As a 47 year old,I don't even know how to "text",in fact,I don't even know if my cell phone will allow me to text,additionally,I don't even know my cell phone # due to it never being used and just stored in my glove compartment for emergencies.

Back in the early 80's late 70's the phone company came out with this little texting device, a few people had it then but I didn't buy into it, this little device disappeared being replaced by a big expensive cell phone,I didn't buy that either, ya know what? I never bought a cell ever and now people are back to chatting on texting devices that could just as well be hands free talking devices. I think a normal conversation in person would be nice.

Hey...there's this new device you can use when you're driving.
You merely push a button with your thumb making a series of beeping noises, some kind of code. You can keep your eye on the road too! I think they call it...let me see what was it..oh yeah..Morse code!!

Well, you sophisticates can dig up 8 tracks to make yourself proud. Yeah, the "brilliant" ones are too "smart" for texting or cellphones--who cares. Fuddy--duddies. Dave says, "I don't even know how to text"--who gives a clap?

So, brilliant inventors will create new technology to make texting while driving safe.

Sounds like a retirement magazine rant.

I can't help but wonder how long it will be before the analysis of cell phone records will be standard procedure during the investigation of any traffic collision - just so that it can be determined whether or not the driver was distracted by either texting or talking on the phone at the moment of the accident.

Bumper sticker seen on an SUV in Peachtree City, GA: "Are you drunk, or just on your cell phone?" 'Nuff said?

The state of California did a study around ten years ago that prooved using a cell phone while driveing was responsible for approx. 30% more accidents than driving while being legally intoxicated. This problem is only getting worse. Large fines and then jail terms should be legislated for people that use these devices while driving.

People need to realize they are driving "Killing Machines" and it requires full attention and concentration to be responsible behind the wheel.

Not everyone under thirty is stupid enough to text while driving, so don't make it sound like that. You don't have to be "brillliant" to see the problem. All you need is a little common sense. Texting requires continual glancing away from the traffic. Cell phones can be voice-activated and hands-free, like mine, so are safer. Why don't people just call if they have something to say?

How about just shutting up, and listening to music?

talking on a cellphone while driving is bad news,period. I was almost ran over at an intersection by a post-teen girl chatting on her phone. She was not paying attention. the bulk of the populace has no appreciation for the laws of physics; in other words no understanding that cars are dangerous flying hunks of metal.

I've never "texted," but I get them through misdialed numbers. It's amazing the useless messages people send, and how difficult it can be to figure them out. It's sometimes worse than reading illiterate responses to blogs.

Why anyone who cannot spell or write would willingly type messages into a hand held device, whether driving or not, escapes me. But if one of these idiots kills me on the road it could very possibly be by sending me an inscrutable message which, as I attempt to decipher it, causes me to lose my mind and drive into a wall.

Forget dangling participles, let's see some current DWT accident stats, then propose a Darwin Award for fatalities involving Driving While Mangling Messages.

I recall there was one Darwin Award awhile back, featuring some hotshot, late for a sales presentation, who wrapped his car around a light pole doing 80 MPH. When they pried him out of the wreckage they found an open How To sales manual stapled to his chest with the steering column.

Chapter One: Multi-Tasking While Using Heavy Machinery.

Body of text: "Don't."

Proceed to next lesson.

(Or, in "texting": chapitur1, multEtaskin wile uzen hevE musheenrE...doant

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anyone caught texting while driving should be immediately executed.

Do this for one year - no trials! - and DWT would cease.

They were so quick to come up with hands-free talk devices but how come no hands-free text devices.