Drunk or staring at a phone? a new highway game

[zank]

It's getting f--king maddening. Not just on the highway of course. Weaving, slowing down, speeding up, driving dangerously slow. Some keep it in their lap. Some hold it up in plain sight. When is this shit going to stop? I know. Never. F--k me.

So angry right now.

[zetroc]

Every single day I see at least 3 people driving and staring at their phones. It's almost enough to make me ride exclusively on dirt. Almost.

[jesseth]

We are going to look back on this as a very weird time. The computers were just smart enough to be more interesting than driving, but not quite smart enough to drive themselves.

It took the arrival of magic entertainment machines in our pockets to realize just how incredibly boring driving a car is.

[Christian Fox]

When I go into my office, I walk to the deli for breakfast. It's maybe a 1/3 of a mile walk, takes about 5 minutes. In that time I can count on seeing 3 to 4 morons staring at their stupid fucking phones while driving down a very busy street. And that's every day. Extrapolate that and the numbers are staggering. It's just like bullying; you can't imagine the time and effort they spend in schools preaching anti-bullying to kids these days and it doesn't do shit. No amount of public service messages will do anything. Every idiot texting while driving knows what they are doing is wrong, but they just won't stop.

[Mabouya]

Obviously society doesn't care, because if as a whole we did, something would be done about it.

Enforcement got people to put on their seatbelts.

Enforcement can get folks to stop texting/whatever while driving.

[robin3mj]

Obviously society doesn't care, because if as a whole we did, something would be done about it.

Enforcement got people to put on their seatbelts.

Enforcement can get folks to stop texting/whatever while driving.

"Enforcement" doesn't even do jack shit about people driving through stop signs at full speed in my residential neighborhood. There is zero chance they will enforce the vagaries of who is driving distractedly due to being glued to an iPhone versus who is just a shitty driver anyway.

Nothing is going to happen until someone "influential" (Oprah? Rush? Taylor Swift?) loses a spouse/child to a texting driver and makes a pink ribbon cause of it.

[edoz]

Enforcement is just as guilty as the masses. Half the times I see a Tulsa cop drive by, they are on their phone.

[EricKeller]

If you see someone change into the left lane for no reason, pull in front of them and slam on the brakes. They are texting. It's for their own good.

[Chad]

In the great state of Nebraska they were forward thinking enough to outlaw texting, yet make it a secondary offense...So you have to be pulled over for something else. Eff me.

Enforcement didn't get using seat belts to be the norm, education did, and it will do the same for texting, but it is going to take a long long time.