by distracted drivers. If there's reliable technology that can expose this on-the-spot, maybe it'll make all the idiots who text while driving reconsider such a hazardous act.

We need something to prove it

I say a am sure because I looked in my mirror seconds before the collision and saw that she had her head down. Never saw me and hit me at 45 MPH.

I couldn't prove anything though.

Im sure nothing was done because there isnt much to do.

She already got a ticket for the wreck, had her insurance go up, and probably paid a large deductable on her insurance.

Would a 100 ticket have made that big of a difference.

My insurance company took care of me, then went after her.

Then a Starbucksalyzer to see if they were distracted by a $6 candy coffee drink.

Then a radioalyzer to make sure they weren't changing radio stations before the wreck.

Actually, skip the last one.

The others, not so much. Largely because they're much less common and tend not to occupy quite such long stretches of time.

Next up: Encryption that protects cell phones from being analyzed. "Sorry, officer, you can try to analyze my phone's text records, but they're encrypted. Gee, I guess you have no evidence. Sorry about the dead old person. It was an accident, I was paying attention the whole time. Oh. It's a kid. Didn't notice."

All I meant was that texting is just the latest thing to distract you.

I don't get the cars that have the touchscreen computers right there in the console. That's asking for trouble as well.

Instead of testing or seizing the phone, subpoena the records to see if there were an accident in the middle of back and forth texting.

I fully expect technology to move us passed texting with our fingers while looking at the phone and before too long only voice texting and having the texts read to you by the car will be the norm.

I suppose that you could have a texting app that doesn't record times, but that wouldn't involve encryption.

would love to see these arrogant assholes get nailed for their negligence

My phone reads and sends texts hands free in the car. How would this work with that?

I'd have to be parked.

Bring on the self driving cars cause this crap is getting ridiculous.

I think you're making shit up.

There are plenty of studies that show conclusively, that using a cell phone while driving, dramatically increases the likelihood of an accident, perhaps even more so than consuming alcohol.

Anyone who kills or injures someone, as a result of texting and driving, should have the book thrown at them.

[Xi plans to run the word with Chinese satellites. This looks like more Chinese bullshit on US soil to me]

people who think they can drive and use the phone at the same time (and that they should have a right to). Hands-free mobile phone use (whether a voice call or hands-free texting) is just as much of a distraction and just as likely to cause an accident...again, there are studies: http://tti.tamu.edu/2013/04/23/voice-to-text-apps-offer-no-driving-safety-benefit-as-with-manual-texting-reaction-times-double/

So, you know, if you think you should be able to use a phone while driving anyway? You're either an idiot, or an asshole (there really isn't a third option there).

not really a test of voice to text. My phone can be in my pocket and I never have to touch it. Not a valid study for the voice texting I am talking about.

from the study

Directly from the study you linked....

if you look at the results (I would copy them here but they don't format well.)

You will notice that test after test performance of hands free texting was equivalent to having a passenger in the car.

Or are you suggesting we should outlaw passengers as well?

Another thing of note the differences in reaction times were all under 100 milliseconds a period of time so small you cant even notice it under normal circumstances.

I love the way you keep changing studies though then claiming I am wrong about what the previous study documents.

Texting while driving is much worse than just talking on the phone. You have to be looking at your phone for long enough to put together the message, it's not just about being distracted.

My phone does not require me to touch it. So not really valid studies.

please

and address the points made by them instead of not reading past the headline.

If you are that phone dickted turn it off before putting vehicle in gear...

My new hobby is seeing people next to me sit still when the light turns green. One one-thousand, Two one-thousand, Three one-thousand. HOOOOONK! They look behind them then left and right, then usually jet...

Lesson learned- one idiot at a time

I'm half tempted to have a flashing neon sign the back door side windows of my truck-

STOP TEXTING ASSHOLE!

Illegal in some states, have to check Texas law

As hands free texting and having a passenger in the car produce roughly equivalent results in reaction times.

A little discouraged that people don't read past click bait headlines perhaps but I have grown fairly used to that after the years here.


On a side note texting manually while driving is clearly dangerous. I have no argument with that whatsoever. I do want to know how they will differentiate that from hands free with this law as the research from the studies linked by my detractors in this thread show it is no more distracting than a passenger and sometimes less.

Slope- goes - down-

Pretty easy for cops to figure out texting-while-driving accidents as it is though... NO BRAKING!

Sure Ill hand you my phone. Too bad its locked. Go get a search warrant.

Imstead their response is to pull my drivers liscense, so Im guilty until proven innocent.

Easier option. Dont tell the cops you have a phone. Dont lue, just dont answer the question. Or keep your old phone on you. No text on this phone since 2014.