Ontario Teens Admit to Texting While Driving
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 1:10 pm
On the CBC website, there is a story about how more than one-third of teen-aged students may have texted behind the wheel of the car they were driving. This story spurred on some interested comments and I came across this right fvktard comment.
Jagger_5 wrote: I am 33 years old. I text and drive all the time. Very clearly, it is less safe to drive while texting. However, it's also less safe to change the radio station.
Regardless of what the law says, I will continue to text while driving. Having said this........I do not think it's a big deal. I only divert my attention from the road for short periods of time. I think the bigger deal is that while doing this, I have to look out for the police as well. I know this is a radical thought, but perhaps the safest course of action is to allow people to text, but teach them how to do it safely. I just blew your mind,
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(My reply which had been allowed for awhile then mysteriously banned by the 3rd party Mods)
In that case, as a 50 something motorcyclist who has already been once t-boned off his bike by a cell phone using driver running a red light, claim the right of pro-active self-defense when I come across you texting while driving, meaning I am allowed to use any and all measures, including the immediate use of potentially lethal force, to remove the clear and present threat that you, a self-centred, self-important, self-righteous, self-entitled and ignorant prat present to all road users in general and motorcyclist in particular.
Jagger_5 wrote: I am 33 years old. I text and drive all the time. Very clearly, it is less safe to drive while texting. However, it's also less safe to change the radio station.
Regardless of what the law says, I will continue to text while driving. Having said this........I do not think it's a big deal. I only divert my attention from the road for short periods of time. I think the bigger deal is that while doing this, I have to look out for the police as well. I know this is a radical thought, but perhaps the safest course of action is to allow people to text, but teach them how to do it safely. I just blew your mind,
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(My reply which had been allowed for awhile then mysteriously banned by the 3rd party Mods)
In that case, as a 50 something motorcyclist who has already been once t-boned off his bike by a cell phone using driver running a red light, claim the right of pro-active self-defense when I come across you texting while driving, meaning I am allowed to use any and all measures, including the immediate use of potentially lethal force, to remove the clear and present threat that you, a self-centred, self-important, self-righteous, self-entitled and ignorant prat present to all road users in general and motorcyclist in particular.
