Texting While Driving
Did you know that texting while driving is more dangerous than drunk driving? According to a study by Car and Driver...that's what they say.
The Obama administration is bringing together individuals next month (reports call it a summit) to discuss what to do about this. Hope it's better than the beer summit he just had (which I thought was really stupid). In one study of truckers, the risk of collision was 23 times greater if texting. Dialing a cell phone or reaching for an electronic device put the risk at 6 times greater.
I hope teenaged drivers aren't doing this (they're probably the biggest group that would?). Combining new driving skills, texting, and the erroneous thinking that you're going to live forever is a bit scary to me. I wouldn't let my teenaged stepdaughter (with the new driver's permit) drive my Durango before...now that I realize texting is a major issue (and she's a huge texter), that just put her chances at driving my truck even further away.
1 comments:
When I was in high school a few years ago, I knew people who were doing all sorts of things while driving: using a laptop (not kidding!!!), messing with music player song list, horseplaying with people in the backseat, kissing, brushing hair, makeup, etc.
So I'm sure it's worse now with texting being so common.
I don't drive (vision problem and Autism; I decided I would not be a safe driver) but it can be dangerous to be walking across a street with distracted drivers!
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