Speed Limits and Distraction Penalties for Weak Drivers, and One-Size-Fits-All Alcohol LimitPosted on 05/23/2010

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Enforced peer pressure laws, such as restricting everyone's drive time fun whether or not the bad driver can be trained to drive with more skill, are a patently reductive insult to everyone who can multitask and understand that more drivers wreck looking away from the road to spot hiding Highway Patrol cruisers than from driving sloppy while inebriated.

All revenue-generating laws that penalize us for deciding not to use personal safety precautions have two true purposes (to take our money and to circumvent probable cause to look into our lives), a single ostensible purpose (to protect us from ourselves), and a single long-term outcome (to replace our personal discretion with the government's). 

Ingenuity Could Find a Solution to Texting While DrivingPosted on 12/26/2011

A lot has been written about Ohio Senate House Bill 99, which effectively outlawed texting while driving (TWD) and even reading electronic texts, criminalizing a form of communication under a specific situation, as recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board in early December 2011.

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For the freedom to TWD, there’s an argument that it’s unconstitutional and far-reaching to restrict anyone’s freedom to communicate. Other arguments are based in a business necessity while driving; some cite unenforceability because the bill contains nine exceptions that are difficult for cops to prove weren’t being exercised by the suspect; one argument reminds us that there are already laws against reckless driving which apply no matter what reason we’re driving that way.

But the most convincing arguments are those against TWD. They’re based in the realities of death and destruction, of loss. They’re based in public safety, in the prevention of tragedies that can potentially result—and the damage that has resulted—from this single form of distracted driving.

First, texting isn’t necessary in any situation, but people want to do it, and they want the freedom to do it. No one needs to use every technological device known to man all of the time, just because the technology exists—especially if the technology distracts them and endangers others.

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Since you have more chance of being in a traffic accident the more time you spend on the road, and since only one third of traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers as opposed to two thirds by sober drivers, the safest way to drive is to be drunk and to drive very fast.

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