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I drive about sixty miles (one way) to work. EVERY DAY, some moron tries to kill me whilst texting or driving at or below the speed limit in the left lane and "formation flying" with the other moron in the right lane. In the flying business we have something called Single Frequency Approach (SFA), meaning you stay on the same radio freq when descending below 2500' AGL. There's a reason for that and aviators are a bit better trained than today's drivers. I'd make it an automatic one year/1K dollar fine for texting and driving.

Idaho Shooter: Your topic reminds me of the absolutely tragic death of the teenage honor student from Idaho that was cruising down the freeway "texting" when she hit the rear end of a semi-truck that was going the same direction as she and the semi was doing 60 M.P.H. at the time it was hit in the rear!
The resulting collision caused the death of that precious teenage girl.
Distracted driving is dangerous driving - no matter what the distraction is!
I have investigated way more than my share of fatal vehicular accidents and it sorrows me to the core to see a human life ended over such simple human errors!
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VarmintGuy

I have a Pixel phone with two front facing stereo speakers,no earbuds or bluetooth needed..The google assistant (Hey google) will send text or read them back to you without touching your phone in any way..I only use it when traveling to let our son know where we are etc..Works great without any attachments or bluetooth..

Is that the one that happened on the steep hill on I-84 just west of Hammett? If so, just a very short time before the wreck, she'd texted a friend that she really shouldn't be texting as it was dangerous.

The problem is, in a fighter, you are not in traffic and not trying to hold yourself in an 8 ft lane. If my altitude varies by a hundred feet, or my track varies by a hundred feet, I am not going to run into anyone. In a pattern where precision counts, radio traffic is absolutely limited and done with a mic button on the throttle and a headset.

Oh yippy skippy just what we need more gooberment control

I get the intention... However, you can still mess with the radio, you can still eat, read a newspaper, etc while driving... In TN here it is so bad, you cannot even touch your phone while driving or face a hefty fine... They did the laws wrong... they targeted the phones... not the distraction part...

Idaho considered a bill that would have prohibited a driver from eating or drinking. It didn't get very far.

Laws such as this have two goals. First is to make the rubes think government is out to make them safe. The second is to enhance the revenue stream.

Touche.......

Or to try and keep old [bleep] that can barely operate their vehicle or phone, let alone both at the same time, from killing a young person that hasn't yet wasted their life yet.

This chart seems to indicated that cell phone use while driving is more prevalent with young adults. I think it's from 2016. However, it is too vague on exactly what they're testing. I don't know if it indicates an accident rate or if's just the number of drivers using phones.