Cell Phone Near Miss:

Bah, these problems usually take care of themselves with the stupid people that do it ending up dead.

Actually a good solution is to just put a GPS in every phone, have a program that runs on the phone at all times that uses GPS to monitor speed. If the speed is above 10 miles per hour it cuts out the ability to text, and also if it doesn't detect a bluetooth headset at those speeds, it will not let you talk on it either.

Was there not talk at one time of making texting & talking on a cell phone against the law while driving in Alabama?
Dr. Pepper, I'm glad to hear you didn't have an accident.

I think Roger Bedford did something to kill that bill.

Even if it were a law, would it be enforced? I rarely see or hear of people being ticketed for littering or playing their stereos too loud.

Have you guys never seen the video of the guy on the motorcycle running in highway traffic texting on his phone? Someone post that here, Ive seen it posted on TD before....

Jeepin'

Oh! Now THERE'S a Darwin Award just waiting to happen! (referring to original post).

Loki, that speed limiter thing wouldn't work either. I remember reading an article about a city in Britain where they actually had to pad all the utility poles and lamp posts along the sidewalks because people were WALKING into them while texting......

I have observed this phenomenon before in Kent, CT.
*BONG! ow! *crumplethud*. *PRANG!* ah! What th'? It's hilarious!

Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to cell phones and texting.

[quote]Actually a good solution is to just put a GPS in every phone, have a program that runs on the phone at all times that uses GPS to monitor speed. If the speed is above 10 miles per hour it cuts out the ability to text, and also if it doesn't detect a bluetooth headset at those speeds, it will not let you talk on it either.[/quote]

This would also restrict the passengers in the vehicle. As a passenger, I want to be able to use my phone.

Hmm.

10MPH? You got any idea just how much damage can be caused below 10MPH? Just ask the lady who backs over her kid in the driveway at 2 1/2 MPH because she just HAD to fire off that quick text message to her bff before she left home.

Or the guy in the bank drive-up line who forgot he was supposed to be holding his foot on the brake and rear-ended the car in front of him.

Or the one who decides to fire off a quick text while waiting at a traffic light at a crosswalk with pedestrians in it and hears a horn honk behind him and hits the throttle-thinking the light has changed before getting the big picture and realizing that there are still peds in the crosswalk, the light HASN'T changed yet, and the horn wasn't for him-as he turns a little old lady into a smear on the pavement with a bloody rag at the other end of it 40 feet past the crosswalk at 10 MPH.

People need to realize that cars have the potential to be deadly weapons. You wouldn't be texting on your phone with a gun in your other hand-WHY on earth would you do it in a car?