths-from-texting-and-driving-than-dui/

Deal with facts, please.

 

Well, yeah, more kids have access to phones than to alcohol so that makes sense. Maybe we should make cellphone ownership illegal for anyone under the age of 21. Seems like a reasonable step.

So what are the facts on reaction time by teenage drivers while eating, or putting on make-up, or talking to their friends who are in the car with them?

 

Nothing close to texting. Which is why they don't cause 3,000 deaths a year. Don't really understand the lack of ability to grasp facts here.

Also would never have thought there were "sides" to whether preventing road deaths was good. Such is the nature of political discourse these days, I suppose.

 

Want to create a stigma about texting and driving? Retool the law and penalties.

You're caught texting and driving or cause an accident because you were texting: Lose your license for 5 years.

Get caught driving during those 5 years: 6 months in jail.

Get caught again during those 5 years: One year in jail, lose your license for life.

I know I'd think twice about texting that message.

 

Stiffer penalties would reduce the killing/injuring as they did in the case of drunk driving. That's the sticking point. There is a lot of work to be done on the prevention side. The family of the person killed doesn't take a whole lot of solace in the fact that the driver is going to county jail for six months and then serving 1,000 hours of community service.

Texting and driving is barely even a violation nowadays. You'd get a stiffer penalty for making an illegal right turn on red.

 

You know, I actually don't remember. My initial inclination is that he wasn't, but I'm not positive.

 

Look up what the laws and penalties were for DUIs in 1975 and now. Tell me that hasn't made a difference.

 

That isn't what we're talking about. We're talking about stiffer penalties just for getting caught -- I'd be in favor of equating it with the scale for non-accident DUI -- and even a mechanical blocker akin to the ignition lock. (App on the phone at first glance does not seem workable because it would be hard to distinguish who's the driver and who's a passenger or if you're on public transit.)

If the penalty for texting and driving were a six-month license suspension and thousands of dollars in fines and increased insurance costs, you'd sure as hell see people put down the phones.

 

You are the one pushing that comparison. It is on YOU to provide that information.

The facts demonstrate the danger of texting and driving, so that is the issue that needs to be addressed. If similar facts come out about eating or putting on make-up while driving, we'll deal with it then.