Obama Bans Federal Employees from Texting and Driving
Easy Conclusion
Anyhow, i disagree with the movement.
If ANYTHING, truck drivers ought to be the ones who CAN use their phones on the road. Those guys are professional drivers and by and large are extremely safe. It's the rest of the morons on the road that need to hang up and drive.
This is the equivalent of telling a QB that he cant have a microphone in his helmet to talk to the coach because he needs to focus on the game. Where's the sense in that?
Azeron said:
Guy plows into another vehicle while texting... It couldn't be that this guy is just an idiot and nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand persons would not be so foolish as to dare text and drive. The other 999 should be punished because this guy lacked judgment. Right? This is just sick.
I agree with this statement. I don't think its realy the cell phones that are the problem its the idiots that don't use there head when using them. They should ban stupid people from driving but they can't. I see people all the time doing stupid stuff while driving cell phones is only a small part of the larger problem.
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Azeron said:
Guy plows into another vehicle while drinking and driving... It couldn't be that this guy is just an idiot and nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand persons would not be so foolish as to dare drink and drive. The other 999 should be punished because this guy lacked judgment. Right? This is just sick.
How about now? Still feel the same way?
I would have to observe that alcohol/drug use places the user in a persistent state of altered consciousness- whereas texting, eating a burger or applying makeup do not cause a "general failure" of the nervous system. It's not quite apples to apples, but I can see your point.
Distracted driving is a huge problem, the causes are irrelevant. As a society we need to do something about it, and we can't simply allow all behaviors simply because we can't restrict "all" unsafe behaviors.
A good friend of mine ;lost his father in an auto-pedestrian crash because the driver leaned over to pick up a CD to put in the player.
Doe this mean that car stereos need to be...
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