Surely there was at least one fatality from someone writing a letter while driving.
Is that texting though? All texting is writing but not all writing is texting.
They had radio teletype back then. That would be much closer to texting. You would need a van to haul the RTTY station around in though.
Now do drunk driving.
And seatbelts
“I don’t need your dern seatbelts. I prefer to be thrown safely clear of the crash!”
There is a radio dj where I live who likes to joke “the windshield is my seatbelt”. Because he used to not wear a seatbelt, until he went through his windshield
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I remember prematurely scoffing at this notion in regards to early formula 1
But with the context that the driver stuck out like this, and the cars were more likely than not to go up in flames in an accident, I’d say it might actually very well have been safer without.
But, yeah, it of course makes no sense in consumer cars.
Clearly they hadn’t invented a car telephone that could text yet. Even the one from 1965 couldn’t do it.
