Last Friday, the Honolulu City Council moved forward to ban text messaging while operating a motor vehicle on Oahu.
The ban, which also covers playing video games while driving, was under consideration by the council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee. If the bill passes, it would be the first restriction on using mobile phones while driving in the state, excluding military bases.
The bill would ban writing, sending or reading text-based communication while driving — including text messaging, instant messaging and e-mail.
Honolulu police Maj. Thomas T. Nitta said the department neither supports nor opposes the proposed legislation, but said it would be difficult for officers to differentiate between a driver dialing a phone number and a driver sending a text or e-mail.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081121/NEWS01/811210383
Yeah, how would they differentiate checking a phone number and just checking how many minutes you have left in your plan? Officers would be inches away from you to justify what you are actually doing. And yesterday, there was an article about Honolulu as one of the top markets for text messaging. Interesting…
Honolulu ranks as one of the top metropolitan markets for text messaging, according to a new ranking by Scarborough Research.
AdvertisementHalf of cell phone subscribers who are 18 or older use their phones to send text messages, a distinction that’s also shared by Phoenix, San Diego, Houston, Philadelphia, Albuquerque, New York City and San Antonio.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881124043
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It is crazy how people text while driving… I mean, it is as bad as it is already by talking on the phone and driving, but texting??? C’mon!!! When my husband and I took the taxi to the airport, the STUPID driver TEXT while driving us. My huband got so angry with him, and told him to stop doing that. I mean, he has not only customers, but other life in his hands, and he is not even using them to drive, but to text??? That is bad!
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