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Reckless Text Messaging.(Column)
Byline: Cory Farley
NEWS ITEM: "State legislators are considering a ban on text messaging while driving, to reduce accidents caused by inattention. . . . After opponents said the ban would infringe on drivers' rights, a decision was postponed.''
True or false: Typing with your thumb on a keyboard the size of a Triscuit might divert your attention from an old lady inching along in her walker.
How can there be debate about that?
Vocal phone conversations are bad enough, but that genie is out of the bottle. You'd think, though, that when you add the danger of not looking where you're going to that of not thinking about what you're doing, ...
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