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    Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
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    Image of DixonCyparissus DixonCyparissus
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    It seems like a rather flawed test. If i text while i'm driving i usually wait until i have space around me or i'm stopped at a light; i choose the propper moment.
    You can't exactly do that with being drunk. You're still drunk the entire drive.
    There's definitely not enough information in the test to claim driving drunk is safer.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    06/25/09

    @DixonCyparissus: This sounds a bit like a rationalization.
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    Image of TheGuinnessTooth TheGuinnessTooth
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    I wonder what MADD has to say about this.
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    Image of Michael Belisle Michael Belisle
    06/25/09

    @TheGuinnessTooth: Perhaps something along the lines of "Drunk driving and texting while driving are both unsafe driving practices"?
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    Image of crankcase - always getting the shaft crankcase - always getting the shaft
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    What did we do before cell phones?


    Seems every blithering idiot is having such "important calls" and shouldn't be bothered with such frivolities as driving.
    I hate my cell phone, though it's a necessary evil - I don't have a land line.
    Probably the only way to solve the problem of texting while driving is to eliminate automatic trannies.

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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    06/25/09

    @crankcase - always getting the shaft: I like the way you think.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    06/25/09

    @crankcase - always getting the shaft: I just (wait for it) don't answer it if it rings while I'm driving. If it's important, they'll leave a message. If I absolutely have to answer it, I'm gonna have to pull over to dig the phone out of my pocket anyway, I might as well stay pulled ver until teh call is over.
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    Image of 74ta455 74ta455
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    Nice to see some data on this, but it's as simple as driving tired, drunk or distracted is driving impaired. I'm not sure how I feel about making any of it illegal based on some arbitrary threshold. Texting will probably be deemed legal if you use a hands free keyboard.


    In other news, stabbing self with steak knife less dangerous than cutting head off with machete.

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    06/25/09

    @74ta455: "Texting will probably be deemed legal if you use a hands free keyboard."


    I really hope this is poorly labeled sarcasm.

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    06/25/09

    @74ta455:

    I'm a lousy typist. I eagerly await the introduction of the hands-free keyboard.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    I just came back from a weekend trip to Memphis (yes, a vacation, believe it or not) and the most eye-opening thing I saw was in Mississippi, which is the only state in the nation that allows open containers--for the driver--while driving, provided you're not over the legal limit.


    I'm totally cool with the idea there, but I highly doubt most of these folks drinking tall boys while driving are under the legal limit. It puts all the burden on the cops, but very little on the citizens.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    You can spot a cellphone talker a mile away on the highway. They are always slightly out of sync with the flow of traffic.

    Just last night grandpa in a minivan was completely absorbed in a long cell phone conversation; he failed to notice his lane was ending, in spite of warning signs, and even as he was merging into my car and I blew the horn, he hardly reacted. He hung out in the passing lane for another 15 miles, oblivious to the cars trying to get around him.

    I can't help but overhear cell phone calls all the time. I see people leaving work, sitting at the light, cellphone to ear. Easily 90% of what they talk about is incredibly stupid inane stuff. I think cell phones should have a one minute, one number limit if you're driving--enough to say, "There's a wreck, I'm late."

    And I thnk if you are talking on a cell--or even worse--texting--any penalty you get for speeding or accident should be at least doubled. There's just no excuse for this idiocy.
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    This gave me a great idea. One of the curses at LeMons should be doing a keg-stand while driving.
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    Image of rkwadd rkwadd
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    I'm glad the commentariat enthusiastically support drunk driving. WON"T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/25/09

    @rkwadd: OK, let's buy them drinks too.
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    Mythbusters did it.
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    Image of 1000songs 1000songs
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    Is masturbating while driving akin to texting ([nwitimes.com]) or do you need a full keyboard for the two to be comparable?
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    06/25/09

    @1000songs:

    Put the phone on vibrate and perform the comparison test yourself.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    I'd venture that properly pouring a 20-year-old Westmalle into a champagne flute while driving is probably the most dangerous of all, never mind the ABV.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/25/09

    @Ash78: Pfft. Only mini-ballers drive and pour. Even pimps have an assistant pimp that will do the pouring for them.


    Now where'd I put my baby powder?

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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    I still carry a pager. If you want to talk to me you can page me and I will call you back at my earliest convenience. Not while I'm driving.


    I take a lot of heat for still carrying a pager...

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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/25/09

    @mytdawg: And people really love it when I leave them a message and can't remember my cell phone number for them to call me back - Once I'm static. I just don't use the damn thing.
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    Image of benrobNU benrobNU
    06/25/09

    @mytdawg: Do you access the closest pay phone to return the call?
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/25/09

    @benrobNU: There's been a couple times I went looking for one. They're pretty much gone...
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/25/09

    @mytdawg: Do you also pack a lot of heat? Your answer alone will be the basis of what I assume to be your occupation.
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    Image of SerialThriller SerialThriller
    06/25/09

    @A strolling player: Relax, I'm sure he's a doctor.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/25/09

    @Don Juan Placencia del Fuego Seat Alhambra Caballero Vega C...: Never had a firearm. I'm not the kind of person that should have a gun and ammo anywhere near each other.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/25/09

    @SerialThriller: Worse than that, SysAdmin.
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    Image of pres pres
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    Nothing helps Car and Driver go down more smoothly than a handle of Beam. Thanks for reminding me.
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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    Comparison of "driving while drunk" to "driving while getting road head"?
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    06/25/09

    @Gearhead_42: I think that may be our next comparison.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/25/09

    @Gearhead_42: How do I get in on this field test? It's purely a magnanimous move on my part, I swear.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    06/25/09

    @mytdawg: Do you wear dentures?
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/25/09

    @Twitterin' Ted Kennedy: Not yet but I've had people threaten to knock my teeth down my throat...
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/25/09

    @mytdawg: Hahahahaha
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/25/09

    @Gearhead_42: That's great.
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    06/25/09

    @Gearhead_42:

    I'm pretty sure my texting ability is greatly compromised while I'm delivering road-head...
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    Image of RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment
    06/25/09

    In reply to Drunk Driving Safer Than Texting While Driving
    I'd also like to see them compare drunk "good drivers" to the avg bad driver, or elderly person. I'm positive up to a good level of drinking, beyond .08, I'd still outperform a good portion of the population. This shows that a license is too easy to get, but also too easy to lose (for DUI). Now, if you are a bad driver and drunk.....
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/25/09

    @RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment: Probably not a popular slant regardless of truth. I tend to drive fairly aggressively when sober. I don't go cutting people off and stuff but I don't use my brakes a lot for cornering and such when I got open road - downshift, corner, accelerate. After a couple of beers it's the speed limit, signal, check both ways, complete the turn, back to speed limit etc. It slows my roll to use the vernacular of today's youth.
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