DUP: Driving Under the Influence of Porn

Posted on March 11, 2004

TV screens inside vehicles are already causing problems. CNN is reporting that a bizarre new crime is on the rise: driving while watching porn. Apparently, those TV screens in the minivans and Mercedes aren't just being used to play cartoons to keep the kids amused on long drives. Nope. People are loading up the porn in the old DVD player and driving off to work. Other motorists, pedestrians and even kids are getting an eyeful at stoplights. The driver is this particular incident found out that this behavior is illegal in New York.

Is this what we've come to? People can't even drive to the grocery store without making sure their favorite porn movie is keeping them company? Keep it off the streets, folks. It's bad enough that the number one cause of car accidents today, acording to AAA, is people not paying attention to the road because they're talking on a cell phone or changing a radio station. Now we have to deal with drivers who are watching snuff films while driving, forcing everyone else at the stoplight to share their taste in erotica.

Remember the traffic grid in Minority Report where a computer controlled all vehicular traffic in the city? Where you just get in and tell the computer where you want to go? I think that is one futuristic idea whose time has come.