U.S.'s Amazing New 'Don't Text and Drive' Ad Will Leave You Shaking

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121. It's a balance between risk and reward

Right now, the "rewards" of texting are nothing that can't be accomplished by phone calls (with voicemail) or emails. The risks are depicted in the video in the OP. Do nine or ten people a day die from pillows?

You correctly point out that in most jurisdictions (I'm sure there are a couple of them that have not yet gotten around to it) that texting and driving is illegal. Yet, the very addictive nature of this thing causes a high proportion of drivers to become lawbreakers. In places like where I live, law enforcement is a joke. I routinely see drivers texting, and there's no cops pulling them over. My lady even knows a woman at work who FINALLY had to go to court on about the twelfth time a cop noticed her texting and driving. She has to be pretty hard core to have been warned that many times, the police here don't enforce much of anything.

"Punishing"? Blame the people who cannot control their obsession, rather than those of us who are trying to take away the scissors from those who run with them. And it's not about tacky or annoying, it's a health issue.

If I went back in time fifty years ago, and told the people of 1964 that we would have public spaces where smoking was not allowed, they would not have believed it, smoking was so very widespread and socially acceptable in many confined situations. Yet, when we focused on the damage that tobacco does, we were able to deal with the problem in a responsible way, no matter that it seriously inconvenienced the smokers.