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post #161 of 170
8/20/12 at 2:25am
In California, I get sick of drivers from all ages driving like they are drunk, only to see them focused on their phones. I don't text when I am driving because I've had an accident once while doing so. If a text is important, I will pull over.
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post #162 of 170
8/20/12 at 5:50am
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I agree with you and that's why I'm not a "nanny state" law fan. No matter what you do, people are going to find a way to endanger themselves and others. You can only "engineer, educate and enforce." the best you can. The rest is personal responsibility; a somewhat dying concept these days.

So if there is an app available that prevents teens from using thier phone while driving it automatically becomes law? I missed the memo.
If such a thing was available I would make my teen use it for a number of reasons, the main one being his/her butt will not be the one paying the bills and mourning thier son/ duaghter when the die making a text while driving.
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What if you run into an emergency? What if an emergency happens and someone is trying to get to you?

What did people do before there were cell phones? I'm pretty sure they just didn't leave you in your car to die...
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8/20/12 at 6:01am
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So if there is an app available that prevents teens from using thier phone while driving it automatically becomes law? I missed the memo.
If such a thing was available I would make my teen use it for a number of reasons, the main one being his/her butt will not be the one paying the bills and mourning thier son/ duaghter when the die making a text while driving.
What did people do before there were cell phones? I'm pretty sure they just didn't leave you in your car to die...

Yeah and why would you try to text in the first place. It is a phone as in it can make phone calls. It much faster to dial 911 or any person form your phone book then trying to text for help. Common honestly who in there right mind would try and send a text like "Help someone is trying to run me of the road" rolleyes.gif
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post #164 of 170
8/20/12 at 9:45am
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Yeah and why would you try to text in the first place. It is a phone as in it can make phone calls. It much faster to dial 911 or any person form your phone book then trying to text for help. Common honestly who in there right mind would try and send a text like "Help someone is trying to run me of the road" rolleyes.gif

That actually would be a great advertisement against texting while driving.

Start with that urban legend where someone passes with headlights off at night, and the driver (female) flashes her lights to let them know, and then they turn around and start chasing her and ramming from behind.

Then she is scared and starts trying to text for help and runs herself off a cliff.

"Help! someone is trying to run me off the r"

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post #165 of 170
8/20/12 at 10:20am
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Thats Like, So Totally Wrong. Like, Oh My God, I Should Be Able To Do What I Want!
- Typical annoying teen girl driver response.

Really? A "Typical annoying teen girl driver"?

Sounds to me like the mentality of most of America on matters like this.
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8/20/12 at 10:32am
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Really? A "Typical annoying teen girl driver"?
Sounds to me like the mentality of most of America on matters like this.

i've been having more problems with teenage boys texting lately than girls. sitting at green lights, swerving, etc.

as a side story:

my little sister's friend died while texting. all her friends were very upset, they all have stickers on their cars commemorating her, there was even talk of tattoos.

they all still text while they drive.
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It's weird

People can't live with a smart phones and texting

I don't get what the important thing is. A text isn't worth risking your and someone else's life
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8/20/12 at 11:07am
Maybe they should only let smart people have smart phones and dumb people could have stupid phones with no texting . biggrin.gif
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8/20/12 at 11:23am
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Maybe they should only let smart people have smart phones and dumb people could have stupid phones with no texting . biggrin.gif

I challenge you to find a mobile phone that is retarded enough not to have SMS tongue.gif And thous 80's brick phones don't count as they would not work with current networks anyway rolleyes.gif
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8/20/12 at 11:23am
I've seen firsthand too many accidents with one person with a phone up to his/ her ear.

The last one was two teenage girls in a small Toyota in the lane to my right, and as we approached a RED light, the girls car, with the driver on her phone, never slowed down and drove right into the intersection and got T-boned by a Nissan Altima. Both girls were unhurt, however the older couple in the Maxima had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.

The funny part is that I and others talked to the police officer on the scene as many people got out of their cars to assist. It was news to the officer that the girl was on the phone. She swore her brakes had failed when she talked to the officer....
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