How stupid can one be ????
What is wrong with these people who post here? Eating while driving is certainly not distracting !. I used to do this in the seventies on my way from job to attend evening college. It was a mechanical function that your body executed with out requiring any use of conscious mind.
Talking can be distracting, especially when one can't do so without moving their head to look at the person addressed. I used to put on some 20,000 miles annually with only weekend and long trips. I was never comfortable holding a conversation while going 75 / 80 mph on a busy highway.
Talking on the mobile phone is an altogether different beast. In a study in UK they have found that 60 % of all road accidents could be attributed to the driver talking on a cell phone while driving. They also found that when a person talks on the phone he / she develops tunnel vision and loses ALL peripheral vision which is so critical for safe driving,
Texting takes the cake. You literally have to take your eyes off the road to see what you are typing. I have yet to see a single TOUCH TYPIST so far as cell phones are concerned.
In my opinion talking on the cell phone or texting should be banned and be treated at par with any other moving violation with heavy fines and losing one's license for repeat offenders.
BTW there is something else that does not make sense to me. If I do not use seat belts I am NOT increasing the risk of an accident nor am I becoming a danger to others on the road. I am doing so only to myself and only in the event of an accident. Texting while driving drastically increases the risk of an accident and it also endangers others on the road. There is no opposition to the first but stupidly enough against the latter.
Or perhaps this only happens in America !!!
