The Last Text

None of my kids have a drivers license yet, and we have text blocking, but I will still make sure they all see this video.

Population culling. If she's that good at texting while driving then this wouldn't have happened. I've sent texts since they invented cell phones. Never swerved, never lost my awareness on what vehicles on the road are doing.

There are plenty of things that can kill you while driving. Not wearing seat belt. DUI. Messing with the radio. Some people.

@ Elnots - Are you really saying that or are you pretending to be someone who would say that?

So they want you to stop texting while driving so you don't die and pay more monthly bills :?

I use to text and drive a bit where I live but now it is against the law to do so and if caught you are charged.

@ Elnots

It doesn't matter what you're capable of. Just because you *can* do something, doesn't mean it's right. You may not harm yourself, but what about innocent lives that are taken by your carelessness? People picked at random for your "culling"?

I was hit by a car this year at 2:00pm, in bright clothes, while walking down the street. I was at a one-way crosswalk traveling parallel to the traffic on the drivers side. The crosswalk sign flashed, giving me the right of way, and I began crossing. I was hit from behind from a turning car halfway through the crosswalk. If I had not landed the way I did on the pavement, he would have rolled over my arm, leg, or maybe both. If I had been two feet ahead of where I was, I might be dead right now.

To my knowledge this driver was not texting.

People already lack awareness as-is. Add alcohol or texting to the mix and you get terrible things.

@Elnots

I am sure everyone that has been in an accident involving texting felt exactly the same way as you do before they were in an accident.

This is one of those things where you just put the blooming thing in your pocket/purse/wherever and leave it there until you get parked somewhere. Not everybody is as 'smart' or as obviously well versed in multi-tasking as Elnots so let's just leave the phones sitting until you find a pkg spot. (I am wayyyyyyyyy beyond being able to multi-task so the phone stays put in the car and not in my hand.) Geeeeeez, if nothing else, hand it to a passenger if you have one. If it is that private, wait until you are somewhere else. It doesn't really have a thing to do with being able to text and drive, it has to do with setting that temptation to the side for a few minutes.
What did we do without cell phones years ago?

Too bad there are people like Elnots out there who will think the exact same thing after watching this video.
"Oh well, THEY deserved it b/c they couldn't multi-task, but I do it ALL the time with no problem."
Uh huh, I'm sure that's exactly what those people thought as well right before they were killed, or killed someone else.

Elnots: It won't matter if you can text without swerving if a little kid runs out from behind a car at the last second and you are reading a message and don't break. People just need to stop being idiots.

Don't feed the troll, people.

It is an actual attitude. People think the same way about drinking and driving, about taking drugs, or having unprotected sex.

You always think the bad stuff will happen to someone else, especially when you're young and think you're invincible.

a friend of mine cartwheeled his truck. not because of texting,but because of a bee. there were no cell towers (and still aren't) in the area. another friend of mine reached down on the passenger sidef loor of his car to grab a cd case and ended up side swipeng a telephone pole, ripping the door and quarter panel off the driver side. there are distractions all around us when we are in our cars. i don't text because i get a headache when i drive and read at the same time, even while in the passenger seat. some people eat and drive and cause accidents. driving is simply the most dangerous form of transportation.

Wow, I wish I was as full of myself as Elnots. He's a perfect example of someone who's often wrong, but never in doubt.

I'll try not to laugh when he plows into a wall while masterfully texting something deep and meaningful like "lol hey my rash got better". I just hope this idiot doesn't harm anyone else when it happens.

Good idea, but how many young (or old) people will watch a 10 minute video on the computer. Maybe with some nudity...

I wish the video was less melodramatic, but I watched it entirely nonetheless

It will definitely shape me up on not texting having watched the video. However, I think the camera operator may have been texting while filming with the jittery framing. ;-)

"What did we do without cell phones years ago?"

Remember landlines in everyone's home? Letter writing? A lot less mental masturbation and vapid mentations-Everyone with a cellphone and more people on Facebook than Google???....Welcome to modern society's de-evolution. The mindless pursuit of time-wasting, hollow, mundane interaction with one another.

Every time I think of the film, "Idiocracy" I say to myself, "Give that scenario about 20-30 years"..My children may live to see the first Buttfucker's hamburger restaurant open. (reaches for Brawndo, drinks down in one swallow)

I have a great app for my android that gives an automated response when people text me (when driving or whatever.) It also reads the incoming text to me.

Cute responses. Love the feedback. It's like saying the person who's funeral you're at was an asshole. No one wants to say it but it's still true. There are a million things that can cause you to loose control of your vehicle, I want to see the video's making desperate pleas to not change the CD in your radio till you pull over. Or the melodramatic video about how reaching for something in the back seat WILL KILL YOU! I don't drive and text unless I feel I am in a position to do so. Boxed in traffic or neighborhood areas, you don't be dumb about. And always keep your eyes on the road. With a good cell phone you can text without looking. Be smart, not bleeding heart.

@elnots

Don't sweat the naysayers, I was banned from Videosift accused of trolling, among other things-Quite simply, when you ruffle someone's feathers with common sense scenarios and matter-of-fact too often, you are bound to find the few emotionally-needy who passive-aggressively feed their own egos by alienating those few independent thinkers who have more self-esteem and awareness to work with.

However, texting while driving is insane....seen collisions and near collisions too many times to count, and folks who do it are usually addicts and idiots...

@Elnots

You forgot to mention people changing their pants while driving. Among all the stupid things people do while driving, texting is still an unnecessary distraction no matter how good you are at it. It’s this self allowances and ignoring of possibilities which contributes to accidents happening.

Everyone thinks they're better than average drivers, better than average multi-taskers, better than average whatnot. It's total BS.

There should be SERIOUS jail time for texting while driving. Serious.

Can't see how it compares to saying bad things about someone at their funeral.

I have seen people using their phone while driving, and their driving suffers. I have used a phone while inside a car, and have no idea how I could possibly drive safely while using that phone. It's like reading a book.

Yes, there are a million possible distractions, but this is one that is happening a lot because of people who think they can do it safely. That's the reason for the video, even if you think it's melodramatic. I don't know if I'd call defending a dangerous practice a common-sense scenario.

I've been behind several drivers who are weaving madly all over the 3-lanes of traffic, then pulled up beside them to see that they weren't drunk at all..just multi-tasking on their cellphones.

Being a "good driver" doesn't mean you don't get into an accident. It also means you don't CAUSE any accidents.

Besides, if I'm driving, I'm bizzy. Leave a message and I'll call you back. I got better stuff to do besides say "LOL" and flip my damn vehicle into a semi because you're talking about last night's date.

Very Sobering. Sad that people will still text and drive and die or kill innocent people. Nobody ever thinks it will happen to them.

Those people are dumbasses, why would anyone ever text while driving near other cars? And why are the people in this video so lame that they send thousands of texts all the time instead of actually talking to people?

and Elnots: that's so impressive that you could send texts on the old analog cell phones from the 90s!