The prohibition against reading text messages while driving gained relatively easy passage in the House of Delegates on Thursday. But the proposed new traffic violation continued to be a point of contention in the Senate, where Republicans proposed six amendments that failed to pass before the measure won preliminary approval.
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When you eat, you automatically know where you're mouth is, so you don't need to see, same with drinking.
ReplyDeleteWhen you read a text you have to physically take you're eyes off the road to read the test, and if its a LONG text, say bye bye to you're life.
I support this law, obviously.
You physically take yours eyes off the road when you change the radio. You physically take the eyes off the road when you reach into the bag to grab your sandwich, unwrap, and dig for that fry in the bottom of the bag. You physically take your eyes off the road to feed your child in the back seat. You physically take your eyes off the road to change your ipod or cd. You take your eyes off the road to look at the passenger you're talking to. This law is ridiculous. To single out one thing doesn't make any sense. Also, the majority of tests show that holding the phone isn't the main problem. The mere distraction of talking on the phone is what causes accidents. So from now on, don't talk in the car at all.
ReplyDeleteAll rides should be silent.
The answer is simple.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to know about God, go to church. If you want to meet him in person, text and drive at the same time.
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ReplyDeleteYou should have given the billboard credit.
This proposed law will not stop anyone from doing whatever they want.
It will however, generate revenue for the state which is really the main purpose for the law, if passed.
We have more laws than people.
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ReplyDeleteYou the man(or woman)!!!
You got it!!!
this law is discriminatory....if you can afford a new, usually expensive, vehicle that has intergrated phone bluetooth, you get your texts and they are displayed in the instrument cluster or gps screen and if it's really expensive they are converted to voice messages played thru the audio system...those that cannot afford vehicles with these features will get pulled over, sublected to K9 scans/DUI screening. The rich will continue to get away with whatever they want. Oh, did I forget to say that the majority of the people that have vehicles with these features are wealthy white republicans?
ReplyDeletelol We need Dr. Phil or somebody to counsel some of these posters.
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