Do you text and drive?
A new study has shown that texting while driving is much more dangerous than making a call while driving.
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Red Foreman
July 28th, 2009
11:55 am
First!!!
No, its insane!
Christopher Cook
July 28th, 2009
11:56 am
Absolutely not. If I have a phone, I want to use it for its primary function–to communicate voice-to-voice, not tippy-tap-tap to tippy-tap-tap. And if I’m driving, I use a bluetooth. People who text while driving should have their licenses revoked.
KG
July 28th, 2009
12:05 pm
Let me get this straight, a group of people had to perform a “study” to figure all of this out? Why does common sense require a study?
Darwin Theory
July 28th, 2009
12:12 pm
Duh. It is the Darwin Theory at its best…. the dumb ones are weeded out of the herd…. just don’t take innocent victims with you.
Texting while driving has got to be as bad or worse than driving while under the influence of drugs and alcohol……… Oh, wait, lots of people texting ARE driving while drunk or stoned. They might as well text their LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
(1.) Your eyes are NOT on the road. (2.) Your brain is engaged in an entirely different activity which is NOT driving (3.) Your hands are NOT in control of the steering wheel because you are typing with your thumbs like a chimpanzee.
Don’t be an idiot.
aztec
July 28th, 2009
12:21 pm
i sure hope my tax dollars did not pay for this very stupid study, this is nothing but common sense
shaggy
July 28th, 2009
12:24 pm
Of course, I do. I am compelled to type meaningless messages on a crappy little keyboard, while I drive. Usually, I will tank up with a few beers, a line of meth, and some xanax to take the edge off, while I text my friends about what kind of boring existence I have. Boy, it sure sucks to be me. How about you?
Darwin Theory
July 28th, 2009
12:29 pm
I agree with KG…… Common Sense should not require an expensive “study”. Is this an example of where the so-called “stimulus” funds are going?
I am also against a lot of other activities that I’ve witnessed other drivers engaged in while swerving 70 MPH down the highway: reading, changing clothes, searching for something in the back seat, and beating someone in their passenger seat..
But, I don’t want to see our taxes wasted on studies to determine if such bad judgment is dangerous while driving.
Cammi317
July 28th, 2009
12:34 pm
LMAO @ “beating someone in their passenger seat.. ” Thanks for the mid-day chuckle, Darwin Theory!
Jason
July 28th, 2009
12:39 pm
Apparently everything requires a study now. No matter how obvious.
LOL, HEHE, 143, BFF, OMG, L8R,
July 28th, 2009
12:42 pm
I agree with shaggy, its only appropriate to text while driving while inebreated beyond all recognition, and in your finest billigerant state.
LB
July 28th, 2009
12:42 pm
I text while driving all the time. It is not that difficult, I can type and watch the road at the same time!
Soccer Mom
July 28th, 2009
12:42 pm
Just how the hell can I keep up with what my friends are wearing to the pool if I don’t text while driving? You all are idiots!
Kim
July 28th, 2009
12:43 pm
I’m amazed that so many GA people are citing Darwin! Who knew??
sherry
July 28th, 2009
12:44 pm
no way you have to watch out for all the other crazy people that are doing it, they love to pull out in front of ya, and then blow the horne at ya like you did something wrong.
MR. Unknown just in case Grandma is here!!
July 28th, 2009
12:45 pm
I almost got hit head on by a wrong way driver this weekend… On my way to Arkansa I20 ugh.. This is totaly of subject, wanted to share my life flashing in front of my eyes.. With that said, there should be a study on age limits for drivers… If you have reached a certain age, you should not be allowed to drive!!!! Period!!!!!
Skid Marks
July 28th, 2009
12:47 pm
I have a simple driving test……Put the person in a car, send them on the highway and if they drive with their mouth open and eyes half closed, they fail the driving test and NEVER get a license.
20th century man
July 28th, 2009
12:51 pm
I’d rather see someone texting than wearing a queer looking bluetooth…..The bluetooth was NEVER hip…..Give it up yuppie boy.
Soccer Mom
July 28th, 2009
12:55 pm
I knew it…..Heather is wearing her blue bikini again…..It only means Sean is the lifeguard today…..Give it up Heather…..He has a girlfriend and you are married.
Mel
July 28th, 2009
1:03 pm
Hell No!
I don’t even answer the phone while I am driving. IT CAN WAIT.
JoeV
July 28th, 2009
1:09 pm
20th century man,
As long as the bluetooth doesn’t leave the car its a good thing that makes the roads safer. Wearing one anywhere outside of a car is grounds for expulsion. Mine is built into my car so kma.
Watch the road!
July 28th, 2009
1:14 pm
No way would I text while driving. I think the people who do are idiots.
Ms Ice
July 28th, 2009
1:14 pm
I totally agree with Shaggy….geesh i would never do that i don’t even answer the phone on speaker when driving duhhhh!!!!! btw –
MR UNKNOWN YOUR BLOG NAME IS CUTE
HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE
20th century man
July 28th, 2009
1:18 pm
What makes the roads safer is less people like you that feel entitled to do as they please while bragging about their cars.
Do you actually believe because you have bluetooth in your car you are safer? Do you think the moon landing was faked too?
Citizen of the World
July 28th, 2009
1:20 pm
No. Nor do I make phone calls, although I sometimes take one depending on the circumstances.
A woman I know got in a pretty bad car wreck while dialing her cell phone, which is not even quite as distracting as texting. She messed up her foot pretty bad, lost months and months of work and will never be completely back to normal with it. Plus, the person in the other car was injured, too.
The irony is, she thought she could do it. She said she always assumed she was able to do this, that it was other people who were incapable of dialing and driving at the same time.
MISS AMERICA
July 28th, 2009
1:20 pm
HECK YEA I T-W-D!!! *TEXT WHILE DRIVING* Sometimes I dont feel like talking on the phone with my friends for 20+ mins…so it’s much easier to txt a simple question and receive a simple answer. 1 min tops!!!! SCORE!!! I dont know about the rest of you, but I have a life and dont intend on wasting valuable time chatting it up over nonsense. Answer the question and keep it moving! I bet all of u saying NO YOU DONT EVER TXT WHILE DRIVING…are the main ones, not stayin in your own lanes and not using signal lights…oh and your probably OLD AS DIRT. hehehe. OHHH AND BTW…IM DRIVING WHILE IM TXTING THIS COMMENT TO AJC….LMAO
NNC
July 28th, 2009
1:22 pm
I have to say I am guilty when it comes to texting and driving. I am working on it because I do not want to bloodguilty before Jehovah God.
Runs with scissors
July 28th, 2009
1:28 pm
It’s texting that I hate. I hate getting work related e mails with “lol” or “plz” or “r u ready for the presentation….me 2″
If people die while texting and driving, good. It thins the herd.
Dick Cheney
July 28th, 2009
1:32 pm
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JoeV
July 28th, 2009
1:38 pm
20th century man,
Are you really that dense? How is having a hands free phone conversation ANY different than having a conversation with a passenger? Are you telling me that you don’t have conversations with your passengers?!?!?!? If you don’t then wow, just wow.
I’m not bragging about anything…I INSTALLED the bluetooth myself JA.
20th century man
July 28th, 2009
1:41 pm
Is it possible to engage in discourse that does not include insults and attacks?
Again, with the bragging. No one cares. You’ve made your point, and sadly it is an indictment of yourself and not hands free phone calls.
Let's Go Bravos!
July 28th, 2009
1:41 pm
I text while I drive sometimes, so you better watch out!!
Skid Marks
July 28th, 2009
1:45 pm
Joe V seems insecure. Have your tried Match.com?
JoeV
July 28th, 2009
1:48 pm
The bluetooths exist because you touch yourself at night. How’s that for an indictment of myself? I’m juvenile and like to call people names. I’m sorry that you fear the big, bad, and scary technology of the 21st century.
pat
July 28th, 2009
1:48 pm
Texting while driving should be banned in all states. Calling, unless it’s an emergency, should also be banned while
driving!
ATL
July 28th, 2009
1:50 pm
TEXTING IS NO JOKE…I DON’T THINK ANYTHING IN THE WORLD IS THAT IMPORTANT, PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN KILLED BECAUSE OF TEXING, BUT SOME OF YOU ON THIS BLOG THINK ITS A JOKE, I HOPE NOTHING HAPPENS TO YOU WHILE YOU ARE TEXTING AND MAKING JOKES.
JoeV
July 28th, 2009
1:56 pm
ATL…
LOUD NOISES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rachel Ray
July 28th, 2009
2:05 pm
YUMMO!
R.D.Mercer
July 28th, 2009
2:09 pm
I never text while driving, it conflicts with my ability to eat & distracts me from watching my DVD’s.
B Atlanta, GA
July 28th, 2009
2:23 pm
I not only never text while driving I will not even make a phone call while driving. It is dangerous to my self and to other people on the road. Using a cell phone while driving should be illegal!
AeroNautica0909
July 28th, 2009
2:38 pm
KG, while I COMPLETELY agree with you, common sense appears to not be so “common” as we believe that it is. However, it was a waste of money to conduct such a study like this, as it is something that we already know.
Since I use a BlackBerry, I can’t text and drive- the phone is too big. Moreover, I prefer to focus entirely on the road and ignore my phone as much as I possibly can. If something is really that important, that’s what shoulders can be used for- for pulling over and answering your call or texting someone.
Becky
July 28th, 2009
2:40 pm
I can just barely text while I’m sitting at my desk, much less while I’m
driving…
Becky
July 28th, 2009
2:42 pm
I want to get paid for a silly “study”..Why do people go on blogs to discuss things, then call others names just because they don’t agree with them…
Clay
July 28th, 2009
2:44 pm
I must admit that I have been known to reply to texts while driving. I know I shouldn’t.
JoeV
July 28th, 2009
2:49 pm
Bless your heart Becky
JG
July 28th, 2009
2:53 pm
Texting while driving may be bad but it all depends on who the person driving is. It would be about the same as someone trying to find a CD to listen to or even trying to find a radio station to listen to. You will have to take your eyes off the road. Some people can text and drive with no problem and would rarely take their eyes off the road and then there are some people that see an sign and can be distracted for a good bit of time. What the study tells you is how much time you are not looking at the road and how much could go on in that time. What it doesn’t tell you is the state of mind the person is in and how good a peripheral vision that person has. You have to know what is going on around you. If you want to listen to that statistic then most people shouldn’t drive within a mile of their home because that is where they will have most of their accidents. WOW….
Grim Reaper
July 28th, 2009
2:55 pm
If you talk on the phone or text while you are driving, please have an insurance policy or good lawyer. You are either going to die or kill someone else..
MIKE VICK SUPPORTER
July 28th, 2009
2:57 pm
I WILL TEXT AND DRIVE IF I WANT TO! AND YOU HATERS CANT DO A THING ABOUT IT! I WONT USE NO TURN SIGNAL NEITHER IF I DONT FEEL LIKE IT!
Gandalf of Gwinnesia
July 28th, 2009
3:00 pm
What is texting?
NAF
July 28th, 2009
3:01 pm
No! And when I see ppl texting while driving I get the heck out of the way!
Vida
July 28th, 2009
3:02 pm
I’m guilty. I try to wait until there is a red light, or traffic, but I’ve done it while driving before. Not safe, yes I know.
proud of gwinnett
July 28th, 2009
3:08 pm
I think it’s stupid to text and drive! Come on people, if your hands and eyes are on the phone how can you be looking at the road or even controlling your car. As for Mike Vick Supporter, well as we can see from your name stupid people all stick together and there is no cure for being stupid or ignorant. Until you are hurt or an innocent child is hurt becuse of your doing you will stay stupid and ignortant!!!
M. T.
July 28th, 2009
3:11 pm
Anyone who would text and drive is, quite simply, a douchebag.
Becky
July 28th, 2009
3:16 pm
@JoeV..No need to bless my heart..I can text, I just don’t feel the need to..I enjoy talking to people…
wew
July 28th, 2009
3:18 pm
Are you kidding? I thing it is dangerous and dumb. Anyone caught texing and driving should be charged and spend a day in jail, for putting lives at risk.
Suga
July 28th, 2009
3:24 pm
Seriously? Every time I get behind some idiot and I can see they are texting, I blare my horn at them…….you would be surprised at the response I get.
You can always tell who is texting while driving. It’s the idiot slowing traffic down to 20 mph below the posted speed……
Bob Knotts
July 28th, 2009
3:33 pm
The guy who crashed into my fence was not only .15 BAC, but he told the cops the was also texting. Brilliant.
shaggy
July 28th, 2009
3:34 pm
It’s not stupid to text & drive. The proper way to express that thought is, “stupid people text”. They also tweet and think someone actually cares about their pitiful, dweebish life. Sadly, these twits reproduce like rats and create more nimrods.
proud of gwinnett
July 28th, 2009
3:47 pm
I know, I teach them!!!
deaf taser cop
July 28th, 2009
3:49 pm
“I was worried that guy in the bathroom was gonna put his eye out with that umbrella. I’m just giving him 50,000 volts for his own good. I ain’t skeert of him, but he could whop you on the head with that thing. What’s he doing that finger motion stuff for Charlie? What’t he want us to think, that he’s deaf or sonmething? Yeah right! I say let’s just shoot him. The juice ain’t workin.
Great Picture
July 28th, 2009
4:46 pm
That’s a new one…. a black man trying to jack a car from the Passenger side! LOL
“Look oba der, dat whitie be texdin… lets jack him while he bes destracted”
MISS AMERICA
July 28th, 2009
4:46 pm
LMAO @ R.D.Mercer!!!!
BravesFan79
July 28th, 2009
4:52 pm
Mike Vick Supporter: Better watch out man…. if you crash that stolen car while texting, could lead to big trouble.
Becky
July 28th, 2009
5:00 pm
I saw a woman yesterday stopped at a stop sign that had a plate in her hand, a fork in her other hand and a cell phone tucked under her chin..Then she made a turn using her knee to drive with..Yes, I’m assuming that she was using her knee..How stupid can people be?
Andrew
July 28th, 2009
5:33 pm
I text while driving sometimes. No I don’t slow down traffic. I prefer to do it while stopped at a red light, though.
And most of the people that are opposed to text messages are probably older than 40. It’s ok though, just don’t force your preferences on other people.
dixiewife44
July 28th, 2009
7:01 pm
Good grief !! What the heck is wrong with people. Its a CAR not a phonebooth or office..
The states should start to pass a law probhibiting texting and using the cell phone while behind the wheel of a vehicle, and ENFORCE it ..
Skid Marks
July 29th, 2009
11:16 am
Did Joe V get a date yet?
Bored@theSalon
August 4th, 2009
12:05 pm
to dixiewife44, in California it is illegal to text while driving. I believe it was a smart move for cali. More and more teen’s die each year because of texing about something pointless while driving. Studies show even more wreck or die because of the cell phones then D.W.I.
As for everyone else, thank you for this interesting read people complaining about nonsense is always a great read.
And just so you know. I do not dare touch my phone while driving. I refuse for anyone while driving me talk or text on there phones..and it’s not a stereotype for young adults to do it. I am twenty years old and have never touched my phone while driving but I guess some people are complete douchebags who like to endanger others lives.
John
October 11th, 2009
10:13 pm
R freedoms r going away kwik. Everytime someone gets hurt or killed or is slightly inconvenienced, crazed wimps cry to pass laws to ban whatever they were doing. C’mon ppl, use your gourds. Kids fall out of trees and break their arms from time to time. Gonna chop all the trees down next? Stay calm, be careful, and use some common sense. Some r able to text while driving, some r not. Some kids climb trees without falling, some fall. Stop robbing me of freedom and wasting my time. I knew a guy killed on a motorcycle. Do we ban motorcycles? Of course not. We all learn a lesson to be more careful and go on with our lives. Soon it will be illegal to go out of your house. You could get killed!
Stoney Baloney
October 12th, 2009
8:15 pm
I can clean my weed and roll a joint one handed while driving. I can certainly text driving with no problem.
Julie
January 17th, 2010
9:18 pm
THE SOLUTION TO TEXTING AND DRIVING…IT IS QUICKLY BECOMING A GA LAW…LETS GET AHEAD OF THE CURVE…
check this out…www.fdi-voice.org and then call me…this technology is SAVING LIVES!!