03-24-2017, 07:35 AM
(03-24-2017, 05:06 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Too late to outlaw it now. People had tried it, and liked it. they are not going to gove up their phones.
It's been against the law to drive without a seatbelt or drive under the influence here for 10 years or more. Pretty substantial ticket if spotted, or pulled over, yet every night on the news when they are reporting the auto carnage on the highway, they report " alcohol or drugs was believed to be involved and neither driver was wearing a seatbelt".
Yet, respectfully, while it may be that a very high percentage of accidents they report do involve "under the influence" and / or no seat belts, that doesn't mean that laws are not having a positive effect. There's no way to document "accidents that never happened" because some citizens DO make decisions based on tough laws and refrain from drinking while driving, and do buckle up, and do avoid texting...and maybe some of us have been the benefit of these "non-accidents" that could have been...hopefully that make sense. So even if some will always text / drive under the influence despite laws, some others will curb such behavior because of the laws and the net effect is positive.