According to a poll of 4,800 people released by Dave Grannon of Vlingo (a mobile voice applications development company) about 26 percent admit to having "texted" on their mobile phones while driving.
I respectfully request that those 26% please raise their hands right now, with their driver's licenses in their hands so that your privilege to drive a vehicle can be revoked.
A car, like any other conveyance and especially when driven in traffic, can become a high-speed 3,000 pound missile. The act of driving requires a knowledge of the rules of the road and constant vigilance in order to drive safely. It literally takes only a few seconds of distraction to produce disastrous results whose measure is lives lost, permanent injuries and the cost to repair broken people and cars.
America, if you won't stop this mad practice for the sake of your fellow drivers, then consider doing it for the far more selfish reason of potentially saving your own neck.
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1 comment:
Interesting that you post this today. The "no texting while driving" recently (Monday) went into affect here in Utah. One of the big debates is how to enforce this (do officers have the right to pull over somone they suspect of texting, is it a secondary offence like not wearing a seatbelt, Etc.). It will be interesting to see where it goes.
-Dunkr
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