While we all know we shouldn’t send text messages from our mobile phones while driving, some of us keep doing to. Hack, we’ve even seen the poll results suggesting that 89% of American want to ban SMS behind the wheel, yet 66% of them have done it.
On the other side of the pond, UK authorities decided to react to the new potential danger. Following several survey results and let’s not forget that incident with the British teen who ended up in jail for texting while driving, the Crown Prosecution Service added a new charge of “dangerous driving” for related incidents. That charge would require the driver to be doing something likely to kill or seriously endanger somebody, while fiddling with a device like a phone or MP3 player.
The idea is to introduce a new deterrent, to get people to finally pay attention behind the wheel. Will the potential punishment of up to 2 years in prison help? It certainly sounds frightening. What do you think?
[Via: Autoblog]