I appreciate you keeping my anecdote in perspective. I think I'll still not text and drive, however, and continue to pester those who do.
Go to town. I just think it's important to keep all this stuff in perspective: I grew up in cars with steering columns that would spear you like a butterfly and now Takata is recalling eighty million airbags because eleven people have died. I grew up with no car seat. My sister had one of these: My daughter? Fuckin' Ham the chimp didn't have it that good when he went into orbit and my kid rawks that on the way to the babysitter's. Yeah, there are shitty drivers and yeah, texting is a whole new challenge but growing up "drunk driving" was a 0.14 and we had drive-up liquor windows. Driving is not more dangerous now.
Lets be honest .08 drunk driving is not about safety its about revenue. Having .08 in your blood makes you no more likely to crash than someone who is just tired. The drunk driving shit has gotten totally out of hand. All sorts of crazy proposals to lower it to .04 as a back door way to bring in a new era of prohibition.