texting while driving

[threeplusfire]

I sort of thought this whole texting while driving thing was some kind of cracky urban legend, like razor blades in apples at Halloween. Until some pretty boy in a BMW station wagon almost plowed into me this afternoon getting on the highway. He was merrily texting away on his iPhone.

Texting.
While driving.
While merging onto the highway on the ramp.

Seriously. What the fuck? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

Comments

[melyndabelinda.livejournal.com]

I saw a news report where they had tested the reaction time of drivers texting, drivers talking on the phone and drunk drivers. Texting drivers had the worst reaction time, drunk drivers had the best. It's pretty scary that using your cell phone while driving is more dangerous than driving drunk and yet it is still legal, or at least the laws against it are not heavily enforced.