Do you text while driving?

[ChumpDumper]

I've been in enough serious crashes to know better than to text.

Or drink.

Etc.

[angelbelow]

I consider myself a damn good driver. Not only do I study the fundamentals but I stay up to date with new laws. This is all because I simply love to drive. My reaction time and ability to mul ask is also very good. But I would never recommend talking on the phone or texting while driving. I hate it when people do it. Even though i'm confident with my driving skills I still feel like that I can't control my car the way i want to when I text or drive so I simply don't do it.

Further I believe that I am an above average driver, so if I don't feel confident when driving and using my cell phone I don't trust anyone else doing it.

[CuckingFunt]

If sitting in the Starbucks drive-thru counts as driving, then I've done it twice. Otherwise, I would never even consider it. I don't talk on the phone when driving, either.

[Mister Sinister]

Not unless I'm at a stoplight, and if the light goes green before I finish, Waspinator (my phone) goes back in the cupholder.

[cherylsteele]

I don't text in or out of my car. I just don't like to text period. I do not talk on the phone while driving either, I either pull over, or wait until I get where I am going or find a parking area that is safe.

[Spur|n|Austin]

Yes but I'm a superb driver.

[J.T.]

No I do not. I can't wait for a law to be passed to where you aren't allowed to text while driving. I have almost been involved in 3 wrecks due to dumbasses who weren't paying attention to the road. That gets on my nerves.

Thanks to touchscreen phones I don't think any law like that will ever be passed unless they ban talking on your cell phone while driving too. For real, how'd you like to get pulled over because a cop thought you were texting while driving when all you were doing is scrolling through your iPod playlist and it turns out you have a warrant out for some ticket you never paid so you do four days in the slammer because you wanted to hear Mmmbop while you were driving back from Taco Bell? that.

Anyway, CH lost about half of his man points if the first thing he thought after seeing this video was to run to SpursTalk and make a very soccer mom-ish post about how he's turned over a new leaf and is going to put the phone down behind the wheel. It's like saying I quit cigarettes, weed and all other drugs today and am never going to touch them again in my life.

[J.T.]

After reviewing the rest of this thread, it seems SpursTalk either:

A) Has lost its balls
B) Can't mul ask behind the wheel (it's not that hard people)
C) Had its mojo stolen by evil space aliens
D) Sold out to The Man like the hippies
E) All of the above

For real people. I drive stoned or tripping four out of seven days a week minimum and I haven't been in an accident since I was 18. Grow a pair and get a touchscreen full keyboard phone if this video scared you.

[desflood]

I drive stoned or tripping four out of seven days a week minimum

So you're a moron. Congratulations.

[J.T.]

So you're a moron. Congratulations.

I could win the Indy 500 with a .12 BAC. Once you get to be as good at driving as I am, little things like intoxication and text messaging become non factors. whottt and JoeChalupa can attest to my amazing DUI skills.

[desflood]

I could win the Indy 500 with a .12 BAC. Once you get to be as good at driving as I am, little things like intoxication and text messaging become non factors.

Oh, so you're an egotistical moron. Even better!

I don't know anything about whottt, but somehow I always figured JC to be a family man who would know better. How disappointing. Probably stupid of me, also, to assume something like that. Well, so, we're both morons

[Evil Angel]

Here is a word doc with state info from http://www.aaapublicaffairs.com/Main...bCategoryID=35.

http://www.aaapublicaffairs.com/Asse...rivingLaws.doc

To those self proclaimed mul askers, sooner or later your time will come. I just hope not at the expense of innocent life.
You may think you drive fine, but the split second you're not looking, a vehicle, kid or animal may be in your cross hairs. Not your fault of course. I mean you just didn't see them coming at you, right???

[J.T.]

Well, so, we're both morons

Speak for yourself, brah. I'm no moron. Just someone who can handle his behind the weel after a joint or on a few hits of cid.

[desflood]

Just someone who can handle his behind the weel after a joint or on a few hits of cid.

Dear boy, I'm not your brah. Just call me sis. And it's hard to believe that a man who can't spell the word wheel can do something as complex as drive properly while stoned

[manufan10]

I do it. I don't stare down at my phone while I'm texting either. I know where the numbers/letters are. I just glance at the phone to make sure I'm spelling right. It's nothing different than changing the radio stations, checking your mirrors, looking down at your speedometer, or messing with the air conditioner.

[z0sa]

Just call instead of text you stupid s. There absolutely NOTHING unsafe about driving and talking on the phone if you're not a re .

[J.T.]

Dear boy, I'm not your brah. Just call me sis. And it's hard to believe that a man who can't spell the word wheel can do something as complex as drive properly while stoned

Ah. Female. It all makes sense now.

[desflood]

Ah. Female. It all makes sense now.

Which part makes sense, exactly? The not being stupid enough to drive while stoned or texting part, or the being angry at people who endanger me while I'm driving part?

[Cry Havoc]

After reviewing the rest of this thread, it seems SpursTalk either:

A) Has lost its balls
B) Can't mul ask behind the wheel (it's not that hard people)
C) Had its mojo stolen by evil space aliens
D) Sold out to The Man like the hippies
E) All of the above

For real people. I drive stoned or tripping four out of seven days a week minimum and I haven't been in an accident since I was 18. Grow a pair and get a touchscreen full keyboard phone if this video scared you.

You can have my man points. I'll keep my intelligence, which evidently waved "bye-bye" to you long ago. Thanks.

[J.T.]

You can have my man points. I'll keep my intelligence, which evidently waved "bye-bye" to you long ago. Thanks.

I like how driving while stoned somehow equates to me having no intelligence. What a .

[Dex]

Figures that the guy defending texting and driving is also defending trippin' and driving. That should tell you something right there.

[J.T.]

Which part makes sense, exactly? The not being stupid enough to drive while stoned or texting part, or the being angry at people who endanger me while I'm driving part?

More along the lines of thinking people driving while stoned are endangering you in the first place. We're not like those crazy DWI folk with an open Budweiser in the cup holder.

[J.T.]

Figures that the guy defending texting and driving is also defending trippin' and driving. That should tell you something right there.

The zero tickets or accidents in over seven years says something too. "You're all full of ."

[desflood]

The zero tickets or accidents in over seven years says something too.

It says, "I haven't been caught or killed myself yet so it must be okay."

[J.T.]

It says, "I haven't been caught or killed myself yet so it must be okay."

That would've happened by now if I'm truly as dumb as all of you people seem to think I am. Next.