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  • texting WHILST driving

    sorry I just had to :/

  • Can you guys get Bora to weigh in on some issues on the show?

  • Do i need your permission to quote you in an essay for university?

  • If someone had done that that would've been epic. Teach that bitch a lesson ^^

  • Ana is so cute. How the fuck are you so cute!? So frickin' cute!

  • I text all the time while driving, but i live in a small town so its way easier, i never do it when im in a city.

  • What is he saying @1:55? I never understand it clearly.

  • Of Cooooooourse

  • This example actually happened in my state a few years back- a pregnant lady was merging onto the freeway and cut someone off, that person got so angry that they got in front of the pregnant ladies car and slammed on the brakes- unfortunately the pregnant lady reacted too late and slammed into that car killing herself, her baby, and her child in the back seat. Dont slam on brakes- you never know how someone will react.

  • ... holding my breath for someone to invent a gadget that would shriek , or interrupt a cell phone at 20 or 30 feet. ( car to car ) Use it when you see someone next to you , or in back of you , that's on the phone while driving : blast their damn eardrums a few times & they might get the hint.

  • @curiousgeorge1940 Exactly. I'm thinking that high-pitched, ear-splitting beep my carbon monoxide alarm makes would be perfect. It's at least two or three times louder than my damn vacuum.

  • What we really need to do, is pass another law that won't be enforced.

  • @bobbytiger - Law passed in NY a while ago ... they average over 1000 hits/month and are going to step up the pace of enforcement. First offense now is $150 ticket. Third one is $500 and a 90 day suspended license.

  • I'm guilty of this... I try to limit it at red lights though, does that count? :(

    *puppy eyes*

    Man, I need a wake up call.

  • there should be a new app that drive your car for you.

  • This is why we need to build chauffeur robots like in I Robot.

  • I'm sorry but this shit really pisses me off, I'm like Ana lol. I almost got hit 4 times because someone was looking DOWN at their phone while driving. This one dumbass girl started swerving into my lane, I look over she's using BOTH hands..texting..smh. I swear when I saw that I felt the same way Ana did...people shouldn't have to die or anything else because of your stupid conversation which probably consist of "kk"..."lol" or "idk" BITCH if you crash into me..... >_>

  • Arrows to the knee are also really bad while driving.

  • WWBD?

  • @GODLESS24 Stop pandering for likes

  • Is that a scar on Cenk's forehead?

  • i bet the iphone 5 is going to come up with something that allows people to text and drive

  • I'm watching this video and texting on my other phone right now, while making a U-Turn on, on coming traffic with a baby in the back. :D

  • I'm riding my car right now

  • You guys spelled unsafe wrong at 1:02

  • I commit neurosurgery while I drive.

  • i never. like maybe at a red light and i have my friend or someone in the car who can tell me when its green. because i hate it when people cause traffic for not paying attention and so i try not to follow that.

  • @crayyawn Like Siri?

  • In the past month my mum and dad have both been fined £60 and given 3 points for talking on their mobile while driving. My mum was actually stationary in a traffic jam on a road that was completely gridlocked when she answered a phone call. That was a bit harsh I thought.

  • I used to drive but then I took an arrow to the wheel

  • I do my taxes while driving

  • How fucking selfish can you be. Atleast call the person. Most of the time, it's stuff you don't honestly need to adress right away and I'm pretty sure whatever the text is, it's not more important than a person's life. As if life doesn't have enough hazards in it.

  • As a motorcyclist, I was almost ran off the road twice by people who were texting while driving. I was happy as hell that the state of Alabama recently passed legislation on this issue. To all the people who do this- please stop. You are going to kill someone if not yourself!!!

  • Oh dont worry i will write my essay on the way there and also finish up my book.

  • Wow TYT you guys are so late on this story. How about dumbasses driving and video-recording themselves at the same time? Yes, while holding the camera. Yes, while looking INTO the camera. The mind boggles....

  • Odd the Promoted Video is on the Galaxy Nexus a new handheld touchscreen phone.

  • @1dark1dragon1knight1 Mine was for cookies.

  • we need some all voice controlled thing in your car. so you can speak what you want to text and send it by a voice command. They already have that sort of thing with calls if you have OnStar I think, probably wouldn't be too difficult...

  • Dr.Uygur,s in the house!!!!!

  • Here in Canada it is against the law everywhere to even be holding anything in your hand. But if your holding a cell phone it is automatically considered "reckless driving" and that means you are toast...

  • Drivers, who are skilful enough to multi-task, should be allowed to do so. Drivers should be punished, only if they injure other persons or their property. Libertarianism all the way!

  • @SkullOfYorick Why? It is not about if they can or can not do it. You should place your whole attention on driving regardless.

  • I drive a small remote control car while driving

  • @rsty614 Yo dawg...

  • @rsty614 yo dawg

  • @FuryFlurry1 what up

  • I brew my morning coffee and make bacon and eggs while driving.

  • The solution: Give people effective incentives or create a constant necessity to watch the road. People who are in denial of consequences from irresponsible behavior have to be confronted with more obvious and more imminent consequences, like immediate retraction of their license or jail time for endangering the public. Handing out more useless tickets will not change anything and will only encourage cops to lose focus of the purpose of it and simply abuse this as a source of revenue.

  • The problem: The invention of automatic transmissions. Driving takes almost no effort anymore.. no shifting gears, no clutch, super soft power-steering and suspension and you can't even drive faster in safer, more modern cars. Here is the one rare thing I like about Germany: The speed limit is pretty reasonable and you are allowed to go faster than the recommended Autobahn traveling speed of 130 km/h if circumstances allow you to do so safely. I have never even considered texting while driving.

  • WOW

    she's on the highway driving 25 miles/h; fuck LA

    I drive 70 miles/h to go home after work, it takes me less than 10 mins

  • Even when I'm riding a bike at 5mph I pull over to text.

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  • New law... Your not to be considered human, unless basic common sense is present or can be demonstrated.

  • I hate people walking slow in your way while on the phone.

    Fuck you mother fuckers, you may be in a cross walk but I'm not parking here in the road waiting for you to text or read, and I hope somebody runs over your sorry ass.

  • Electronic device addiction is a real problem - People who forget there phone actually feel a phantom vibration in there pocket, even I suffered from this hold until recently when I felt compelled to take my tablet phone or laptop even into the toilet with me.

  • @BlackMambakins Lolol

  • Don't fap and drive. Unless someone else is fapping for you.

  • You know what really grinds my gears? People that drive while being on the phone. I've almost gotten hit 4 times on my commute to college by assholes talking or texting!!!

  • the only time i text behind the wheel is at a stoplight

  • I text during sex

  • I found out my friend was playing his PSP while driving and I nearly tore his head off in rage. Not only could the idiot kill himself but also others. It's important that friends/relatives/whoever inform people not to do this shit. It's more effective then some PSA rattling off how dangerous it is.

  • i drunk text while i drive 8====d stuff like that

  • "siktir" Thanks to The Young Turks I'm now learning Turkish lol

  • Don't worry, Ron Paul will get rid of the NTSA -- problem solved!

  • After 3 offenses your license should be suspended, end of story.

  • cellphones are retarded. i cant talk to my friends without them looking at their phone, while i'm talking. how rude. family and friends do it at the dinner table. they cant put their phone down for 5 minutes. last month i almost got hit by a car, while crossing the street, and i guy turns in on me, and he's on his phone texting, and he slams his brakes when he glanced at me, a foot before hitting me, because of his texting -_- fuck

  • 1:00 Your grammar and spelling sucks.

  • Answer to Ana's question about the girl on her phone. You have got to blame it 50/50. Half because she is operating her phone which causes the driving distraction, and other half because she is a women. We all know women can't drive

  • @DaddyFatSzack yes but guys make the best speedbumps. :P

  • eating and drinking while driving... difference? no

  • this is why we should allow people to make phone calls.

  • thumbs up if you've ever beat off while driving!

  • I hate it when people do anything that requires using both hands or looking away while driving. Them driving 10-20 mph below speed limit is already irritating enough, but when they start swerving into other lanes, I get this urge to hit them. I love my car so I really can't do it.

  • I blame the iPhone.

  • @mannyray77 i blame people :)

  • So those using the phones don't think it effects them, hm? Well good thing drunk driving is alowed, because drunk drivers often times don't think it effects how THEY drive, either....

  • they feel usafe?

  • Pull in front of them stop short - get rear ended - sue the shit outta

    em...

  • I ride motorcycle everywhere, everyday, and nothing pisses me off more than to pass someone while they are driving slow in the left lane only to look over to see someone holding their phone with both hands looking down at their phone.

  • "We should ban texting all together...and the Internet...and gay people." - particular Conservative congresspeople

  • if someone is driving slow, and texting, i wouldn't care. I don't need to go 60 mph. Her slowing ana down put her what? 30 seconds? maybe 1 minute later to where she was going. It drives me crazy that people are so annoyed when people go slow on the freeway, as if that extra 5 mph will solve the worlds problems.

  • back in the day, i had a flip phone and it was easy as pie to sleep, drive, hold a conversation, whatever... on my phone. now that i have a touch screen... i know i can't do any of those things safely.

  • @nicpey If new phones still had actual buttons, all would be well. It is easy to figure out what you are pushing because of the little reference nub on the 5 (like the nibs on the J and F keyboard keys). You don't need to look down.

    That is why I like my 6 year old Motorola. It does what it is told, nothing more and nothing less. No apps opening up in the background on their own will. No touchy touchscreen that only behaves when it wants to. Plus it has much better battery life.

  • The day someone hits me because they were texting i will more than likely (if possible) break there hands

  • plain and simple just dont fuckin do it....and everyone whos guilty of it including myself knows it does have the potential to get you in a accident....so stop lying to yourself and....PULL THE FUCK OVER ASSHOLES!!!....if its that important

  • Id do just like that Borah guy.

  • One guy (who I almost followed home to kick the shit out of) did me one better over your friend "Borah" or however you spell it. Traffic was getting heavy, I saw ahead and switched lanes thinking I would get a few cars up with my foresight. Then the SUV who was in front of me realized my great idea, and changed lanes INTO me so I had to get off the road and slow down to get behind him. So I blew my horn.

    He flicked his car in REVERSE at me. On the highway!

  • I feel that when I do make a phone call when driving, I pay minimal attention to the call and if anything happens on the road, my attention is completely on that. But I don't make a habit of calling and driving.

  • I look up porn while driving.

  • @chandl34 But you need one hand to drive, so can you beat off to the porn? If not, what's the point?

  • @chandl34 but can you look up porn, drive, and rub one out at the same time?

  • Can we just stop women from driving first. . . THEN let's worry about this texting and driving issue. . . you have to take care of the bigger problem before the minor ones

  • "usafe" ... "passangers" ... Do you guys need a proofreader? I could use the money...

  • I like Ana's scary voice

  • It's so retarded. I used to carpool with a guy and I quit it because he wouldn't stop texting when he drove. Also we always arrived late because as he texted he would have to slow down and slam the brakes every few seconds. What's the point? Wouldn't it be better to look at the road, drive faster, get there early, and then take the minutes you gained to calmly send that so-important text?

  • What's up with the blue screens in front of the desk? I think that's ugly and pointless. Love the the show tho - just a small critique

  • my best friend died from texting while driving coming home from school.Phones should be ban

  • @jeffxl12

    Yes let's ban phones because your friend was a prime example of being a dumbass who can do two things at once. . . RIP

  • @jeffxl12 Darwin always win...

  • "He never gets in an accident" ....yeah, but I bet he's seen thousands!

  • Now its illegal in the UK - the number of people driving around staring at their laps is just stupid! Just scary.

  • Yeah if the girl rear ends him it her fault anyway she was texting while she was driving and just the plain fact that she rear ended him is going to cause her to pay for the damages.

  • texting=drunk driving. If you text and drive, you're an idiot.

  • @osaka35 or a dead idiot

  • Well, you mostly only get into one accident at 100 m/h...

  • in bangkok they use their mobile when riding their motorcycle/scooter. scary!

  • Misspelled "passengers"

  • *smashed*

  • A dimwit rear ended me on a red light due to his phone. Fucker samahed in my back end. I got out of my car pissed and he started feeling sorry for himself, 'don't report this I'm going through a divorce with a bitch angel from hell!!!'. Man, I wanted to slay that pos right there in the street. Then his insurance company USAA screwed me over. This happened back in '07 and I'm still fuming all cos of a STUPID FUCKING CELL PHONE!!! I'm glad I shared.

  • That's why I don't drive cars... the fact that I don't have a drivers license might have something to do with this as well.

  • And this is why I haven't taken my motorcycle out since June.

  • ana, the least you could do was judge her off the road and free it up for the cars behind her.

  • I wonder if the girl in Ana's story was lost.

    Going super slow and checking directions on a phone would be understandable in that situation, as annoying as it would be for everyone else.

  • Dear lord. In Sweden it is taboo to just talk on the phone. If you text whilst driving you're going to be seriously judged by even your closest friends. It is idiotic.

  • @NKirkwall Wow, I almost give a fuck what people in Sweden think. Listen you mackerel eating, Nazi gold hiding, yodeling American wannabe, when we are interested in what back-water no-count European states think about us we won't ask. So jump into a long boat, launch it into a fjord and sink to the bottom!

  • morale of the story, humans suck.

  • If I get hit by a car because the driver was texting, and I survive. I coming for blood.

  • if I was Ana, i definitely would have honked and given her the bird. I also dont understand why people text while driving.. just wait til you get home/to your destination. I was thinking what if cops gave more tickets(no warnings) with a high fine

  • This is stupid. America is probably the only country where everyone feels that they are so important that they must check that text or they have to send that text.

  • @thundavolt You have the exact same problem in GB the only difference is that noone gives a fuck about what's going on in your decayed, nonworld-player Muslim loser country. So go have a cup-o-tea and biscuit, brush your loose tooth and take a walk off London bridge (which is now in the US) you fucking Limey.

  • Survival of the Fittest at work. I knew stupidity would eventually play into how humans evolve.

  • You know an easy solution is to put the fucking phone down for 10 damn minutes. Or just wait till you are no longer moving, you have a brain, its a computer, use it once and a while. The text isn't going to go anywhere, it will still be on the phone when you park your car or reach a red light.

  • When my buddy texts while behind the wheel, I just grab the wheel and give him break and gas commands.

    It's team driving.

  • I stayed up all of last night trying to code a website for women drivers but it kept CRASHING !!!

    

  • I would lose my mind if someone ran into my car because of texting. I have the feeling if that happened I would take there phone and break it.

  • Just like the Kim Jong Il -- it's ok if I watch American movies, but I'm the Dear Leader. If my subjects do, it might give them ideas -- no can do.  I can handle it but no one else can

  • I think a solution for this problem could be dictation-based texting: you just speak your message, your device converts it to text and sends it (on your command). We more or less have the technology for that, even if it needs a bit of improvement.

    Another would be fully automated cars, where you just tell the car where you want to go and it takes you there. I need one like that. Though I doubt everyone would be eager to give up driving, even if it would save countless lives.

  • I'm sorry, "they're passangers"??? Up2 TYT!

  • Texting on the rise- we need drones and shoot lazer beams into peoples' eyes to keep them in check.

  • 2:40 ADORABLE.

  • This is why we need automated cars.

  • @ColdMountainWater no..stupid people just shouldnt be aloud to drive.

  • @ColdMountainWater

    no this is why people need to stop being stupid.

  • @ColdMountainWater

    No. This is why we need people with a fuckin brain. Driving a 3000 pound bullet, people need to learn to behave and DRIVE!

  • @ColdMountainWater

    Automated cars? No friend we needa catch up to the train game,

  • I saw an article online with very detailed pictures of a texting and driving accident. Guy was texting and smashed his car into a truck. His intestines were across the road and his brains were sprayed across the backseat and window. That was pretty much enough for me to say...Yeah I dont think texting and driving is a good idea. Maybe other people should see it too.

  • I totally agree that it should be law not to text/email while driving, but I have seen so many cops driving,using their laptop thing, and talking on their cell phones. Remember those girls who died because a cop ran into because he was on his laptop and talking to his girlfriend on the phone and he came out of the wreck with only bruises. Bull fucking shit. Charge him with manslaughter.

  • Drivers on cell phones should pay the highest fines available and suffer the harshest penalties on their license. These idiots kill people, this is no joke.

  • Its PassEnger dear tyt folks

  • You gotta honk at these idiots on the road or else they think its ok to drive like morons, flick them off if necessary. They're litterally putting peoples lives at risk.

  • In fact get Bora on the young Turks

  • I want Bora as a friend :-)

  • THE Hilarious thing is my friend tahir does this all the time lol.. when someone pisses him off driving he pulls infront of them and press on breaks.. im like dude this would only piss u off more if we got into a accident lol.

  • Everyone should drive manual cars... problem solved...

  • @Nawz89 So right, you have to pay more attention when driving a manual car.  They're funner to drive too.

  • younger people often feel immortal lol

  • she wants him so bad it's terrible

  • Here in Finland its amazing how many people don't use the seat belt and text while driving.

    I am embarassed for my country.

  • Using a cellphone while driving is already banned in most provinces in Canada...Also, cops only take marijuana away or issue you a ticket (like a speeding ticket) where you will pay a fine after appearing in court (for small amounts), we have gay marriage, universal health care... I was thinking of moving to the U.S but honestly its fucking backwards.

  • @male751 maybe in van, cops in edmonton will fuck you up if you got that. well maybe cuz i'm asian since i never heard of any of my white buddies getting fucked up by cops before...

  • A middle aged woman was texting and driving when she rear ended me causing my cigarette to fling out of my mouth and burn my seat, fucking bitch.

  • @Zsmart What a fucking whore. Same thing happened to me. Some cunt was yapping on the phone and slams me from behind. The fucking laptop goes flying off my lap and into the dash.

  • @Zsmart haha, yeah you're right I meant for white people in Canada. I'm black so I can't carry weed either. But in high school I used to hear the white guys joking about how the cops would just take the weed for themselves (small amounts) or how one cop took a guys Sony PlayStation Portable (South Asian guy - Indian) for his son as a bribe in addition to the weed. There are definitely double standards here so I guess you are right in the sense that it is not perfect by any means.

  • @Zsmart You just watched the road rage video, huh? =D

  • i can text without looking at my phone so i can keep both eyes and my attention on the road. i guess most people can't. and if they can't, they shouldn't do it. but i haven't been in a wreck or even pulled over once. and i am always able to avoid idiots on the road who can't even drive whether they're texting or not

  • @Th3xUnkn0wn can u also read the text will keeping ur eyes on the road? how do u reply to a text that u have no idea what it says?

  • @682Daisy maybe i only look when i stop at a light? think about what you're saying before you say it.

  • I text and check traffic while driving all the time, but it's terrible and distracting. DON'T DO IT KIDS. I'm a trained professional, trained by experience.

  • Messing with your phone when there's no traffic around isn't too big of a deal, I'd say (as long as it's quick and not consistent), but if you're texting on the road, you might as well be calling someone.

    If I'm on the freeway, I hate fucking with my gps when I'm in a new area, and I'm an enthusiast driver. Safety is always a priority. Vehicle maintenance and mental preparedness.

  • I'm okay with a person with this level of stupidity being taken out of the human gene pool

  • I drive better on the road when I play my game boy. 

  • WTF IS WASIKTA?!

    SO MUCH WASIKTA!!!

  • @plusmin09, Google, brother. It's your friend. Wa siktir is what he says and it means "Oh shit" or "Oh fuck"

  • Some people are so stupid it's funny. This isn't funny tho. Seriously WTF ARE THEY THINKING?!?

  • This story makes me worried as a cyclist. I only use my phone to check traffic or listen to music while driving.

  • The human brain for thousands of years evolved to be able to complexly think on a single subject at a time. Now we are fighting against that evolution to multitask.

    Kind of reminds me of computers in the early 00s they had single core processors and could do 1 task really well, but when you had a web browser, a video playing, and a game solitaire the machine Really slowed down. hence why they made dual, then quad, hex, now oct core processors. But we arnt robots, so we cant upgrade in 5 years.

  • Man, people are dumb.

  • fuck yes, in front and hard on the breaks LOL

    that wakes up the person :D