Texting ban in Florida..maybe

[Peebo]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/technology/article192284834.html

I have lost count of the number of times I’ve waited for some idiot in front of me sitting at the traffic lights that have changed to green while they’re lost in their dream world texting…then when you toot your horn they get all upset and give the bird…I don’t know why Florida is always one of the last states to use common sense road laws…maybe politicians get to much sun on the brain…it’s only a few years ago they made wearing seat belts a first offense…not that it seems to matter with the number of fatalities where the occupant(s) wasn’t wearing a seatbelt

 

[Xanthippe_Voorhees]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/technology/article192284834.html

I have lost count of the number of times I’ve waited for some idiot in front of me sitting at the traffic lights that have changed to green while they’re lost in their dream world texting…then when you toot your horn they get all upset and give the bird…I don’t know why Florida is always one of the last states to use common sense road laws…maybe politicians get to much sun on the brain…it’s only a few years ago they made wearing seat belts a first offense…not that it seems to matter with the number of fatalities where the occupant(s) wasn’t wearing a seatbelt

Other states have already done this.

I don’t find it helps that much.

Flordia is a totally horrendous place to drive. I wouldn’t blame texting…

 

[Inisfallen]

Texting is banned here in New York, too (or at least in New York City, where I live). People seem to do it all the time anyway.

Obviously the traffic cops can’t be everywhere. I avidly support the idea of pulling over and ticketing anyone who is texting while driving (or talking on a handset, or dialing a phone), and maybe even suspending licenses for a while, but people really, really should have more common sense.

Someone texting, or even just reading a text, is taking not only their own life, but the lives of their passengers and other drivers, just about everyone on the road, in their hands.

 

[exnihilo]

It is illegal in my state. But you’d have to be an idiot to get charged. It isn’t illegal to use your phone for navigation or other purposes. So how would a cop ever know you were texting and not using it legally? He’d only know if you confessed. Also, I notice police frequently driving erratically while using a cell phone. That doesn’t surprise me but I’d not be happy with a sanctimonious lecture if I was pulled over for texting.

I don’t think people should generally be texting while driving, but there are plenty of other ways to be irresponsible while driving.