Texting while driving soon to be illegal in Fla
 

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http://www.theledger.com/article/201...1374?p=1&tc=pg

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I think we have enough laws on the books.

I'm not a fan of legislating common sense.

That said, I support this law 150%.

I wish they could/would make it a primary offense.

I don't see what text is sooo important that it needs to be sent while driving rather than waiting until one reaches their destination.

If it were that damn important, it wouldn't be a freakin' TEXT

why the fuck cant it just be a federal level law, and not a state levl thing, AND a primary offense?

I already vowed the next dipshit I saw while I was on a bike thats texting and driving, I'm yanking their phone from their hand and throwing it into traffic.

I never text while driving...I would have to put my beer down.

for me, I'd have to put my crackpipe and cigarettes down.

Apparently this never happened?

I am curious how you can prove someone read a text at a precise moment in their vehicle while traveling down the road. It probably appears exactly the same as any other distraction to the outside observer.

Easy on my droid. Youd just have to read the date/time (officer compares time he aw you txt/reading) and see if the message backgound is white or off white. If its off white that means i read it.

So does that mean its still Ok to surf the web while driving?

Only if its pron :lol:

Won't this make it worse as people will be holding their devices lower and thus taking their eyes off the road longer? Simple thing, you need to be good at multitasking, you just can't look down at certain times, and you can't look down too long.

It's really pretty simple..

I think its more about boredom than importance. When youre used to texting any time you have a free moment you get that same urge when youre "idle" in a car.

Im against laws like this.

Legislating common sense. Again.

How about reaching down for a CD or french fry that you dropped? Seems to me that is more dangerous than texting.

What's a "CD"?

Not if you delete the message. Or what if you were reading a message you got yesterday and there were no messages sent around the time he saw you reading one?

Some phones will let you mark a message "not read" again too. But the droid doesn't seem to let you do that (I have one too).