Comments on: I Want to Know What the Other 1 Out of 10 are Thinking http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/08/07/i-want-to-know-what-the-1-out-of-10-are-thinking/ Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on Shopify, startups, software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:18:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Taylor http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/08/07/i-want-to-know-what-the-1-out-of-10-are-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Chris Taylor Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:50:16 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/2007/08/07/i-want-to-know-what-the-1-out-of-10-are-thinking/#comment-625 It's a dumb idea to txt and drive, of course, but how in the world would any police force treat such a ban? Random RIDE spot-checks to see if your cell phone's "Sent" folder has anything recent in it? Wireless carriers dropping SMS service for customers that switch cellular towers within a certain time interval? This is one of those common-sense things that doesn't need a ban so much as a little education. If someone was truly dangerous while driving and txting, the police could, if they were so inclined, book it under existing HTA charges as "careless driving". It’s a dumb idea to txt and drive, of course, but how in the world would any police force treat such a ban? Random RIDE spot-checks to see if your cell phone’s “Sent” folder has anything recent in it? Wireless carriers dropping SMS service for customers that switch cellular towers within a certain time interval?

This is one of those common-sense things that doesn’t need a ban so much as a little education. If someone was truly dangerous while driving and txting, the police could, if they were so inclined, book it under existing HTA charges as “careless driving”.

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