Source: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/texting-while-driving-statistics.html

Should we kill all of these people too since they are actually more dangerous. By your logic both are just as culpable since both were done by the choice of the driver.

Source: http://www.nationwide.com/newsroom/dwd-facts-figures.jsp

Personally these idiots scare me more than a drunk driver since I am more likely to have one of them run into me in my own personal driving experience.


Wheels

Blimey, folks go to jail a first offense of drink driving?

Over here, generally if no other circs (no death/danger etc) folks only go to jail if they get caught 3 times in 10 years for this kind of thing, and then only for a few months.

A couple of years of being repeatedly gang sodomized up in Folsom would keep their grubby fingers off those keypads while they're driving.

Cheers!

Rick...

As Sauron says, the difference is usually statutory. The kinds of crimes that are going to get you into the state prison system are worse generally than the County where you committed them usually involving longer sentences. There are some exceptions, such as overcrowding forcing officials to put some in one or the other. For example, you could be awaiting trial in one with a sentence expected to get you into the other. Culturally, the prison takes the dangers of county jail a magnitude further. The kinds of people who are facing long sentences or who are never going to get out, career criminals, people who cannot seem to stay out of the criminal justice system or who actually want to be there. The class of people has sometimes been described as convicts vs. inmates.

i wouldn't be opposed to prison for people who text while driving.

the boss at my last job in canada before i moved to japan ran over a cyclist and nearly killed him because he was busy texting while driving his giant suv

totally irresponsible, cars are not toys you're driving 2000+ lbs of metal at high speed, if your attention span is so short you cannot refrain from texting until the next traffic light you don't deserve to drive.

pretty simple IMO.

driving is thought of as a right in north america (and some other countries), this is a mistake, i think. people get to thinking that texting while driving is OK, or drinking and driving is OK as long as you don't crash. stupidity. some day, you WILL crash - whether or not you kill an innocent family in the process is the unknown factor.