States mulling bans on driving while texting

by Brian White posted Mar 16th 2007 at 5:41PM

We kind of get a kick out of possible laws that have to spell out common sense to people lacking it, so we chuckled a bit when we saw that legislators in Oregon and Washington want to pass laws against DWT, or "Driving While Texting." To those that just can't enjoy the peaceful gridlock of that daily commute, better not whip out that handset or even the beloved BlackBerry and start sending SMSs, emails, or whatever your own text-based poison may be. Considering how many distractions already plague drivers in modern vehicles, we suggest just a fave DAP with a preset playlist and leave it at that, eh?

Filed under: Messaging

Tags: Culture, Driving distractions, DrivingDistractions, MMS, SMS, SMS Messaging, SMS while driving, SmsMessaging, SmsWhileDriving, Text messaging, Texting, Texting while driving, TextingWhileDriving, TextMessaging

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M_Nemesis @ Mar 16th 2007 5:55PM

You're going to get in an accident reading that sign, holly crap is it long.

-M.

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L3 @ Mar 16th 2007 6:29PM

Seriously, where is the speech recognition technology? If I could just speak and have my Treo translate into text I would be golden!

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person4 @ Mar 16th 2007 7:28PM

L3, or you could just pull over, put it off, or spend less time in a car.

You want speech to text? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc

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Greg @ Mar 16th 2007 11:27PM

In WA, it's illegal to drive with earphones in so unless you have an FM transmitter for your DAP, you're still looking at a ticket

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buzz @ Mar 19th 2007 8:58PM

We don't need more laws on the books. Just enforce the ones we have for inattentive driving.

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