Comments on: Missouri: Cell phone laws, legislation

By: Mike Becker

Mike Becker — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:42:42 +0000

We do NOT need more laws for texting and driving. We have a law in place– Careless and imprudent— . This law covers texting and any other dumb thing people do while driving. Quit passing more laws, enforce the ones we have!!!!!

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:50:58 +0000

I’m just frustrated they are only targeting one distraction. If distractions are dangerous, then it should not be limited to one means–all distractions should carry the same consequences, from texting to using an iPad to putting on make-up. It’s wrong to single out one and not the others because it dilutes the reason behind the ban.

By: Claudia Knudten

Claudia Knudten — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:29:46 +0000

texting while driving is just dumb, maybe they should do a study of the IQ’s of the average person who engages in this! Car and driver used 2 professional drivers in a study and proved that their reaction times while texting were 8x what they were normally, they compared this to the reaction times of the same drivers legally drunk, which was only 4x normal. Wake up people!

The argument of government controlling our actions blah, blah… is completely without merit. Should we then be free to commit homicide, rape, robbery (maybe steal the cell phones of the idiots texting while they drive).

If you hit and harm me, or someone I care about texting while driving (or doing some other stupid thing), you better have a damn good lawyer because I WILL sue you for every penny I can get. How would you feel if your child, sister, brother, mother or father were the one killed? How would feel if you kill someone else’s loved one – and you live – because you’re texting and driving? And then you see them in court, and they get to give a victim impact statement…. that will be fun (only if you are a sociopath).

PS Both the prosecutors and civil attorneys are getting cell phone records for drivers involved in injury/fatality accidents. A recent test case in MO charged a driver texting involved in a fatal crash with homicide after his cell phone records proved he was texting.

At least give me a logical argument and back it up with some facts… don’t just quote some historical antigovernment rhetoric …. that doesn’t make you intelligent – it just proves you know how to copy.

By: PJ

PJ — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:34:54 +0000

My brother works for the state hiway dept in another state, and has had many close calls from drivers. One in particular was a woman using her Ipad while driving, what was so important that it could not wait for her to wait? My phone is off while driving, friends and family know that, I check in when I am not behind the wheel to check msgs or return calls. I know this will proably not mean a thing to some but it means a lot to me when my sibling is out there putting his life on the line on the hiway!!!!

By: Harold Eugene Johnson

Harold Eugene Johnson — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:33:12 +0000

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, a 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell, the individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity.

Currently, the state wants to extend their control of humanity … to cell phone text messages. And, while some people seem to agree, it is time to remember … “The price of freedom … isn’t free”.

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — quote from The Life of Reason (1905-1906) by George Santayana

Reference, also, The Noble Experiment (1920 – 1933): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

By: That Boz

That Boz — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:36:52 +0000

All cell phone usage should be banned while driving. My dad taught me to drive like everyone else was a nut. In other words, drive defensively which means I am aware of everything a half a mile ahead of me. Impossible to do if ones attenton is on a cell phone.

By: Brianne

Brianne — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:47:28 +0000

I think texting while driving needs to be gotten rid of all together! It puts all of us at risk!

28% of the car accidents have been caused by texting! Thats unacceptable!

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:44:21 +0000

My Uncle was just killed in an auto accident by texting young adults under the age of 20.

I hope they make an example of the situation and press on so more lives are not lost in this manner.