Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving

CWmike writes "A two-day Distracted Driving Summit in Washington concluded Thursday, after experts raised multiple thorny questions on how to reduce cell phone and texting while driving, with a big emphasis placed on driver and employer responsibility. But that was not before President Obama signed an executive order that tells all federal employees not to engage in texting while driving government vehicles. [US Transportation Secretary Ray] LaHood also announced that his department would ban text messaging altogether and restrict cell phone use by truck and interstate bus drivers, and disqualify school bus drivers from receiving commercial driver's licenses if they have been convicted of texting while driving. His department also plans to make permanent some restrictions placed on the use of cell phones in rail operations, he added without offering further details. The executive order 'shows the federal government is leading by example' and 'sends a signal that distracted driving is dangerous,' LaHood said."

Re:Just federal employees?

[clickety6]

and it's impossible to compose a text message while simultaneously maintain the necessary level of attention to driving.

Rubbish! I'm writing this on my iPhone right now and I am safely in control of this vehic

 

Re:Lame headline?

[Ihlosi]

Why not "texting or driving" next time? "The last time I looked in a dictionary, "or" was no closer to "while" than "and".

Hand in your geek card.

if(employee.is_texting && employee.is_driving)
{
fire(employee);
}

Re:Lame headline?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod points really are like condoms, you never have them when you need them. I wish I could mod you insightful.

Re:Lame headline?

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, there was a serious bug in this program. Due to namespace issues, fragile base class problems, etc, the call was mapped to Kiln::fire() rather than Employer::fire(). It is regrettable that this has resulted in a substantial loss of life. Appropriate steps have been taken to improve coding standards and developer training to ensure that this won't happen again.