man gets 3 years in prision for texting and driveing
 

man gets 2 years in prison for texting and driving just saw this on the news.ill try to find link but he killed some one while doing it which there is no way anyone can live with them selfs after doing such a thing

No link/source?

was just on abc news here in the states found link guess it was 2 years i mis heard them http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...e-driving?lite

Wow, only 2 yrs for running over someone.

People are idiots, give him the chair.

i think he should get longer to.i mean what kinda a moron would text and drive.

I was thinking two years for using a phone was harsh. I think in this country it's 6 points and a big fine. But then reading the article, it's apparent he killed someone, so two years seems lean. His age has probably helped him out. It's manslaughter after all.

That's dangerous driving causing death/manslaughter http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/mad1.gif

Some of the penalties handed out are flaming disgraceful - some stupid drunk woman crashed while avoiding a stop point and killed someone, down here, not long ago and was initially sentenced to home detention - even on appeal she just got a year... having a lawyer for a father didn't mean anything - yeah, right!
IMO, texting while driving is just like driving while drunk and is comparable to recklessly discharging a firearm - chances are nothing will happen, but it it does the results can be devestating, especially to innocent people!

bah ! here some dude stabbed his two youngsters 46 times and got 1 year in a psych institute http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/blink1.gif Then a teen killed a passenger while driving with an apprentice's license without supervision and got one year home sentence.

texting and driving is very stupid though (not that I've never done it before)

What a misleading title....he killed someone, 3 yrs is a slap in the hand

2 years prison for being an idiot and texting while driving. Seems harsh.

2 years prison for being an idiot and texting while driving and killing someone. WAY to lenient.

Sure he has to live with it for the rest of his life but he was the idiot that chose to text and drive. It's been proven to be just as or worse then drink driving so the punishment should be the same.

Nobody here ever texted "OK" while driving?
That said I would never write a text that would really distract me from driving. I don't understand how people can drive a car without knowing they're in control.

That's enough to distract you, tbh. The problem with texting on most phones is that you have to look at the screen to do it. If I had some kind of keyboard on my steering wheel, I could most likely text all day and be just fine. But having to take my eyes off the road, hit "reply", type out two letters, click send, then close my phone, even if that only takes 5 seconds is 5 seconds I'm not watching the road. I may as well just close my eyes and hope for the best at that point.

I used to text and drive when I was like 20, then I almost rear ended someone and realized how stupid I was being, and haven't done it since.

Well obviously you don't do all the 5 seconds at once.. You look at screen, look back, press OK, look back, send back, look back. It's the same as tuning the radio or GPS

And that's why studies have shown you're a better driver when you're texting than while falling off your ass drunk.

Oh wait its the other way around.

writing OK is different than writing a whole text

Killed someone while texting and driving and 2 or 3 years was all he got? That's BS. Back in April I was rear ended by an idiot that was likely texting/messing with his phone and was uninsured while I was in a new car I just got in November. I was completely stopped at a red light and he had at least a good 1/8+ mile or more to see stopped traffic. I'm hoping he got at least a 1 year license suspension, but I'll probably never know what punishment came about.


Says someone that's never been in an accident caused by someone doing **** on their phone... With a GPS, you don't really have any need to mess around with it. A lot of them don't even let you change anything unless you're stopped, you set your destination before you leave and that's it. With a radio, it's usually just changing the volume which you don't even have to take your eyes off the road for. Plus most cars have controls on the steering wheel now.

Read my first reply, I'm 100% against texting & driving. I'm just saying I have a qwerty phone and I can send OK in the same time I look into my mirrors

You guys can't touch type on your phone http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo.../confused1.gif

Used to be able to with a physical keyboard. Touchscreen phones are not really possible to do that.

I would say that's enough distracted time to cause an accident. However, I cannot realize why cars with built-in mics cannot do bluetooth triggered voice texts... or phone-based reading through the car's speakers. So you get a text... and the car informs you that you got one, then you can choose to have it read to you. If you want to reply, just hit a single button on the wheel, say "reply to last text", and speak a short reply, then send. Google transcribes clearly spoken text pretty well. This would be a boon for highway safety, and would reduce texting to the same level of distraction as a passenger or listening to the radio.