Two RVs hit head on - Hwy 49 in California

DrewE wrote:

hohenwald48 wrote:

I wonder when something will be done about all the cell phone/texting distracted drivers on the road these days? How many have to die before our legislators say "enough" to the cell phone lobby? It would only take a simple software patch to at least disable texting when a modern GPS enabled cell phone is going more than x MPH. But that might hurt phone sales for Apple and others.

Grossman's Misquote of H. L. Mencken (from Murphey's Law, book two):
"Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers."

Tying phone function to the phone's speed seems to me to be an example of this, and one that's often suggested as a way to eliminate this sort of distracted driving. The problem is that there are many common occasions where one may be traveling at speed but not driving: as a passenger in a car, or bus, or train, for instance; and at such times texting is a perfectly valid and safe thing to do.

True. But until someone comes up with a solution to that issue why don't we save a few lives in the meantime. Nobody really "needs" to text, ever, even when they are a passenger. We went for centuries without it. I can always spot the folks in front of me who are on the phone. Their speed varies up and down about 10-15 miles every 30 seconds or so.

Couple of months ago a young lady was driving down the highway about a mile from my house and veered across the center line. Killed her and her 2 year old baby daughter in the backseat. Investigation revealed she was posting something on Facebook at the time of the accident. While travelling at 60 MPH.