Surely there was at least one fatality from someone writing a letter while driving.
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Is that texting though? All texting is writing but not all writing is texting.
They had radio teletype back then. That would be much closer to texting. You would need a van to haul the RTTY station around in though.
I've seen people reading books while driving, so I wouldn't be surprised
Now do drunk driving.
And seatbelts
“I don’t need your dern seatbelts. I prefer to be thrown safely clear of the crash!”
There is a radio dj where I live who likes to joke "the windshield is my seatbelt". Because he used to not wear a seatbelt, until he went through his windshield
I remember prematurely scoffing at this notion in regards to early formula 1
But with the context that the driver stuck out like this, and the cars were more likely than not to go up in flames in an accident, I'd say it might actually very well have been safer without.
But, yeah, it of course makes no sense in consumer cars.
My dad told me to keep both hands on the wheel, look down the road to spot potential trouble early, and to not speed.
He never said anything about not texting.
And, if you say it's because I learned to drive in 1983, then I think you're just dodging the point.
You won't fool me. The car wasn't yet invented in the 1960's!
It's true, I was there. All we had was unicycles. It was bananas
Banana unicycles you say?
It's true! Banana's are the root cause of the problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
That's a common misconception. The banana is actually the fruit of the plant, not the root.
Whatever, I'm sure some asshole fell off his horse while reading a letter or something. No, I think this map is terrible because they connected to the wrong database.
Clearly they hadn't invented a car telephone that could text yet. Even the one from 1965 couldn't do it.
In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move
What about reading those road maps that expanded into a 3'x6' paper blanket?
It all started with the free exchange of information and ideas.
Why is NJ pointing to MD. Nothing is pointing to NJ. In scared. Where do I exist now.