The abundance of people that text and drive

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Anonymous wrote:I say it depends on how you define "drive".

If you're moving, then I take issue with that. That's a problem. That's compromising safety.

If you're sitting in traffic, crawling and stopping over and over... that's not driving. That's moving a few feet every minute.

My commute is 3 miles. But traffic is horrendous. It can sometimes take 45'minutes to go THREE miles. I only drive it during bad weather or when I'm going someplace right after work, the est of the time I bike if I'm in a hurry, or I walk.


But I refuse to accept that me texting or doing anything else on my phone is a danger to anyone when I'm sitting in traffic having not moved for four minutes.

These stupid zero tolerance policies are just as dumb as the ones they have for kids in school, where a 14 year old girl gets suspended for "drug possession" because she has Midol.

It's stupid.

I was rear-ended in my car while pregnant by a woman in stop and go traffic you described. Put your effing phone down.

First of all, if you were rear ended, then the traffic was obviously moving at least intermittently. You have a right to be angry about that. I would be too. This isn't what I'm speaking of. My route puts me at several intersections where I don't move AT ALL for 4-6 minutes at a time. It's simply how the lights time out at that level of traffic volume. So I know I'll be siting in one spot, with my engine turned off, btw, for at least four minutes or more. That's when I text or check emails and do other stuff. Not while I'm crawling along, but when I'm stopped and not moving.

If you can't appreciate the difference in those two scenarios, then I'd suggest you're actively not doing so, looking to be angry.

DP. You are a moron who is danger to all of us. How stupid can you really be? You are the first one to see someone moving and zoom and rear end the car in front of us. Bcs you saw the cars move, but paid no attention that they were in the turn lane. You are the one that never goes as the light turns green, because you miss it turning green. You are the one that is pi**ed when people honk at you and then you go as slow as you can and on purpose makes 20 cars not turn or go on green. I can appreciate that you are as stupid and as reckless as it gets. You are too stupid to know that you are stupid and dangerous.

+1. And the claim that the engine is off is the supreme certification of her stupidity. A, you really don't, and B, that wastes more gas.

Not everyone drives a piece of crap 1995 Dodge Caravan like you do. My car shuts the engine off automatically when I'm stopped. If that wasted more gas, do you really think car manufacturers would have that feature?

What a dumbass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say it depends on how you define "drive".

If you're moving, then I take issue with that. That's a problem. That's compromising safety.

If you're sitting in traffic, crawling and stopping over and over... that's not driving. That's moving a few feet every minute.

My commute is 3 miles. But traffic is horrendous. It can sometimes take 45'minutes to go THREE miles. I only drive it during bad weather or when I'm going someplace right after work, the est of the time I bike if I'm in a hurry, or I walk.


But I refuse to accept that me texting or doing anything else on my phone is a danger to anyone when I'm sitting in traffic having not moved for four minutes.

These stupid zero tolerance policies are just as dumb as the ones they have for kids in school, where a 14 year old girl gets suspended for "drug possession" because she has Midol.

It's stupid.

I was rear-ended in my car while pregnant by a woman in stop and go traffic you described. Put your effing phone down.

First of all, if you were rear ended, then the traffic was obviously moving at least intermittently. You have a right to be angry about that. I would be too. This isn't what I'm speaking of. My route puts me at several intersections where I don't move AT ALL for 4-6 minutes at a time. It's simply how the lights time out at that level of traffic volume. So I know I'll be siting in one spot, with my engine turned off, btw, for at least four minutes or more. That's when I text or check emails and do other stuff. Not while I'm crawling along, but when I'm stopped and not moving.

If you can't appreciate the difference in those two scenarios, then I'd suggest you're actively not doing so, looking to be angry.

I, for one, am glad she has her 5 minutes to go over her important surgery specifics. Nothing more important than that! Also, since her car is turned off, that's super-safe! It's not like she just has to press the accelerator to go again.