Half Informed

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Source Article: NYTimes.com

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate”.

My boy Obama has taken some pretty drastic measures in the name of safety. Federal employees may not text while driving. And they also plan to extend this to professional drivers, or as they so eloquently refer to them as ‘truckers’.

The ban took effect before the ink could dry. But this one just looks like a lot of common sense.

This transport collided with a school bus when the driver of the transport was texting

Everything except the Professional Drivers bit. Denying them texting even while not driving would be cutting off a valuable life line they have to their families.

Texting has become more common than phone calls. They can reserve rooms ahead of time with their Web Enabled Black Berries and iPhones, spank it to porn before they got to bed in their sleepers thus maintaining the family unit.

Apparently the governing body of motor carriers still needs to define ‘Texting’.

And as for drivers bypassing the warnings on their tracking systems. The fix is simple, wire it to the transmission and if the vehicle is moving kill the screen.

Talking on a cell while driving is nowhere near as dangerous as texting while driving. The only people I know that can text while keep one eye on the road are those with lazy eyes. Finally after all those years they get some vindication.

If this is done right it will end up saving a lot of lives and hopefully in a few years anyone using a gadget while driving will get looks from people like they were pounding a fifth of whiskey while on the road.