How dangerous is cell phone usage while driving?

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A: "Texting is the scariest thing. Cell phone usage should be handsfree."

Russel Hohlt, Sugar Land, physician

A: "I think it's very dangerous. Myself, I don't answer it while I'm driving."

- Carmen Nunez, Victoria, retired

A: "I think it's very dangerous. Your full attention is not on driving. You're not concentrating."

Rose Mary Sutton, Victoria, retired

A: "I think it's really dangerous. I've seen so many wrecks almost caused while people are talking on the phone."

Jaclyn Jeffers, Victoria, magazine publisher


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  • I classify all driving cell phone usage as potentially dangerous. Dangerous cell phone usage requires three things: a driver, the act of driving, and a phone. You can't govern or control the first two in this respect, so the only other factor that you can control is the phone. No matter what laws you try to pass or enforce, cell phones are simply too easy to use - people will continue to use them as long as they feel they'll get away with it. As long as they get away with it, there will be car wrecks and fatalities.

    If only there was technology available to install a device in steering wheels that would temporarily disable all cell phones and texting devices within 2 feet of the steering wheel. Maybe this exists already - I haven't heard of it.

    If that works, we can then work on disabling all idiots, jerks, dopes, punks, and thugs within two feet of the steering wheel.

    October 29, 2009 at 3:03 p.m.
  • Some people cannot multitask, but they still issue a drivers license to 80 something's that repeatedly endanger lives on the road. Once the status quo has been reached on deaths there will be a new law of the land, but the lawmakers here are the insurance companies. Every one uses a cell phone these days even the ones that will eventually enforce the laws that ban it.

    October 27, 2009 at 8:16 p.m.
  • National teens don't text and drive week nov.22-28

    October 27, 2009 at 6:52 p.m.
  • It is totally dangerous to talk on a cell phone while driving, I don't care how careful of a driver you think you are it distracts you. I'm talking from experience.

    October 27, 2009 at 12:34 a.m.