.@NHTSAgov responding on Twitter to drivers who admit texting & driving | The @Verge

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is the federal body tasked with automotive safety, as its name implies — and sometimes, you just have to take your message straight to the people.

If you look at NHTSA's Twitter feed right now, you'll find that it's just a non-stop stream of burns aimed at people who admit — sometimes gleefully — that they text and drive: . . .

For what it's worth, NHTSA is right: countless studies have linked texting in the driver's seat with higher accident rates, and Werner Herzog himself has made a film about it.

As federal social media campaigns go, this is pretty clever.

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.@NHTSAgov responding on Twitter to drivers who admit texting & driving | The @Verge

MoBikeFed comment: Texting & driving is dumb. Who is dumb enough to do it and then brag about it? Apparently a lot of people, and it is good to see a campaign that starts puts a little social shaming on people who brag about doing something that is both terribly dangerous and illegal.

You can see Herzog's video about texting & driving here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/9/4604962/werner-herzog-from-one-second-t...