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I drive on the freeway every day... and every day there is some car in the "fast lane" going 60 mph. Every fricking day. Today i pulled around one, two people looking at a cell phone, not 5 minutes later there is a car going about 50. Yup, texting on his cell phone. Every day, all the time. Is there something a citizen can do (short of throwing a brick through their windows)?
The CHP doesn't have enough cars around to help.
Rant off.

CaliRN

My truck texts for me via voice control. People doing it manually just can't afford the proper equipment. So, you just need to get a law to eliminate the poor. The democratic way would be to require automated in dash texting as safety equipment.

The only alternative would be to live and let live in a free country. To hell with that.

Don't believe it's economic. I too commute daily and there's nothing that can't wait till I get to work or home. Most phones can voice text. Selfish bastards.

Get a trunk monkey...

Has nothing to do with phones and texting it has to do with being a self-centered POS.



Dave

Spot on like usual, Clark.

I agree, it is not an economical issue. It is an issue of people with their heads up their asses refusing to do what is safe on the freeway.

Driving and texting is safe.

Driving 60 or 50 in the left lane isn't.



Dave

God bless America.



Clark

For months I ran the engineering team in Calgary for our oil sands project whilst commuting between Calgary and Ft. Saskatchewan with nary an issue. Red Deer could get hairy in the winter so caution was required.

But . But . But thats illegal in cali.
Call the chp maybe they can hide out and catch them, probably give them a seatbelt ticket for good measure. Have to pry them away from whater part of town they are in giving kids tickets for not having a helmet on while riding a bicycle or writing fix it tickets for not having your headlights at the right height. However they wont impound a car from an illegal driving with no license or insurance thats perfectly fine.

I’m pretty sure he missed the part about how more gun control would be sure to help.

I passed a mamaw in the left lane this morning going to work. She was doing like 50 in the fast lane and when i passed her she was texting. I wish it was legal to put them in the wall, would buy a 1973 impala and go to town on these dumbfu ks...

texting and driving is stupid, irresponsible, and impossible to stop. As Ron White said, "You can't fix stupid".
Pass all the laws you want, but all the cops can do is pluck the low hanging, or unlucky, fruit. The other 99% of those 'breaking the law", will go about their lives unscathed.

Cell phones were invented as just another way to dumb-down the masses & the dumbasses fell for it.


Mike

I can text and drive just fine.



Dave

Yup. The phone is obviously the smarter half.

In the last couple of years I've seen several rear-end collisions on the highway here within a couple of miles of where it intersects with our road. People driving along with their heads right up their azzes in a cell phone crashing into the back end of someone stopped to make a turn. It's like an epidemic. It's against the law to text and drive here but it's ignored....constantly seeing people weaving around on the road, you know what's going on.

Same thing the fuggin drunk said "I can drive just fine"


Mike

I used to be able to with the old phones that used telephone keypad layout. I didn't have to look at what I was typing. (A couple friends DID get strange messages. :)) I won't try it with a smart phone with a "regular" typewriter type pad.

If we really want to stop the texting then the laws against it, which we already have, need real teeth even on the first offense. No negotiation, 6 months loss of phone service and 6 month suspension of the driver's license. Mandatory minimum, no room for the judge to show pity. [bleep] pity.

Tom