Texting Is The New Cocaine

Two days ago I heard a broadcast on NPR about the dangers of texting on a cell phone while driving. The centerpiece of the story was a 19-year-old woman who had had a near-lethal car accident because she had been texting behind the wheel.

When the host asked her about whether the accident stopped her from texting while driving, the young woman said that at first it did.

First she only texted while the car was stopped. Then, however, she began texting again while moving, but "only really rarely, like every five minutes." At last, she admitted, she was back to her old ways. "Texting," she said, "is, like, so addictive."

A short time later she got into another accident for the same reason.

Now, says this angelically-protected addict, she's going to be first in line to buy a new electronic product that blocks texting by phones in a moving vehicle.

Purchasing a new technology in order to stop yourself from using one that you already pay money for?

If this is the car of reality, then pull over and let me out.

~emrys