With my son learning how to drive, I tend to say ad nauseum to watch out for the other drivers. And it amazes me to watch how horribly others drive. Sure, know one wants to start an accident, but I see daily drivers holding their cell phone by their wheel, looking down as they drive. It makes their driving erratic and as my neighbor learned the hard way, caused an oncoming car to swerve into her lane and hit her.
The law may tell us to not text and drive and to keep our cell phone in our pocket, but the buzz and ring are Pavlovian, resulting in a desire to take them out and look at them. We are all guilty. It seems the current law may not be working no matter how many tickets the police may give or how many accidents are the result.
It may just be time to quickly embrace self driving cars. If we can't control our impulses to text and drive, then we need our cars to be our friend and drive for us. Uber without a driver. For every life we save or accident we prevent, the better our self driving car experience will be. For us and for others on the road. But until all cars are self driving, put the cellphone away while driving and for your sake if not others, stop texting and driving.
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