Comments on: Texting fine high enough to ask questions…

By: Loki

Loki — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:26:16 +0000

I love thinking of politicians…

Pass more laws to cover laws already on the books.
Simple solution, you wreck, its proven that texting while driving is the cause of the accident, ticket the person with… failure to control vehicle.

how hard is it to use laws already on the books…
you kill somebody in a wreck while texting, vehicular homicide.. hey its easy…

foolish politicians, waste all those trees for duplicate laws…. Gaia is crying…

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:08:36 +0000

In the great state of California, talking on your cell phone is illegal while you’re driving. They’re still not sure if that has caused a decrease in accidents or not, but I know for me, it certainly helps my concentration and mobility to not be holding a phone while I’m driving. So, for common sense (and because I live in CA and don’t want to face the legal consequences), I don’t talk on the phone or text and drive.

I don’t like “nanny laws” any more than the next person, but I don’t want one more distraction sending another vehicle directly into my vehicle. My common sense is not shared by everyone else on the road.

They’ve seen a rise in people talking on the phone and driving again in CA because complacency has set in. It makes money for our bankrupt state (maybe) and hopefully deters some people from using their phones while driving, so I’m not too bothered by a step up in enforcement again. If you have to make an important call – pull over, or just use a hands free device. The car-mounted ones are better than those ear-pieces, and some GPS units even have them built in; plus, they’ll connect to your phone automatically when you get in the car most of the time, so there’s nothing to hunt for. Whether it’s the law or not, it’s more safe for you.

By: Tom Mo

Tom Mo — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:06:03 +0000

Mikey brings up a good point – inadvertently or not.

Sexting the latest plague to be infecting our young people, and I haven’t heard anything of it in the longest time.

It was all over our local news for longest time for a while, with the news coaching parents on how to parent – so helpful they are.

By: LisaRenee

LisaRenee — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:41:41 +0000

As long as you don’t do it in your car after December 31st and it’s not on school property and it’s consenting adults.

By: MikeyA

MikeyA — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:36:04 +0000

What about sexting? That’s still legal right?

By: kat

kat — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:50:09 +0000

I agree with DD BOOTS, so many laws, so many crimes and sometimes no time!

By: DD BOOTS

DD BOOTS — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:25:44 +0000

Many people that commit crimes just get
plea bargains and do not get what they
deserve!!

By: GuestZero

GuestZero — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:14:50 +0000

One way that a voracious city government can screw you over for more money for the same or less services, is to either add fines to the schedule of offenses, or to increase those that exist.

And that way is very easy to “sell” to the public since people generally don’t care what happens to anyone charged with a crime.

By: DD BOOTS

DD BOOTS — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:52:06 +0000

There are a lot of stupid unenforceable
laws from all the decades before now.
In fact you can find and read many of
them on the internet.

It was then and is now just a waste
of time and discussion to put uneforceaable laws on the books when
more important and enforceable are needed.

They do not enforce many of the laws
that are on the books!

By: Tom Mo

Tom Mo — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:57:32 +0000

Gerald,

I don’t follow your logic. B/c something was done one way ten years ago and technology has advanced since then, we should make laws that takes us back a decade?

Are accident rates higher since the spread of cell phones?