Add me to the chorus of disagreement
Reader comment on: Texting While Driving Bans
Submitted by Chubfuddler (United States), Sep 28, 2010 21:22
"I don't see how checking email while driving is much worse than fiddling with the radio or the air conditioner or talking to the person in the passenger seat or reading the roadside billboards." Seriously? How about reading your dead-tree mail while driving, reading a book or a newspaper while driving (I have seen someone doing this on the Mass Pike)?
If you're saying that the bans are not the solution to the problem, that's something we can talk about. If you're saying that there isn't a problem, there may be less to discuss.
ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/AJPH.2009.187179v1
www.monash.edu.au/muarc/reports/muarc246.pdf
www.fmcsa.dot.gov/facts-research/media/webinar-09-06-03-transcript.pdf
reviews.carreview.com/blog/texting-talking-drinking-driving-gerbils/
www.caranddriver.com/features/09q2/texting_while_driving_how_dangerous_is_it_-feature
And if studies aren't enough for you (I just pulled these quickly off the Net, I'm sure there are many more), there will always, alas, be anecdotal evidence to confirm what common sense tells us:
abcnews.go.com/Business/illinois-killer-cop-workers-comp/story
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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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