texting while driving

I NEVER do.

I think it is very close in severity with DWI.

Personally I feel if someone is caught driving intoxicated, even the FIRST time, they should lose their license for at least 6 months to a year, and if caught a second time should lose it permanently.

I think a person caught texting while driving (and it would have to be PROVED (cops DO lie – and might say for example, that you were texting just because a phone was in your hand) – but if proven, the fine, even for the FIRST time should be HUGE, like $350 to $500.

I think THAT would make most people think before doing it again.

Children don’t drive.

it is extremely dangerous and has killed many people. one word can ruin ur life forever. do u text whikle driving or let ur children??

This message itself looks like a text.

Its assur for one to say Lashon Horah about themselves!

i put my phone away in my bag while driving and only take it out when i am where i need to be or pulled over. its very very dangerous!

worst thing i saw was someone texting in middile of the big snowstorm here in NYC i was so upset!

I do text while driving.

Despite that it is per se negligent. I actually stopped briefly when I realized that, but then remembered that I also speed.

what a great point!!!, chas vshalom you should have to make that point in court because of the consequences of your important text while driving!

Chayav: In ‘Der Heim’ they didn’t have texting (nor cars)

All kidding aside, I think it’s as much or worse the being intoxicated. Eyes and mind are both distracted. Talking at least have eyes on the road.

I do text while driving.

Despite that it is per se negligent. I actually stopped briefly when I realized that, but then remembered that I also speed.

I don’t think popa_bar_abba was concentrating when he posted this. He was probably posting from his mobile device. While driving.

The oilum is not chaping the amkus of popas post. I dont think popa actually texts while driving, I think he was just trying to point out that why is everyone making such a big deal about the danger of texting while driving, just stick to no speeding that is also very dangerous, and I’m sure not everyone that doesnt text also doesnt speed!

another study said thaat someone texting while driving has the reflexes of a 65 year old. So. . .

There are a few youtube videos of horrific accidents by texters while driving-i am terrified when i ride with someone who has their hands off the wheel, they just don’t see how their coordination is off – yes speeding is dangerous, and skipping stop signs is terrible – everybody knows that – texting is a newer danger, and we have to SCREAM about it. MADD started alerting people to drunk driving, and now we have to protest against texters while driving -maybe even texters while walking.

I’m not vouching for the accuracy, but I found this:

http://www.articlebliss.com/Art/392666/80/Why-Texting-While-Driving-Is-Worse-Than-DWI.html

Why Texting While Driving Is Worse Than DWI

By : Jay Jacobson

Car and Driver performed research that considered a drivers distance and response time to come to a stop travelling at 70MPH. The study revealed that it took the drunk driver four feet further to come to a stop compared to the sober driver. The shocking part of the study came when they examined texting while driving. It took the one that was texting while driving 70 feet to stop in comparison to the sober driver.

Texting while driving removes 3 important things required for safe driving:

1) You Hands

2) Your Eyes and,

3) Your Concentration

A driver who’s texting makes use of his hands, eyes, and concentration to text. This places them as well as everyone else around them at risk and what makes texting while driving more dangerous than an intoxicated driver.

Let’s undertake this line of thought a step further. There’s 800,000 people at any given moment who are distracted by means of texting and driving. Dangerous driving conditions in our day are at a whole new level. With 800,000 texting you can be fairly certain that there may be someone close to you who is distracted by texting.

The statistics demonstrate that driver associated accidents and fatilities are up due to the lethal grouping of texting and driving. Join us in making an individual pledge in saying “NO” to texting while driving.

Thank you RB.

I did mean to make that point.

But, I really did go through the thought process I describe.

I used to text and speed, and talk on the phone, and roll stop signs. One day, I heard about the law of per se negligence, and realized that I should not text, since the legislature had clearly decided that it was negligent. But then I remembered that I also speed, which showed me that I do not recognize the legislature’s definition of negligence. So I took out my phone and texted.

If you see some guy in a green civic with a SHMUZ magnet texting away at the wheel while speeding and rolling stop signs, it is me. Better get out of the way, because I can’t see you.

I’m sorry if this makes anyone upset. But really, you are going to get mad at me? Do you get mad at all your friends if you see them talking on the phone or speeding? (when you are not in the car.)

Bumper sticker:

IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE WAY I DRIVE GET OFF THE SIDEWALK

SAC. Im not sure if “death by reckless driving” is a legal term 🙂

But yes, someone is dead because she was distracted by texting while behind the wheel of a car, and in her case she was at a red light.

apy

Legal term or not, thats the charge.

Popa

Are you going to tell that whole shpiel to the family of the person you kill?

I’m not 100% sure on this but, I think the reason that she was charged w Reckless Driving and not Negligent Homicide (as you are want to say) is because texting is a lesser offence than driving while intoxicated. Had she been drunk or under the influence of drugs she most probably would have been charged with the higher count of Negligent Homicide.

Popa Bar Abba,

Thanks for your post. Until you chimed in, it seemed that this would be one of the few times everyone agreed. Then you got everyone except real-brisker to believe that you condone texting while driving, and made this a little more controversial. Good job.

on a residential street at 4:50AM

Don’t you value your sleep?

Popa, you shouldn’t text while drive, not only because of the statue

i dont understand. is there a certain statue near where popa lives that is particularly prone to being run into by a distracted driver?

popa_bar_abba- I realize you are kidding when you posted -“I text and I speed”. I usually enjoy your humorous posts, but here you see a lot believed your post. Even though those posters got angry at you and wouldn’t copy such behavior, don’t forget this is a public forum- a teenager or even an adult looking for an excuse for their bad behavior, could easily say “Ya-know, what I do isn’t so bad, look others do it also.”!

Who wasn’t sleeping?

The cop.

And he probably woke you up also.

Ok. I have no idea. I just pulled up the homicide code and copied everything from the lowest level to just before second degree murder.

If I had to guess, it would have to go into a vehicular manslaughter one, but I don’t know how those work.