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Reader comment on: Texting While Driving Bans
Submitted by Old Fogey (United States), Sep 29, 2010 11:36
My girlfriend has a 21 year old daughter and a 23 year old son. Earlier this year, the daughter wrecked her car while texting. Her son knew all about what happened and was critical of his sister. Last Friday, the son wrecked HIS car, which he had owned for ONE DAY, when he ran into the back of another car while texting. Perhaps his trip to the hospital and his loss of his (uninsured) car will teach him that TEXTING WHILE DRIVING IS DANGEROUS!
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| Texting while driving are well intentioned however... [123 words] | Safe Texting | Dec 24, 2010 22:48 |
| As a professional driver [89 words] | Mr Evilwrench | Sep 29, 2010 17:03 |
| more harmless distraction [117 words] | equitus | Sep 29, 2010 16:02 |
| Gloves make it too hard to text while on my motorcycle... [27 words] | styrgwillidar | Sep 29, 2010 12:28 |
| ⇒ anecdotal evidence [84 words] | Old Fogey | Sep 29, 2010 11:36 |
| Where are the millions of accidents [109 words] | Tom Wade | Sep 29, 2010 11:21 |
| "better to regulate outputs than inputs" [109 words] | PieFarmer | Sep 29, 2010 05:08 |
| Really, if this isn't obvious ... [343 words] | Long Driver | Sep 29, 2010 02:49 |
| Add me to the chorus of disagreement [135 words] | Chubfuddler | Sep 28, 2010 21:22 |
| too many people cant multitask [167 words] | Fen | Sep 28, 2010 19:43 |
| Unserious [108 words] | Joel | Sep 28, 2010 18:54 |
| Followup [510 words] | Lummox JR | Sep 28, 2010 18:06 |
| Incentive not to Text while driving. [61 words] | W. Bourne | Sep 28, 2010 18:01 |
| it does not follow from the data that texting is relatively safe [115 words] | W4LT | Sep 28, 2010 18:01 |
| checking e-mail is not the same as texting [143 words] | deeb | Sep 28, 2010 16:57 |
| OBTW - Nanny State [64 words] | lhog | Sep 28, 2010 16:55 |
| More distracting [94 words] | Lhog | Sep 28, 2010 16:48 |
| Cognitive Capture [94 words] | Jeff | Sep 28, 2010 16:43 |
| Email is different. [89 words] | Dagwud | Sep 28, 2010 16:36 |
| "I don't see how . . ." I do. [98 words] | FredB | Sep 28, 2010 15:48 |
| What is being measured? NOT if texting is going down or not. [175 words] | DD | Sep 28, 2010 15:45 |
What would you do?
[w/response] [213 words] | Paul Simmons | Sep 28, 2010 15:44 |
Are you kidding?
[w/response] [353 words] | Lummox JR | Sep 28, 2010 15:40 |
| Texting IS dangerous while driving! [96 words] | chicopanther | Sep 28, 2010 15:34 |
| Prizes [53 words] | John | Sep 28, 2010 15:32 |
| At what point does Nannity become Insanity? [59 words] | Owen McCall | Sep 28, 2010 15:31 |
| Shifting sight and concentration from the road is bad, mmmkay? [72 words] | Mark A. Flacy | Sep 28, 2010 15:27 |
| Partly disagree [111 words] | Dean | Sep 28, 2010 15:25 |
| Incentives? Penalties? [36 words] | DonM | Sep 28, 2010 15:18 |
| Texting not much worse than adjusting a/c? [92 words] | Gene | Sep 28, 2010 15:17 |
| Thanks again, NYT! [135 words] | Ferd | Sep 28, 2010 15:14 |
| Disagree [81 words] | Joe Melnick | Sep 28, 2010 15:00 |
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