Comments on: Texting While Driving

By: Linda Schlax

Linda Schlax — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:29:35 +0000

I absolutely think it should be against the law to text or talk while driving. These roads are so so dangerous and even if someone is nnot talking or texting they still have terrible accidents. I’m a mom and I want to get home in one piece.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:36:14 +0000

I think the fines for texting in California are WAY TOO low! Come on now, $20.00 for the first offense. It should be $200.00 or more. There’s nothing THAT important to say that can’t wait until you park your car!!! And that goes for people talking on their cell-phones. It’s a joke to think a “headset” makes a difference. People may be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, but most can’t talk and drive at the same time!!!

By: Par

Par — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:18:39 +0000

I’m against giving the Govt more power. They don’t know where to stop. Pretty soon we can’t drink coffee and drive.. Govt thinks it’s their job to tell us what’s safe and what’s not. Soon they may want to put us all into padded cells so we’re all perfectly safe and controlable. Beware of these liberal actions!!

By: RoadHed

RoadHed — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:10:42 +0000

James, dude, sorry you had to see that.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:12:03 +0000

Texting,or phoning are more dangerous than DWI because the driver is NOT paying full attention to the conditions around them. Even using a handsfree is still not safe although legal.

CA law states anyone under 18 not use any electronic device while driving, and should be the same law here as well. Unless there is a real emergency, just pull over to use the phone if possible.W

By: Robert Garity

Robert Garity — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:03:19 +0000

It’s not necessarily good to use California law as a “reasonable standard” when making policy in Nevada, but certainly it’s not a good idea to drive while texting, dialing a mobile phone, fiddling with your iPod or even eating. In fact I’ve seen more people “almost get into an accident” while trying to manage a burger and a Coke while driving. It seems to me that making a law specific only to texting is a bad idea. Any such law should address careless driving, and I think there is such a law on the books. Perhaps that law needs an update, to include referene to “keyboarding” and eating while driving, but carelessness should be the emphasis, and their should be a tier system for severity. But we should ask the cops before we do anything, because somebody has to enforce these laws and it’s very difficult to enforce an anti-texting law, probably more difficult that seatbelts because the phone can easily be kept out of site.

Want to pass a good law? Stop selling single containers of beer and wine in Convenience stores, Grocery and Liquor stores, and increase the penalty for open containers. Their only purpose is to be consumed on the way home, in the car. I invite you to sit outside a convenience store for 10 minutes at 5PM and watch how many people are buying a beer and opening it up in their car, right in the parking lot! And there’s no way for Law Enforcement to do anything about it but bust the drunks when they crash and kill law abiding citizens and their families. This is a law Senator Shirley Breeden should introduce, for the benefit of all. Hopefully the booze, beer and convenience store lobby won’t be working that day.

My $0.02.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:27:12 +0000

Dear driver,
Why use your turn signal,we all know where you are going.

Why not make a u-turn when it’s clearly posted
NO U TURN as that sign is not meant for you.

Why not turn on red when it says NO TURN ON RED,
after all that pedestrian in the crosswalk should
yield to you,doesn’t he know that you are in a hurry.

Why should you yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk
as you would have to stop and it may cost you a minute
or two in your trip. Who cares if he is already in the
crosswalk. YOU ARE BIGGER AND FASTER.

Count the times in 1 day you ignore these little laws
as you are to important to use anything like common
courtesy while driving in your world.

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:29:16 +0000

OMG! Thank you VegasMojo!! Someone else who tells it like it is without the “touchy-feely” sugar coating! I agree with VegasMojo 100%. And it’s funny you should mention sex while driving, because while leaving Gordon Biersch on Monday afternoon, my attention was drawn to a vehicle that was stopped at a red light, but it was well in front of the crosswalk, so it was nearly sitting in the middle of the intersection. The light went green and the guy started driving… poorly. As I got closer to him in traffic, I saw a woman with her face buried in his crotch, and his right arm was around the back of her head. He had the driver’s seat leaned almost all the way back too… driving through stop-and-go Summerlin traffic… what a moron, not a bit of tint on the window and in broad daylight.

Thank you again, VegasMojo, for not being afraid to point out all the ambient stupidity that surrounds us that we’ve all been taught to not point out lest we offend someone.

By: VegasMojo

VegasMojo — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:48:53 +0000

I don’t believe we should author laws to govern idiots. We already have similar concepts by lowering our scholastic standards to lowest common intelligence…which simply normalizes moronic levels of capability.

If idiots drive recklessly…they should be cited. Reckless Driving should include texting, phone talking, making applying, shaving, reading anything, eating anything, and oh yeah…sex while steering.

And, if you truely wish to catch morons and idiots, then allow your lawmakers to place cameras on our roads. They have to have evidence before they can cite. If you don’t want cameras…maybe you might just be one of the idiots…