matt777

I've noticed quite a few younger folk texting while driving - while the car is moving and not just at the lights It has been obvious as the cars are driven slow and erratically. Is this common place now? I thought some people couldn't talk on the cell phone and drive but this has got to take the cake.

Edgy01

We are still seeing some of this despite a silly law about "hands-free" cell phone usage in California effective 1 July. I can't imagine anyone can pull that off.

dcdude

That's hands to the ear free (symptom). No one said anything about hands to hands (disease). It's prolific here, the younger the worse. Saw a girl texting and smoking the other day. Ahh...Hollywood!

davesnothere

A buddy of mine got rear-ended in bumper to bumper traffic about a year ago by a girl who was too busy texting to pay enough attention. Luckily the speeds were very low and no damage to his car.

Nice guy that my buddy is (too nice sometimes), he was trying to let the girl back into traffic after they had checked everything out. Of course, the girl missed her opportunity as she was STILL looking down at her phone!

I can only imagine the text: "omg i just hit smbdy lol"

Yet another reason why we can't have autobahns.

- Dave

friar93

check this out.....how senseless is this

http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...xting_da_says/

Theres also a guy in MA that hit and run killed a guy while texting. his buddy -rightly- blew the whistle and admitted the guys was texting him after he left the party at like 2 am.

95 C4 993

Im all for hands free and no texting while driving laws. I rarely text and prefer to just talk.

jdistefa

Want to talk/text on a cellphone? Pull over.

Want to drive? Drive.

Simple .

mr_bock

Around the DC area I see the oblivious talkers, texting, and reading!!! Ding bats with books, newspapers, etc... and going slow, erratic and all. Where do these 'people' come from???? What morons.

Quadcammer

well to be fair, there are plenty of people that don't drive so well while eating, drinking coffee, reprimanding their kids, looking at a map, reading a paper, putting on makeup, etc.

Texting while driving is dangerous. So is all of the above. Im sure some of you are guilty of that as well.

Full disclosure- I have sent text messages while driving, but only if absolutely necessary.

2Many Cars

I'm not sure the law is silly but I have yet to see much enforcement. I do love the fact I can tell my teenage daughter to leave her phone in the glove compartment when she drives (the new CA law prohibits ANY use of a phone/texting device for under 18 drivers - including hands free). I also have to agree with Quadcammer, if we had tougher licensing laws we'd have better drivers. Given the differences in licensing requirements it's probably fair to say that the Germans are the only ones who deserve to have an autobahn.

Chuck A.

Nothing surprises me any more. A few years ago I saw a guy playing the guitar while driving on the highway. I saw it out of the corner of my eye and slowed down to confirm what I saw. The guy just looked at me and kept playing.

I shook my head in disbelief and continued on my way.

boulderbobo

The day b4 yesterday I saw a guy reading a paperback book in stop and go commuting traffic in Denver on I25. I was on my motorcycle and came up next to him and pounded on his window.....it did not phase him....he kept right on reading...ugh!

Wachuko

I saw the same thing here in Orlando, FL on I4

Not to worry... cars will soon come out with internet access as well... So you will have people that are reading, eating, smoking, texting, on the phone, and surfing the net while they are at the drivers seat....

<Sent from my blackberry>

CADguy

+1

on: I see so much crappy driving here in Colorado, and I can see that alot of it is due to cell phones.

If I ever get hit by someone that wasn't paying attention cause of cell phone use, I'll probably go nuts

off:

Edgy01

Unfortunately, this issue is even happening in the strict highways of Germany. One day when I was near the Stuttgart airport in my 997S I saw a woman on her cell phone while in a cloverleaf, starting to accelerate onto the autobahn. In Germany, it is fully against the law to be on the cell phone while driving. Period. If you want to talk you pull over into one of many rest stops around. It's amazing to see that even in Germany this stuff is getting out of control.

Today I called a cab company (here in Calif) because I watched their cab driver talking on a phone while holding it up to his ear...and driving. I complained. No one out here cares less about this,--unless THEY are affected.