Devlin hit it right on the dot. Its not the talking part its where your brain is. like your reaction time slows down and things like that when you are talking on the phone... Texting is a bit differnt though.

Texting is an entirely different story than talking on a phone while driving.
It requires interaction, and viewing of the screen, to read a text or to make sure you're sending what you want to send.

I myself have only recently started to drive (Not quite a license yet... Few weeks maybe) but just the thought of texting while trying to drive.... It's impossible.
Nothing scares me more than a teenage taking their phone out of their pocket and staring at it for 10 seconds while moving at 60 miles an hour.

I'm with New-Guy, even though I've had a license for a few years. Even when I drive people around, I have to turn off the radio. I can't concentrate on more than one thing at a time...

Limited multitasking, like talking or even texting while driving, is obviously not ridiculous and is possible.

What an odd, unnatural reaction. Ah, well. People are odd. I'm guessing something made them that way.

My grandpa knows someone who reads books while driving. Not books on tape, he actually has the book open on the steering wheel.

Also, is it bad that I lold when that girl fell down in the psa?

There was a highly publicised case in the UK of a lorry (semi truck) driver crashing into a family car on the motorway late at night because he was texting. Everyone in the car was killed and the vehicle was destroyed, however the truck was almost undamaged. It's incredibly dangerous to text, though I admit to having sent the occasional two word text or short phone call when stuck in heavy traffic.

I don't have a problem with the radio - I don't have to concentrate on music but I prefer to listen to talk shows and the like when I'm in slow-moving traffic so I can give them more attention.

Also, I can't believe you laughed at the woman falling over in the Canadian PSA, especially considering the outcome. If you want to laugh at that kind of thing, watch an accident claim company advert seeing as they're generally lame: 'I fell over at work and really bruised my knee!'

LOL I lold right there also... I was just too afraid to speak up.

Assholes of the world--UNITE!

I loled at both videos actually.

Seriously, I find these campaigns totally useless. I don't think anyway is going to drive differently just by trying to make the ads look like an horror film. Instead they should focus in giving driver licenses only to the people that deserves them.

You sound like a youtube comment.

What are they going to do? "Hey that girl doesn't look like she's going to text while driving" "That man doesn't look like he's going to drink and drive"

I refuse to text while driving, I won't pretend to be skilled enough to somehow pay attention to both the road and my screen and I'll only take a call or make one if I'm in a residential area, or somewhere else slow. Sure I can text without looking at the screen but that takes more concentration to do than is worth the pay off of seeing the road.

I text while I drive but I always look at the road, and whenever there is something that requires concentration (like another car) I stop texting and concentrate.

My mom flosses while driving lol.

I don't text, so texting while driving will probably not be a problem.

Actually I just renewed my license a few days ago...and a chick was texting on her cell phone while talking to the DMV lady. I was like hmmm that's a red flag.

If I want to send a text message, I wait until stop lights that I know are going to be longer than a few seconds.