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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
I agree with you here except when it involves putting other people at risk...which texting while driving does. This is way more important than banning cell phone calls while driving which many states already have.
There is even speculation that the LA commuter train collision was caused because one operator was texting.
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How do they enforce it?
I mean, you can force someone to take a breathalyzer test when he is swerving back and forth on the highway, but how do you enforce this?
Give the police a computer program that shows all activity on your phone the past 10 min?
The only way to enforce something like this would be to get really involved in people's personal lives. Which is why I don't like it.
Sure, its stupid, and sure I want to run over the stupid bitch in the white car that almost blindsided me the other week in Lethbridge because she was texting, but I really don't know how you can enforce this without really keying in on what people are doing.
Cop pulls you over, all you need to do is close your phone. How is he going to prove that you were texting?
Knowing that, how many mistakes would be made by cops saying someone was texting, and the guy saying he wasn't?
Court cases galore.