Let me start by saying I am sorry to bring this up again if it has been covered before but I need to vent. It never ceases to amaze me how absolutely stupid and self-centered it is to text while driving. Today, with all the publicity on the number of accidents and deaths caused by texting while driving, it is amazing how STUPID some people are. Everyday on my route to and from work I see people tailgating at 75-80 MPH in rush hour traffic holding the steering wheel with their knees so they have their hands free to text!!!! I have seen so many, way too many close calls and collisions due to texting. A local teenagerin my town recently died due to a car wreck. Her phone records show she was texting at the time of the collision, such a waste of a precious life. The state of NY has installed "text stop" signs for all the rest areas. We really needed to spend thousands of tax payer's dollars to tell people what common sense should tell them? Does the state actually think people will pay attention to these brilliant new signs???? These idiot texters don't pay attention to the law, forget the signs. The problem is texting while driving is socially acceptable, people look the other way. If every text while driving jerk got a dirty look, comment or gestures (not obscene but just a gesture to keep ones eyes on the road), maybe it would decline. Instead we rely on the police to catch the offenders. NY state has significantly raised the penalty for getting caught texting while driving but I doubt it has made a difference. The idiot texters put themselves at risk along with the everyone around them. If and when one of thees jerks runs over me while on the bike, the first thing i want my family to do is to obtain the phone records of the driver than ran me over to build a criminal and civil case against them. It is crap like this that made me give up commuting to work on the Busa, if i do ride to work, I shift my commuting times to off peak. Observing someone texting while driving annoys the hell out of me while I am in my car but makes my blood boil when I see it while on the bike. Bikers being so much more vulnerable to the stupidity of the "cagers". I don't get the whole texting thing anyway. End of rant and thanks!!!!!!!!!
Jim
Jim