Katie Couric's Notebook: Texting And Driving (CBS News)

[hioo23]

texting is a great vehicle for natural selection.

[kattelyn92]

Aww. What about "people on the road can turn and LOL into a great big OMG?"

But all kidding aside, I totally agree with this. And Im 16!

Please don't text and drive. I want to make it into adulthood.

[TweedleGeeks]

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[delta3303]

@TweedleGeeks I'd never get an app like that ever!!

[ASentinel2]

The good thing is that idiots that do this will soon be either injured, deformed or paralyzed or dead...

And that'll stop it..

Bad thing is, don't be around when their number is up...

[delta3303]

@ASentinel2 right that will stop it....do you even know how long people have been drinking and driving? wow I had to laugh at your comment

[ASentinel2]

@delta3303 The good thing is that idiots that do this will soon be either injured, deformed or paralyzed or dead...

And that'll stop it..

Bad thing is, don't be around when their number is up...

12,600 dead annually from drunk driving accidents

6000 dead annually from texting driving accidents

And people are pissing and moaning about 4000 troops dead in 10 years of war. same time almost 200,000 Americans died from these accidents.

[kikit66]

Shes so unattractive i can't even listen to what she is saying...plus given her resume I will never take her seriously.

[McNerget]

Krs-ONE said 19 years ago that the economic cycle we are caught in has got to change. Why won't anyone listen to him?

[ONLY1BLAZE]

legislation to make it illegal to text while driving will go the way of talking on a cell while driving...

powerful lobbyists like sprint are in the picture calling all the shots. they don't care about all the ppl getting killed because cell phone users don't know any better. they don't want laws to affect their profit margin.

[3halvesproductions]

I love how she says 'This needs to stop' with emotion but is reading the whole thing off a Teleprompter.

[MrLesNiaiseux]

BITCH

[mbz781]

katie i hate your wrinkled old liberal ass.

[allthings123]

Ha! Just because someone is right doesn't mean you have to hate them. Now go milk a cow and let the democrats get us out of the hell you neocon, over-religious, losers put us in.

[kikit66]

Im a registerd Green Party. I can't stand her.

[SECgatorFAN]

Killed huh? Do ya think the cell companies give a shit about all these dum ass kids? Nope. That money's all too powerful. Of course its the same with a gun I suppose. The guns don't kill people. The dum ass's "WITH" the gun...kills people. I still to this day don't understand it all. WHYYYYYYYYYYYY.....type when you can call???!!!!!!!! I understand if your in a club and its loud, but not in a car. Dam....are kids really becoming that fuckin stupid nowadays?!!!

[allthings123]

I have been saying the same thing but you just nailed it!

[yourweedsuckss]

texting & driving......... the drinking and driving of the 21st century!!!

[ghuegel]

Some dumb kid kills himself and everyone has to suffer.

[SushiBand]

That isn't the point(and this one incident is among many many others). It's that if you text while you drive, you are endangering everyone in your car and outside your car. When you drive, you have a responsibility to your passangers and everyone on the road. You hold thier lives in your hands. I can think of few other things that are more retarded and dangerous than texting while driving. I can't even believe it's happening and that people are that stupid, but it's true.

[turboturtle73]

travelling at 55 mph you cover app 30yards per second. how many seconds are needed to text? 4 or 5 at least that makes you travell about 100 to 150 yards without looking at the road. drivig a car is the most dangerous activity in the lives of most of the population, yet great number of people try to do everything but pay attention to the task at hand. seems that stupidity is greater than self preservation instinct.

[kubetail12]

Could not agree with you anymore...

[BleedingSunday]

@turboturtle73 Then dont look at your screen.

[naster123]

@turboturtle73 its called peripheral vison

[turboturtle2002]

@naster123 part of the problem is lack of concentration, and trying to look @ 2 things at a time doesnt work (there is a reason why fighter jets hav HUD's). not to mention that at the moment of texting you have poor car control. anyways statistics seem to indicate that texing while driving increases probability of an accident considerably...

[whatsupbillywilly]

cut the fucking phone off

[shiftdownracing]

not an accident if you were texting and crashed

[daddylionn]

how fucking dumb does one have to be to not understand that rest of our families are also out there, and we don't want you dumbfucks texting while running over our people! ..

[anniepunk666]

im a woman, and i have to agree.... women are always trying to get word of the last gossip and are always texting....

[SEAL07]

Kind of stupid that someone would actually be texting on a cell phone while driving.

[keys4321]

I'm so disappointed with her... her news reports just seem so mediocre and college-like... it's not conversational... it just seems like she's reading the prompter and doesn't really know what she's talking about... maybe the producers have to find better writers... i'm sure there are tons of people out there who can write better script than that!

[nambiamusic]

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[hamwinkie]

Okay, they want a politically correct or suitable response. No one should use a cell phone while driving. It is as dangerous as driving drunk or worse!

[hamwinkie]

The shit should be as illegal as drinking 5 beers and driving. Why? I know people who can drink ten beers and are way safer WATCHING THE ROAD!

[RepublicanLegend]

Actually watching Katie Couric is more dangerous.

[daddylionn]

thatz because she kicked Republican's ass? ...

[BigTimeZissou]

Yes.

[WarcraftWarlord]

well... yeah... texting while driving is clearly dangerous... it would be like reading a book while you drove... actually even worse

[Cirbirus]

I've nominated them for the Darwin awards.

[binoly]

I think that is the single greatest idea that I've heard from this story.