As any driver can tell you (and passengers too, as you will soon see), people texting or using their phones for different reasons while driving their cars are usually a menace to all persons engaged in traffic. And that goes double for those that drive public transportation vehicles such as the buss or subway.

When you have dozens of lives in your care, you cannot afford to be careless. Introducing Aiden Quinn, aged 24, former subway train driver in Boston, currently awaiting prosecution. It seems that our antihero was busy texting his girlfriend when he plowed the subway train he was driving into the back of another such train. How come he didn't notice it? Well, as I said, he was busy looking into the display of his mobile phone, texting his girlfriend who hadn't responded to his call, a call he probably placed while driving the same crowded subway train.

The result? A lot of injured people (not fatally injured, thank God) and serious criminal charges, not to mention an estimated sum of 9.6 million USD to pay. As a result, Boston has just instituted a ban on cellphones for all train operators (strangely enough, such a ban did not exist). But Boston is not the only city confronting itself with this problem: this is a worldwide issue.

Therefore, I suggest two solutions: either invent the teleporter (“Beem me up Scotty!”) or make it so that buss drivers, subway train drivers and so on, leave their mobile phones in their locker before they start working. Accidents caused by persons that are busy talking on their phones or texting their friends are getting too common for comfort. I love technology and gadgets but sometimes I just get the feeling that, with every gadget you buy, an IQ test, as well as a test of common sense and decency should be mandatory.


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