Ever text while you are driving?

[jeffy]

Just a little PSA from the uk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdvFh95Yg6M

I'm betting Thin Blue Line has seen the results of something similar.

[Pett]

Yep, I try to hold it up by my steering wheel so I can see what I am texting & where I am driving.

[Thin Blue Line]

Just a little PSA from the uk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdvFh95Yg6M

I'm betting Thin Blue Line has seen the results of something similar.

Yes, Jeffy, I have. That was incredibly hard to watch. I've seen friends, and people I've known forever, die in car crashes of that sort. It was hard the first time, and never gets any easier. It's especially hard when you're the first one there, you know it's too late to do anything for them, and then have to go tell their family. Wow, this is hard to type.

[Saulbadguy]

Do you eat while you are driving? How about fiddle with the radio? 

[Pike]

My dad sent me an email saying "Don't text and drive. ku was on the news for swine flu. Watch this video"

I was like wtf 

[Thin Blue Line]

Do you eat while you are driving? How about fiddle with the radio? 

How about pursuing someone at 110+, talk on the radio, change siren tones, keep eyes out for deer (other vehicles), etc?

[jeffy]

Do you eat while you are driving? How about fiddle with the radio? 

While I don't make a habit of it, I can do both of those things without looking away from the road.  Studies show that texting is much more dangerous than any of the stuff you mention, also including talking on the phone.

[Saulbadguy]

Do you eat while you are driving? How about fiddle with the radio? 

While I don't make a habit of it, I can do both of those things without looking away from the road.  Studies show that texting is much more dangerous than any of the stuff you mention, also including talking on the phone.

Back when I had a phone with buttons (instead of a touch screen keypad) I could text without looking at my phone.

Didn't do it though, never felt the need to text while driving.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Looks like the biggest problem was she was driving on the left side of the road.  Stupid Britons.

[ksu_FAN]

What about posting while driving?  (Like this one.)

[michigancat]

jeffy's like an annoying dad.

[Dirty Sanchez]

jeffy's like an annoying dad.

Its a bitch having a little brat like you in the family.

[Saulbadguy]

jeffy's like an annoying dad.

helps me w/ geology homework. 

[PCR]

I've tried it, but only when I was incredibly drunk. 

[cas]

Read in a car and driver that it is actually more dangerous to be intoxicated than to be sober while texting.

[Thin Blue Line]

Read in a car and driver that it is actually more dangerous to be intoxicated than to be sober while texting.

Testing has showed it's the other way around, cas. The reaction time is slower while texting. Unless, that is, you would happen to be absolutely blasted.

[jeffy]

jeffy's like an annoying dad.

helps me w/ geology homework. 

Next time you are out past curfew, you are grounded.

[Thin Blue Line]

jeffy's like an annoying dad.

helps me w/ geology homework. 

Next time you are out past curfew, you are grounded.

That /\

[cas]

Read in a car and driver that it is actually more dangerous to be intoxicated than to be sober while texting.

Testing has showed it's the other way around, cas. The reaction time is slower while texting. Unless, that is, you would happen to be absolutely blasted.

Yeah that's actually what I meant to say.

[dmartin]

last time I tried to text while driving I spilled my Gin and Tonic.  no more texting for me.