re: Should texting while driving result in the same penalties as dui?

Blue laws, malum prohibitum. Why don't we wait till somebody actually creates a victim before we make everybody jailable or arse rape them with fines?

Some people can drive Tipsy and distracted better than a lot of people can drive Stone sober and looking at the road. How do we make driving and being sleepy illegal? What about driving and staring at the trees through your sunroof? Slippery slope indeed.

If somebody gets in a wreck and it's found that they were negligent as the cause then I'm all for pulling a driver's license for years on end. Make them Uber and public transportation everywhere but to say everybody's an equally poor driver at some arbitrarily established blood alcohol level or to say that everybody just glues their eyeballs to their phone and drives blind when there are clearly people who hold the phone up by the windshield and are able to see everything in front of them, is disingenuous at best and at worst, typical government overreach that police departments are all too eager to accept as a way of cashing-in supplemental funding for their departments