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

Wow. My apologies to the Libertarians, but that sounds like a terrible idea.

 

I don't think I understand technology enough to see a practical point to an app. Could someone with more tech savvy explain, because here's my thought process:

For the app to work, the driver has to activate it. What stops the driver from turning the app off while driving? How does the app know the car is even moving? Plug it in to charge and then wouldn't the car need some kind of software to override the phone? What keeps someone from unplugging it? Can a phone have a sensor to realize it's moving faster than 15 mph? How does the phone know it's in a car and not on a train or a bus?

I'm not sure the app idea is even practical. Interlock devices with breathalyzers make sense. I'm not sure what can be done about phones. Society may have to just rely on appealing to people's better judgment to not do something.

 

That's because it is a terrible idea.

 

My Waze app locks and won't let me put an address in if my car is moving. But I just hit "passenger" and keep typing.

 

Sure, until his drunk ass smashes into you and kills you, he sees no problem with it.

 

I have VERY strong objections to the definitions of "drunk driving"

.08 or .1 should not be the level of what constitutes drunk driving.

.08 is basically an excuse for municipalities to line their pockets with idiotic tickets and an excuse to set up asinine and frankly unconstitutional "DUI Checkpoints"

You want to tell me the BAC level at .13 or .14 is where you become legally drunk, I would have a much easier time buying drunk driving laws

 

Regardless of any research that proves that people are impaired at .08 or .10?

 

All that research is bullshit straight from the whiny don't-want-people-killed lobby.

 

Those assholes, always pissing in our cheerios. Next they'll want to make THAT illegal!!

If pissing in your cheerios is outlawed, only outlaws will piss in your cheerios!

Freedom, and stuff!!

 

oh ok so you are against all those nasty things, but you are against laws designed as disincentives for fuckers to do them??

okey dokey

 

If you have two beers and you aren't a total fat ass you are at .08, so yes, that level is way too low regardless of what those studies suggest.