(The Takeaway) Why isn’t there a better way to text while driving? That’s a question that Joel Johnson, editor at large of Gizmodo.com asked in a recent column.
So far, he’s received over 500 responses to his column, most of which suggest that people who text and drive should simply give it up, use the phone instead, or die behind the wheel because they deserve to. However, Johnson insists that, in a world where most people text and drive, his question is valid. If we can’t stop it, why not make it safer?
What do you think? Should texting while driving be outlawed or be made safer?
Susan Kuchinskas also weighs in. A freelance journalist who writes about connected car technology for Scientific American and Telematics Update, she sees both the value and flaws in making texting safer.
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One of the commenters on the Gizmodo column nailed it.
“That’s like asking if there is a better way to set terminally ill children on fire”
You’re endangering other people’s lives for the most petty and selfish of reasons. I don’t want people who text behind the wheel to die in a fire, I want them to die 3 weeks after being in a fire and suffering burns over 90% of their bodies.