Study shows buzz driving safer than cell driving.

[Mister Zero]

Source: http://www.switched.com/2009/06/28/car-and-driver-puts-dwt-vs-dwi-to-the-test/

How many more times do we have to be told that driving while texting is dangerous? We know! Please stop doing studies and surveys.

What's that you say, Car And Driver? You've got a video where you put real people behind the wheel of real vehicles, and make them read and fire off messages? Then, you get them them hammered to find out if DWT (driving while texting) is actually as bad as driving while intoxicated. Okay, we cave...

Tell us more.

The car enthusiast magazine ran tests at two different speeds, 35 miles per hour and 75 mph, with two different subjects, a 22-year-old intern and the 37-year-old editor-in-chief. Then, the test measured the amount of time it took subjects to stop when prompted by a set of LEDs (mounted on the windshield). This was meant to simulate break lights on a car ahead of the subjects. Using that as a baseline, Car And Driver measured how much longer it took the intern and the editor to stop when reading a text, writing a text, and drunk.

The intern took an extra seven feet to stop at 35 mph, and 15 extra feet at 75 mph while intoxicated. But those numbers doubled when texting -- an extra 31 feet were needed while texting at 75 mph. Wow.

The older editor-in-chief did even worse. He took an extra 319 feet to stop while texting at 75 Mph, but only 17 more while three sheets to the wind.

Video link available at source website.

[Mister Zero]

I'd like to know why so many people have such a sense of entitlement. Why do they feel the urge to always be yapping to someone about something that could have waited until they got home to a landline?

I don't personally do this, and I almost ran into some jackass today who was doing just this and pulled out RIGHT in front of me. I don't understand it, and I feel it needs to be illegal everywhere. Talking on the cell, texting, whatever. I hate when people are on the phone in stores too. It just bugs me. Why can't it wait? ARGH!