Tony Long writes:
Why is it that only a handful of states have made it illegal to talk on the phone while driving? Driving is not something you do as an afterthought, OK? You're hurtling down the road behind the wheel of a 3,000-pound vehicle (more like 7,000 pounds in that idiotic destroyer of worlds, the Hummer) and it doesn't take a physicist to figure out that if you hit a human being -- astride a motorcycle, riding a bicycle or on foot -- you're going to do some damage.
And it doesn't take a rocket scientist or an IT guy or a professional poker player to understand that anything you do -- like talking on the phone -- that distracts you from the business of driving increases the chances of causing a serious accident.
See also: Cartalk's "Drive Now, Talk Later" campaign.
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