Email driving: Risky thrill sport, or just plain stupidity?

I think this is dangerous.
However, cooking breakfast in my auto microwave is not!

http://www.hardwaresphere.com/2008/08/16/portable-microwave-powered-by-cars-cigarette-lighter-socket/

Nothing beats paiella at 80 mph!

How about "stupid thrill"!

Just plain stupidity on this guy's part and on the people writing software for phones. The problem with current software and in dealing with people on the road is that there's not a good speech to text (and tts) software option.

Sometimes you get a text and they don't know you're driving, or don't care, because you have to impress this person at a (sometimes new) job or you're dating someone new or some other situation where timing is important. But to text (or email, god forbid) while you're driving is not smart. A phone without physical buttons makes this worse. Then again sometimes you're between a rock and a hard place. Personally I consciously try not to text at all while driving. Sometimes I will at a stoplight if I can't just pull over, but I wish I had a better option. And there should be a better option.

Phone software needs to be made so that people can easily communicate while driving in a safe manner via text based systems. If you're going to have a phone that can communicate in several different ways besides voice, and you live in a country that relies on driving a car in 95% of places, then creating software to do this and prevent accidents should really be a top priority.

Simply saying it's against the rules is ineffective and not any kind of real solution.

its funny every u ask hate people who text while driving if u do a survey in north America 98 % people would call it a stupidity but still i see so much people doing it

That app looks cool, but I wonder if there's a jailbreak version that enables the camera view in the native mail app?
I email and walk/bike/drive all the time. People will always be distracted by something, even if their own thoughts, so I don't see what the big deal is.

Simple solution: the developers of Email'n'Walk can use an optical flow algorithm to detect when the scene through the camera is changing more rapidly than would be expected from someone moving at a walking pace. When it detects this condition, the software can lock the iPhone, thus frustrating the would-be Email'n'Driver.

If you make it alive, its a sport.
If you lose yourself, we consider it stupidity.

That guy is an idiot and a menace to others. What an ignorant self-centered moron. Sadly he is probably not unique.

@webterractive:

That's one of the dumbest comments I've ever heard. Are you retarded, or what?

"Risky thrill sport" should not even be on the list of possible answers to this question. Risky sports do not endanger the lives of all the people around you! Composing email while driving should be considered criminal negligence, if you ask me. Just plain unacceptable. And the same goes for texting, which is exactly the same type of activity.