Woman Distracted by Texting Drives Her Car Into a Lake

[customerserviceguy]

97. You've just gotten into a bad habit

that's all. What can you possibly text faster than you can say? Even if you are some mega-skilled typist, you have to acknowledge that the average person is way, way slower trying to find buttons with one hand when they text, and those are among the primary drivers who need this taken away from them. It's one of many cases where the majority's misuse of something ruins it for everybody else.

Also, you're right about drivers handheld cell phones, especially when they seem to need to look in the direction of the phone (what is it they expect to see??) and/or gesture with the other hand (do they expect the other party to see those gestures?)

In any case, we have Bluetooth devices that allow hands to be on the wheel and eyes on the road. It doesn't work that way with texting, ever.

How many people dead per day from texting is acceptable to you? It's nine a day now, what happens when it gets to ninety? Or nine hundred? Or nine thousand?