Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving

cartechboy writes "A new survey out this week says that the number of motorists who surf the Web has nearly doubled over the past four years. In 2009, 13 percent of motorists admitted that they'd accessed the Internet while driving. In 2013, that figure had jumped to 24 percent. Smartphones are the primary culprit, making the unsafe task even easier. Other distracted driving behavior is on the rise, too, and younger drivers are the biggest issue — 76 percent of motorists 18 to 29 said that they talked on a hand-held cell phone while driving. 70 percent said they were texting. Keep in mind we have states legislating smartphone use task by task, which clearly doesn't help."

Comments

The one instance in which I'd want Terminators

[Xaedalus]

Autonomous drones hovering above the highways, peering into our windshields. If there's some dumb retarded chick applying mascara while talking on her phone while driving--BAM!!! Bullet to the forehead! Some dumbass putting in headphones to listen to Pantera (or worse, Yanni) while driving--BAM!!! Bullet to the forehead! Texting--BAM!!! Bullet to the forehead. But so help me Satan, if somoene's actually surfing the web while driving, that drone should fire off a Hellfire missile and reduce that retard and his/her car into a smoking crater. Double-plus good if said retard's family is in there, as stupid tends to be passed on via nature and nurture.

Re:I do this

[CanHasDIY]

More laws aren't going to keep us from doing this.

No, but real punishment might.

Think about it this way: what do you think would be an appropriate legal response to a person who loads a revolver with a random assortment of blanks and live ammo, then proceeds to walk down the sidewalk with a blindfold on, holding the gun in front and squeezing the trigger over and over again?

Because when you play with your little toy when driving, that's exactly what you're doing - except for the fact that even the "blanks" in this scenario are made of 1.5 tons of steel, glass, fire, and incendiary fuel.