Come on this is an easy one. I wrote about distractions while driving a few weeks back. (See Distractions While Driving in NH). Virginia wants to ban texting while driving. They should. It is so much more dangerous than just talking on your cell phone.
It’s called “DWT,” or driving while texting on a cell phone, and state legislators in Virginia want to outlaw the practice.
Virginia’s General Assembly is considering legislation so tough that even texting while driving an electric wheelchair would be forbidden, along with a ban on the practice while driving a bicycle, a motorcycle, and a moped, too.
“Texting belongs in its own category,” Lon Anderson, an AAA official, told The Washington Post. “It is extremely dangerous. There is no place for driving and texting.”
While talking into a cell phone while driving is often frowned upon and has been banned in some states, texting while driving has been gaining more attention from law enforcement officials and legislators in recent months. Earlier attempts by Virginia legislators to ban cell phone use while driving failed, but there seems to be new impetus behind the drive to outlaw texting.
The deaths of five high school graduates in a car accident last summer is suspected to have occurred when the driver was texting on her cell phone.
Source: InformationWeek.com
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