Some laws about phone use and eating/drinking/etc. while driving went into effect where I am recently.
I've got mixed feelings. On one hand, it pisses me off for the man to tell me I can't text and drive, but on the other hand, traffic deaths are increasing and a large fraction involve phone use or other distracted driving. I'm not sure this is really any worse that DUI laws (which I also have mixed feelings about, but support more than this).
view the rest of the comments →
[–] 9961108? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If they had actual crime under control I might be ok with it. But as it is they constantly cheer about their distracted driving crackdowns and how many tickets they have given out while trying to keep us from looking behind the curtain at real crimes. Locally we have violent and property crime going up and up yet the cops only want to talk about tickets for folks looking at their phones at a stop light.