[Wondergirl]

Why do you think god invented roof racks ? ;)

Never thought of that! Our neighbors will be so relieved!

I'll tell them not to smile on the next trip so they don't get bugs caught in their teeth.

[paraclete]

Well, obviously two hours from home would change the method of discipline! But what if you have four children? Leave two at home?

Definitely the recommended method

[speechlesstx]

Not 18 y/o girls who text and turn in front of me and my new car.

I said learn how to talk and drive at the same time, not text.

[speechlesstx]

Do you know what texting is? It doesn't compare to the 2 second glance at the speedometer.

First of all I'm not an idiot, I text as well as the next guy. Secondly, are you and Wondergirl too distracted to pay attention on the internet? I clearly said "learn how to drive and talk at the same time." Talk on the phone, talk to your passenger, talk to your kids, talk to the radio or the driver that cut you off while texting. Talking is not texting.

[speechlesstx]

Hello again, Steve:

So, instead of an outright ban, we could settle on more driver training...

Not a bad idea. Here in my own state, or at least in my area, DPS quit giving actual road tests to get your license. I think they've resumed that again but there's a whole generation of drivers here that didn't have to sit down with a Trooper and prove they could drive safely.

[speechlesstx]

Hello again, Steve:

Like you'll never stop tuning up your car???? Things change, Steve. When the only way for you to get from here to there IS to let your care take you there, you'll do it. And, it's happening FASTER than you think

Not if I can help it. That's why I keep voting AGAINST the nanny state Dems.

[NeedKarma]

First of all I'm not an idiot, I text as well as the next guy. Secondly, are you and Wondergirl too distracted to pay attention on the internet? I clearly said "learn how to drive and talk at the same time." Talk on the phone, talk to your passenger, talk to your kids, talk to the radio or the driver that cut you off while texting. Talking is not texting.

You didn't say any of that in the post that I was responding to: https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/2574839-post8.html:

Which reminds me, instrument panels have to go. You can't be distracted by things like watching a speedometer.

I wasn't responding to anything else but that but so I'm confused by your post.

[Wondergirl]

I said learn how to talk and drive at the same time, not text.

It has been proven that talking with a vehicle passenger uses different cognitive processes from that of talking on a cell phone, even a hands-off one. Phone users block off everything but the voice coming out of that little contraption; their brains go into a different thinking/comprehension mode.

(If you Google "cell phone use car cognitive" -- without quote marks -- or some other similar keywords, you will bring up the sites of many university and traffic safety studies.)

[spitvenom]

I hate driving and I drive a minimum of 52 miles a day to and from work. When they come out with self driving cars I will be the first inline for one. I really don't have a problem with people talking on the phone when they are driving. I do have a problem with people doing 80mph on I-95 reading a newspaper or putting on their make up.

[speechlesstx]

I wasn't responding to anything else but that but so I'm confused by your post.

Just don't begin your comments with things like, "Do you know what texting is?" I wasn't born last night.

[speechlesstx]

I do have a problem with people doing 80mph on I-95 reading a newspaper or putting on their make up.

I hear you brother.

[slapshot_oi]

While I was in South Carolina last summer, visiting a buddy at Clemson, I see this guy, looked to be in his 50s, on the highway riding a motorcycle, and being a rider myself I go to check out his bike and it's a GoldWing from the Reagan administration. Has his helmet on, but that's where it ends. The rest of him is in a wife-beater, sandals, shorts, and he's eating a sub on his lap.

Since then, I looked up motorcycle fatal rates and most of them occur in the south. North Carolina especially.

So speechless has a point, if we're banning cellphones, let's go the whole nine yards because there are clowns on the road who weren't on a cellphone but are just as distracted.

Or we can just drive defensively.

[speechlesstx]

All I know is if people are incapable of talking while driving safely, they shouldn't be on the road anyway.