What is more dangerous: DWI or DWTexting

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I have to say that as long as the person isnt completely hammered where he cant see, driving while texting is much more dangerous. Why there isnt a law to prevent this, I do not know. I used to drive and text. Stupid, I almost got in a wreck doing it and stopped. IMO, it is more dangerous because it takes your eyes completely off the road during high traffic times. At least if you are DWI, you can see the road at all times and it is usually a low traffic time of day, late at night.
 
I agree, but you may have missed out on the fact that MANY cities have already outlawed it. My wife and I have a code where I respond to her texts while driving by just hitting letters I don't even look at. Gibberish is our code for "Not Now!" I would like to see a single hotkey on my phone to do that.
 
Both are dangerous, but DWT is more frequently abused in my experience. But then, I avoid the streets late on weekends. It seems a day doesn't go by that I don't encounter a driver significanlty distracted in some way by their phone, whether talking, texting, or whatever. Doing anything but talking is outlawed in Austin IIRC, but even that is often a serious distraction in my experience.
 
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I wasn't just whistling in the dark. I have actually sent that sentiment to ATT. It wouldn't even have to be any different that just muting your phone in church or the courtroom. Just be able to tell your phone to respond with a message that your are in silent mode when you get in the car.

I don't think I'd be able to get away with telling my wife to **** off, though. I did that once and it ended up meaning that I had to go **** myself.
 
Dont know if i want to start a unique thread on this but I text/read email/read tweets when in super heavy traffic.......like a intersection that takes 3 light changes to get through. the phone is on the wheel where i can clearly see the car ahead of me. the car is never in motion until i set it on the console to creep forward. Ive never been honked at because i didnt see traffic moving, but i have gotten some dirty looks.

Is that really "texting while driving"?
 
if you have some money and can afford the new mercedes suv, they have a feature that will read your texts to you.
 
What's mroe dangerous, a 44 magnum gunshot to the dome, or being runover by a BNSF train?


Seriously????? Wow.
 
As I was driving to work today I had to stop for a minute. A woman approaching me had a cigarette in one hand and a cell phone in the other and had damned near stopped in the middle of the road. I wanted her back on her side of the road so I could continue forward on a residential street plenty wide for two cars to pass. She had this puzzled look on her face like she was trying to do a rubic's cube in a hurry. I frowned at her (hey in my maturity I no longer honk or use hand signals at other drivers). She glared back at me like it was my fault. Hey it was God that gave her only two hands, two eyes and one brain.
 
We were driving through Corpus Christi in September. It was midday with moderate traffic and pouring down rain but traffic on the interstate was still moving at about 60-65mph. There was this lady in an SUV in the middle lane that fluctuated between 50-70mph the entire time, occasionally drifting to either side of the lane. Obviously this was a huge deal as it completely locked down all three lanes of traffic because nobody knew what she was going to do next. I finally managed to pass her and she was looking down at her cell phone in her lap, hands on her phone, driving with her knee. She also had two small kids in car seats in the back.

I've been known to text or even surf the web at a red light or during bumper-to-bumper traffic on Mopac, but doing that at 60mph on a crowded highway in a downpour is pure insanity.
 
Drinking and texting is far more dangerous than the other combinations discussed.
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If you are obviously drunk others will avoid you on the road, but if you're texting then others will pull up next to you and glare in order to make their point and then you may drift into them and TWFTSU LOL.
 
Simply talking on the phone is worse, I was at a stop sign and someone walking while talking on a phone walked straight into my car, funniest damn thing ever.
 
Dwi laws are foolish in their current state. A more fair system would be the following

0.08-0.1 Ticket

0.1-.12 Heavy Fine, car towed, night in the drunk tank

over .12 What we have now for DWI. manditory jail after the second one.


Im not trying to make light of the fact that you can be impaired at lower levels of consumption, Its just at the same or lower levels as sleep deprivation, cold medicine consumption and cell phone use.
 
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