tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post1848359858576239893..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: Texting and going don't mixBarry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-34049705848493565292008-09-23T22:26:00.000-04:002008-09-23T22:26:00.000-04:00It'll never happen. Americans are too obsessed wi...It'll never happen. Americans are too obsessed with their "right" to behave like idiots, danger be damned. I only wish it was these people who paid the price of their stupidity, but it rarely is. It's the rest of us. But life is ever thus.<BR/><BR/>(And, ahem, I don't even own a cellphone. What a pretentious, self-aggrandizing little gadget.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-54752922605442888542008-09-23T18:57:00.000-04:002008-09-23T18:57:00.000-04:00Yow! Good point.Which is why I say that we should...Yow! Good point.<BR/><BR/>Which is why I say that we should stop banning specific things, and instead make it generally illegal to do things that distract you from driving, while you're driving. And that'd include yelling at the kids in the back seat.Barry Leibahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-66522700002336145612008-09-23T18:53:00.000-04:002008-09-23T18:53:00.000-04:00I put the emphasis on a different word:“temporaril...I put the emphasis on a different word:<BR/><BR/>“temporarily banned the use of all <I>cellular</I> devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.”<BR/><BR/>In other words, they're free to use their GameBoy, iPod Touch (even with the WiFi turned on)...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05459244944209591455noreply@blogger.com