Texting While Driving: It’s Only Illegal When You Do It
September 21st, 2009 9:25 AM | by Steve Anderson | 2 Comments
So here’s a fun governmental conundrum for you, gentle reader–if you’re out driving, and you get a sudden message on your Twitter feed about road conditions issued by the state on whose roads you’re driving, would you consider this illegal?
The irony is, yes, it is. Using text messages while driving, even those issued by the state about road conditions, is illegal in several states. The no texting while driving idea sounds fair enough, until you consider that the states in question are texting drivers about road conditions.
Frank Hornstein, who co-wrote Minnesota’s no texting while driving law, said this, which effectively shattered the state’s Irony Meter:
“You shouldn’t be fiddling around with any kind of electronic gadget in your car while driving.”
And in Minnesota, of course, the state text messages people to describe road conditions. So basically, use a state service while driving, go to jail.
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80% percent of all rear end collisions (the most frequent vehicle accident) are caused by driver inattention, following too closely, external distraction (talking on cell phones, shaving, applying makeup, fiddling with the radio or CD player, kids, texting, etc.) and poor judgement. I doubt if you’ll ever stop the madness so I went out and got one off these superbumper.com
check the weather before you go out, moron. texting while driving will be illegal in all 50 very soon. w00t!