I upvoted you because you were brave enough to post a story about your texting and driving. While I agree in theory with your point that the law made texting an

I upvoted you because you were brave enough to post a story about your texting and driving. While I agree in theory with your point that the law made texting and driving a less safe activity, what you were doing was already unsafe, don't you see that? You could have easily killed someone. Cars have blind spots to check; pedestrians, pets, kids, bikes can come from no where really quickly. Don't you agree that drivers should have 100% of their cognitive capacity devoted to driving? If not, if you allow 90% of cognitive capacity to watching all around the roadway, multiply that 90% over millions of drivers, and you're statistically going to have thousands of unnecessary deaths and countless more injuries and accidents. If you're texting "okay" or "on my way" and you kill someone, you will have killed someone's family member all for a completely pointless, inane text. Even if you never killed someone, and you only injured someone or scared the Beejesus out of someone, how is it worth the .001% convenience to text someone now instead of at your destination or pulling over briefly with hazards or turn indicator?