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by: WskyTngoFxtrt Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 9:04am  
Texas House approves bill to ban texting while driving
 
I hope it passes!!
abc13.com/politics/t exas-house-approves- bill-to-ban-texting- while-driving/5 4951
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ctl74 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 9:06am  
Good - bc it is so completely stupid to think that one can drive and text. Although, now to see this law get enforced... 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 9:07am  
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 9:19am  
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thegoodwife Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 9:29am  
How about my individual freedom of not getting injured or maimed or killed by some *** wipe texting while speeding down the highway!
I would rather see someone talking on their phone then texting.
 
I believe  it would be a hard law to enforce!
 
Over the last 30 yrs. we have been exposed to the evils of drinking & driving, and supposedly educated,  laws put in place but it still does not stop people. So what is the answer? 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 9:40am  
Maybe within the decade, they will ban talking on the phone while driving, except for hands-free.  About 90% of the people that do something stupid while driving are on their phones. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 10:06am  
Maybe within the decade, they will ban talking on the phone while driving,
 
@Retired_Engineer: Talking on a hand-held phone has been banned in the UK for years.  When my in-laws visit they sort of freak out when they see a driver on their phone.  It's an automatic fine there with the potential to lose your license.
I'm a pretty staunch libertarian and generally want the govt to stay out of my business but the statistics show the danger and I'd support a ban on texting and calls while driving. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 11:13am  
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 11:15am  
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 11:16am  
It passed a few years ago (2011 I think) but then Gov Perry vetoed it because of the uproar over individual freedoms. I don't recall reading Gov Abbotts position on this but I would imagine it's the same.
 
@Stealth83:
 

I guess he forgot that little liberty like the right to life, as in not being killed bc someone was texting. Idiot
 
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 11:18am  
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 11:18am  
In fact just driving here to work I just passed at least five drivers texting on their phones and sort of weaving in the lanes. The State needs to pass something now. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 11:25am  
The fix would be simple if we used the auto industry to block phones the same way they stop you from messing with your GPS when the vehicle is in motion.
 
If new cars implemented this, it would be only a matter of years before texting, calling and driving never happened simultaneously.
 
If the Feds did this, the states would have to accept it...it would be much like direction signals.
 
Oops, some people never learned to use those either. Bad example here in the good ol'e USA.
 
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 11:30am  
Some newer phones have voice texting. They should make that mandatory on every phone!  We might need a new arm of the government to do it.  Emoticon 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 12:15pm  
I have voice texting. You have to speak slowly, because auto correct completely re-writes your message! Lol! 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 26, '15 12:33pm  
I have voice texting. You have to speak slowly, because auto correct completely re-writes your message! Lol!
@justanirishgirl: I will usually text my DH with the voice texting if I'm at a light or sitting at a stand still in traffic.  Some of the things I send him are hilarious.  He tried to tell me one that the chairs were killing his back and not helping at a meeting and it came out these beam BBC hair share not helping.  I had no idea what he was talking about..lol 4951
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