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Originally Posted by SirBrass
Well, like I said, I don't think we need stricter "texting laws", but simple enforcement of distracted driving laws, which are already on the books. Texting is just one subset of distracted driving. Mommy reaching back to hand junior a toy while she's driving the suburban across 3 lanes of traffic while yakking without handsfree (despite the car almost certainly having a bluetooth handsfree function) on her iPhone is even worse.
I don't mean to be sexist, but the subset of drivers I see who are most often oblivious to conditions b/c of that damned phone are women. I do see men do it as well, but not nearly as many as I see women. And women in big SUVs are even worse.
One reason I went from the Forester to the WRX was simply a HP upgrade (and to go to a manual, so I could downshift into a more powerful gear, unlike the utter slush the 4EAT in my Forester) to escape getting trapped in traffic near these idiots.
I'm constantly on the lookout for them in the BRZ. They are a menace and the biggest danger to the continued structural integrity of my and my brz's skeletal systems.
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Don't even worry about the women comment. I say myself that women can't drive. (Most of the time they can't...)
Yeah,I feel rules aren't enforced at all.
I see people texting/running reds all the time with cops right there, and the cop does absolutely nothing.
No wonder everyone thinks my generation is so entitled, everyone is on their iPhone or whatever. I live near an elementary school and it's....Bad. People texting and driving, they don't even see you until you honk at them, and usually by then an accident occurs (knock on wood,none yet.) Plus the added danger of the kids walking around.
90% it isn't even important conversations,it's just casual texting.