H3 TEXTING And Driving ! ! !

[LagunaH1]

Yes, we do... but you need to understand how the law works - the law punishes behavior, and (excepting DUI) the punishment is only after the harm has occurred.

What you're talking about is enforcing morality. Morality takes the stand that why is as important as what you do - problem with using morality as the law is you can't get people to stop lying about their motive. So we do the next best thing and punish the result of the behavior.

...not sure I really follow you here... ?

I'd think that texting while driving could quite well fall under (just thinking out loud) a distracted riving clause? Texting while driving is an action that's easy to prove (look at text message logs)

In my opinion, why someone texts while driving (to stick to that as one of the clearest examples of a distraction while driving) is irrelevant, it's the action of texting while driving that's important.

 

[bendyprissy]

I agree that texting & driving is ridiculous but sometimes it may look like someone is texting when they are not. Either way I guess you shouldn't be looking anywhere except the road when driving, although we are all probably guilty of that at least once or twice in our driving histories.

 

[Kyle]

are we really still talking about this? this thread should have died awhile ago. just sayin. :thumbs: