Texting while driving, sometimes it just isn't worth the thrill. (Graphic car crash, no gore)

Talkers were bad enough, driving worse than drunks. Texters are absolutely the worst, so bad that anyone caught doing so needs the car impounded and sold out from under them.

Teenagers are especially bad about this, they think they're immortal.

one of those. What about putting makeup on, reading a map, even eating and a host of others?

away from the road. Forget peripheral vision when the eyes are focused in close to read or send a stupid text.

It's one of the most dangerous things you can do, far worse than putting on makeup or eating. Looking at a map while roaring down the highway is nearly as stupid, though, same reason.

phones.... but then someone would just hack that and we would start all over again.

Which means they know when they're moving fast. Why not just restrict texting if the phone is traveling at a certain speed?

At 10 mph on a residential street. Some little kid runs out in front of you and it's too late. Hand held phones should not be able to work in cars unless it's off or in park.

What they should do is use the towers like traffic camera's. If your caught using your hand held phone while driving you get a ticket even though you didn't get pulled over.

If I'm driving and I ask a passenger to look up directions to our destination, text my mom and tell her we're running late because of traffic, find someplace along our route where I can eat, or look up a route around construction traffic (all things I asked a passenger to do this weekend) there's certainly no safety reason to prevent doing so, and some of those things actually enhance safety.

Texting and driving kills, so I don't see a problem with being inconvenienced a bit in the name of safety. It doesn't take much to pull over to the side of the road to send a text. I already do that when I need to make or take a call.

Further, in many places doing so is simply not safe due to terrain, low visibility, non-existent shoulder or the potential for crime.

There is absolutely no safety reason to prevent a passenger from using a mobile phone, and many reasons doing so would create a safety issue.

I may be old but I have a hard time understanding talking on the phone while driving let alone texting.

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There is no reason that anyone should feel the need to text or call someone until they've parked somewhere to do it.

I know -- I'm old school, but texting while driving is a very stupid thing to do.

I taught myself how to use the computer when Clinton was going through impeachment & I've taught myself how to photoshop, though I've got a long way to go on that. If I don't know how to do something, I find the resources to learn them.

YouTube, for example, taught me how to clean my laptop...

In a rolling vehicle that doesn't allow phone use unless it's a hands free device. They also need sensors to detect left animals and children in cars with temperature readings. Make lights flash, horn toot, and alarm the key device.

I refuse to speak to people who call me/text while they are driving

if I ask "are you driving?" and they say yes - I hang up. You can usually tell when they're driving - sort of distracted.

half on you, half on the road - and half on the road is DANGEROUS

It won't let me press the display at all. I can use voice activated commands to use the map feature or phone. Thing is I really don't want to talk and drive either. It's also distracting. So I pretty much never use the map or phone either. Texts can still come in though. But I never look at my phone while driving.

But everyday I find myself behind or next to someone who is texting or talking on the phone. Even people crossing the street are texting while they walk across a busy city street. Maybe it's just an LA thing though? Someone please tell me people elsewhere aren't texting as much...

I own a Trac phone and I sometime reactivate it. I really have no need for it. It would be good for emergencies, but other than that, it's just another expense.

People in their gigantic SUVs with a phone held up to their ear and even school kids walking home are looking down at their phones or busy chatting away. And it's not like we don't have a lot of traffic, either. "60 Minutes" did a segment on an art theft here that was a rehearsal for a bigger robbery in Boston, but the thieves got caught because they were unexpectedly stuck in rush hour traffic. And don't get me started on the skateboarders in middle of the streets at all hours. Sometimes it feels like a driver training film.