It depends on where you live. It may not be illegal, but it is oblivious very dangerous. When driving you attention must be on the road. One split second of inattention may cost someone their ( or your ) life!!
In more and more areas, yes, texting, and the use of other handheld, electronic devices is now illegal.
Unfortunately, in some areas, it's still legal. However, you have a good point. If it is illegal to use your hands to hold the phone or answer it, common sense dictates that it should be illegal to text-message while driving. There is nothing in black and white that says, "Don't text-message while you are driving," but people should be intelligent and sensible enough to not send text messages while driving. LIke I told someone else recently (while they were driving), "You're driving! Keep your hands on the wheel, your eyes on the road, and your mind on your driving. A vehicle can be very dangerous if you're not careful with it." I'd say your friend owes you $5!
Texting while driving should be illegal for several reasons, one being that texting while behind the wheel is just one more distraction. A person already has enough things to concentrate on such as flipping the radio, talking to passengers and of course the obvious, driving the vehicle. Texting is only asking for trouble. Even if a driver's eyes are off the road for a second the risk of a collision increases. When someone chooses to text and drive, they not only risk their own life and the lives of their passengers, but they also endanger others on the road.
Generally, no, but that depends on the state. In California, you can get a ticket for it, and you can be arrested if you cause an accident that way.
In California, it's illegal to drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless phone to write, send or read text messages or instant messages, or to write, send or read emails. You can be cited and fined for texting while driving, no matter what your age. To learn more about texting, driving and state law please go to www.driversedonline.com or www.trafficschoolonline.com.
No it is not legal! if anything, it would be illegal.
no, it is not illegal to text and drive although it is in 25 different states.
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Yes, and you can get points on your insurance for it.
it is legal in some states it is illegal to text while driving
Text messaging is on your ohone while instant messaging is in your computer (AIM)
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She was proscribed from calling her boyfriend. Deciding it was deadly, the assembly passed a law to proscribe text messaging while driving.
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While the practice has not been picked up by many businesses, some do offer discounts on their services through text messaging. Gap, for example, offers discounts to customers through text messaging using Visa.
No, WikiAnswers does not have a text messaging service.
Text messaging as it is known today is a style called Short Messaging Service, or SMS. It was designed by Friedhelm Hillebrand while he was working for Deutsche Telekom, a German communications company based in Bonn, Germany.
All cellphones have text messaging unless your cellphone is one of the first cellphones ever invented. Go to your cellphone carrier and talk to them about how to acess your text messaging.
Why on earth would you want to? Pick one to do and do it - text or drive - or else just post where you're driving and the web will know to avoid you.
The Canadian provinces that ban handheld cell phone use and text messaging while driving include British Columbia, Manitoba, NewFoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward island and Quebec.
a cell phone with text capability and a mobile plan that allows text messaging.