Holding a phone while driving should be banned in EVERY state.

I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion but I'm under the belief that if you text and drive you are doing it wrong.

You're supposed drive and text.
The emphasis should be on DRIVING not on texting. Your attention should be on the DRIVING not the text.
If your eyes are looking down for 5 seconds at a time and not towards the road you are texting and driving.
AT THE VERY LEAST your phone should be eye level so you can see out of your peripheral, similar to still being able to see the road while checking your rear view mirror or changing a radio station.

I don't see anything wrong with that if you are a good driver. I used to do it ALL the time and NEVER swerved.

Problem is alot of drivers aren't good drivers.
But even more than that, there is really no need to be typing ANYTHING when you can just hit the mic button and the phone will transcribe your entire text for you.

I really have no idea why people still text and drive when that option is available on every phone.
This is what I do now.
 
JaysRcrak said:
I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion but I'm under the belief that if you text and drive you are doing it wrong.

You're supposed drive and text.
The emphasis should be on DRIVING not on texting. Your attention should be on the DRIVING not the text.
If your eyes are looking down for 5 seconds at a time and not towards the road you are texting and driving.
AT THE VERY LEAST your phone should be eye level so you can see out of your peripheral, similar to still being able to see the road while checking your rear view mirror or changing a radio station.

I don't see anything wrong with that if you are a good driver. I used to do it ALL the time and NEVER swerved.

Problem is alot of drivers aren't good drivers.
But even more than that, there is really no need to be typing ANYTHING when you can just hit the mic button and the phone will transcribe your entire text for you.

I really have no idea why people still text and drive when that option is available on every phone.
This is what I do now.
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Thats not even the same thing. Checking your rearview is part of driving. Even changing the radio station can be done with your eyes still on the road...shoot all these newer cars even have the buttons on the steering wheel to change stations, volume etc. When youre driving your focus/attention should 100% be on the road. Sending a text isnt that important to jeopardize your life and other peoples. If it really is that important, pull over, park somewhere for a few minutes and send a text.
 
I don't think banning it state wide will be that effective. Would more people investing $$$ into self driving car development be faster than what op proposed?
 
iYen said:
I don't think banning it state wide will be that effective. Would more people investing $$$ into self driving car development be faster than what op proposed?
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Doubt it. For most middle Americans, it would be hard to afford. Although Google, Apple and Uber are creating them as service vehicles, they aren't quite there yet. Self driving cars that require technology to recognize blind spots, lane changes, highway exits, cross walks etc require way more $$$ and R&D which would need to develop faster than the legislation to make phones illegal to handle while driving. It's much easier to do the latter quicker. Also, self-driving cars are still a niche category, there will still be a large percentage of people who would still want to drive or don't trust the technology to let a computer take the wheel.
 
ahat20 said:
Thats not even the same thing. Checking your rearview is part of driving. Even changing the radio station can be done with your eyes still on the road...shoot all these newer cars even have the buttons on the steering wheel to change stations, volume etc. When youre driving your focus/attention should 100% be on the road. Sending a text isnt that important to jeopardize your life and other peoples. If it really is that important, pull over, park somewhere for a few minutes and send a text.
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i didnt say it was the same. The word I used was similar And nobody's attention is 100% on the road 100% of the time.
Everyone looks away from time to time for one reason or another.

But you must've missed the part where I said I voice text. you dont have to take your eyes off the road at all to do that so...
 
I don't think you should be allowed to have your phone on you if you're driving. I put my phone in my trunk before I get behind the wheel.
 
sooperhooper said:
I'm 100% with you op, it pisses me off seeing so many people looking down while driving.

This happened recently, a lady that I work with lost her mother due a 20 y/o texting and driving (he admitted it). His truck hit s bus of elderly people and killed everyone. The bus driver's wife died of grief a week later.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...river-texas-crash-killed-13-texting/99888684/

Whenever traffic is moving but a car is still sitting there with no one ahead of it, you already know the deal. As if traffic isn't already bad enough.

Of course people want to come in here and make arguments, but people are more enamored with a phone than anything else right now.

I use a car mount 100% of the time and if it's something I can't do in 1 second (change a song, answer a call) them I'm gonna wait or pull over if it's important.
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Wow. I remember in high school a girl texting hit my gym coach's passenger side head on and killed his daughter, who was maybe 5-7.

Dude was never the same again. He appeared as if he was living but dead inside.

Yesterday I almost got in an accident because the dude driving was looking at his phone, the person in front braked, and he literally swerved last minute.
 
Just came back from Miami

9/10 people were staring at there phones will driving not even exaggerating

Not surprised with fLorida
 
In a perfect world, participating in any phone call while driving would be banned. The conversation itself is the biggest distraction, whether you're holding a phone to your ear, using a headset or Bluetooth. But, we can't ban talking, so we do the next closest thing: ban holding a phone to your ear. Ultimately, such bans accomplish very little.

I'm on the road all day for work, and my phone is right next to me. I never answer calls on the road, and my clients know that.
 
The first link I posted isn't working, it seems. So here's another

http://heavy.com/news/2017/03/jack-...k-photos-pickup-driver-new-braunfels-victims/

I didn't know there were people following/recording him and calling the cops bc of his wreckless driving.

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This woman is so loving full of joy and it hurt me deeply to know that she, and many others, were stripped of their loved ones over something so miniscule. This is what it looks like when you don't have 'the key to texting and driving'.

Just like so many other things, people think it's 'harmless'.... Until it's not.
 
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I can't stand people that take pride in not making mistakes while texting and driving. It literally only take one time to **** up your life or some else's.
 
On a similar note, can we talk about how confusing some of these infotainment systems are these days? I had a CTS as a rental and trying to use CUE what's annoying and distracting as hell. Legit might be worse than texting and driving.

dmbrhs said:
In a perfect world, participating in any phone call while driving would be banned. The conversation itself is the biggest distraction, whether you're holding a phone to your ear, using a headset or Bluetooth. But, we can't ban talking, so we do the next closest thing: ban holding a phone to your ear. Ultimately, such bans accomplish very little.

I'm on the road all day for work, and my phone is right next to me. I never answer calls on the road, and my clients know that.
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If talking on bluetooth is distracting you that much, you probably shouldn't be allowed to have passengers in your car forreal :lol: Somebody yapping in the passenger seat is way more distracting than being on bluetooth.
 
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malikdagoat said:
On a similar note, can we talk about how confusing some of these infotainment systems are these days? I had a CTS as a rental and trying to use CUE what's annoying and distracting as hell. Legit might be worse than texting and driving.
If talking on bluetooth is distracting you that much, you probably shouldn't be allowed to have passengers in your car forreal :lol: Somebody yapping in the passenger seat is way more distracting than being on bluetooth.
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That's kind of my point. THe more people in your car, the more distracted you will be. But, we can't ban passengers or conversations, so we do the closest thing to it: ban phones. Except it ultimately accomplishes very little.
 
you have to take all distractions and eliminate the ones you can and minimize the ones you can't

it's not that hard to understand
 
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