Comments on: Texting And Driving Ban On The Open Road To Full House Vote http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/texting-and-driving-ban-on-the-open-road-to-full-house-vote Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:45:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/texting-and-driving-ban-on-the-open-road-to-full-house-vote/comment-page-1#comment-196902 Mark Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:11:35 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=133623#comment-196902 friction against the machine wrote: "A study done around 2005 showed that the average motorist can’t drive more than 50 yards without infringing on some traffic law or doing something that would techniqually give rise to a traffic stop. Is this REALLY the country you want?" Could you provide a link to this study? I find that very hard to believe that you cannot drive 50 yards without doing something that would give rise to a traffic stop. I did a google search on "distracted driving studies", and nothing I saw confirmed this information. You also said: "Another redundant feel good law that does nothing to address a problem" I'm just wondering here, if the law does nothing, then what do YOU say will correct the problem? Just yesterday, I'm driving down 9 mile when I notice the car next to me seems to be drifting in my lane. When I looked over, the lady was looking down obviously reading a text message or sending one. When I honked my horn to get her attention, she almost over-corrected and went off the road! How did people survive car rides BEFORE cell phones? friction against the machine wrote:

“A study done around 2005 showed that the average motorist can’t drive more than 50 yards without infringing on some traffic law or doing something that would techniqually give rise to a traffic stop. Is this REALLY the country you want?”

Could you provide a link to this study? I find that very hard to believe that you cannot drive 50 yards without doing something that would give rise to a traffic stop. I did a google search on “distracted driving studies”, and nothing I saw confirmed this information.

You also said: “Another redundant feel good law that does nothing to address a problem”

I’m just wondering here, if the law does nothing, then what do YOU say will correct the problem?

Just yesterday, I’m driving down 9 mile when I notice the car next to me seems to be drifting in my lane. When I looked over, the lady was looking down obviously reading a text message or sending one. When I honked my horn to get her attention, she almost over-corrected and went off the road!

How did people survive car rides BEFORE cell phones?

]]> By: friction against the machine http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/texting-and-driving-ban-on-the-open-road-to-full-house-vote/comment-page-1#comment-196807 friction against the machine Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:59:22 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=133623#comment-196807 Another redundant feel good law that does nothing to address a problem. You people need to wake up...you're ok with them passing these laws until YOU get charged with it or stopped on the pretext that you're texting. There are more pages of laws, regulations and administrative procedures in this country than in the history of the world. There are so many laws on the books that in some cases you can't follow one law without breaking another. A study done around 2005 showed that the average motorist can't drive more than 50 yards without infringing on some traffic law or doing something that would techniqually give rise to a traffic stop. Is this REALLY the country you want? Another redundant feel good law that does nothing to address a problem. You people need to wake up…you’re ok with them passing these laws until YOU get charged with it or stopped on the pretext that you’re texting.

There are more pages of laws, regulations and administrative procedures in this country than in the history of the world. There are so many laws on the books that in some cases you can’t follow one law without breaking another.

A study done around 2005 showed that the average motorist can’t drive more than 50 yards without infringing on some traffic law or doing something that would techniqually give rise to a traffic stop. Is this REALLY the country you want?

]]> By: Henry Coe http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/texting-and-driving-ban-on-the-open-road-to-full-house-vote/comment-page-1#comment-196489 Henry Coe Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:22:47 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=133623#comment-196489 Please, pass it. People texting and driving are a dangerous hazard. People texting or using the phone while pushing a shopping cart are also dangerous and also need to be stopped, but that's probably not addressed in this bill. Please, pass it. People texting and driving are a dangerous hazard.

People texting or using the phone while pushing a shopping cart are also dangerous and also need to be stopped, but that’s probably not addressed in this bill.

]]> By: mick http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/texting-and-driving-ban-on-the-open-road-to-full-house-vote/comment-page-1#comment-196460 mick Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:03:27 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=133623#comment-196460 Its not an infringement on anyone's personal liberty to act stupid...texting while driving has become a scourge on society it is going to get as bad as driving under the influence...where I work people walk down the halls and literally run into each other because thet are texting or reading text. Again ask those students who were friends with the high school student who was killed because of this problem if they kept their promise not to text while driving... If this gets passed hopefully it will have some teeth to it, because Alabama's law is lame it does absolutely nothing to curtail this terrible problem.... Its not an infringement on anyone’s personal liberty to act stupid…texting while driving has become a scourge on society it is going to get as bad as driving under the influence…where I work people walk down the halls and literally run into each other because thet are texting or reading text. Again ask those students who were friends with the high school student who was killed because of this problem if they kept their promise not to text while driving… If this gets passed hopefully it will have some teeth to it, because Alabama’s law is lame it does absolutely nothing to curtail this terrible problem….

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