Les Jones

Texting while driving

Monday, July 13th, 2009 | Tech |

Tennessee recently passed a law outlawing texting while driving. I didn’t think much about it at the time. Then last week I was in a car when the person with the steering wheel was texting while driving down the road.

HFS.

That’s the most dangerous thing I’ve ever seen. I tried to think of something more dangerous. Like maybe if your cell phone had a video camera and instead of driving while texting you were driving while doing interpretive dance. Or if you were John Dillinger and you were having a running and gunning shootout with the FBI using Tommy guns while fleeing the scene of a bank robbery and blowing a 0.15 on a Breathalyzer. That might be more dangerous. Maybe.

3 Comments to Texting while driving

Laughingdog
July 13, 2009

It doesn’t have to be that dangerous of a thing to do. All you have to do is memorize which letters are on which buttons and then you can do it with one hand without even looking at the phone.

Les Jones
July 14, 2009

Even if you’ve learned to touchtext at some point you’ve got to read the incoming texts and you can’t do that without looking at the phone.

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