The "widening and improvements" for the interstate specified in the final bill had morphed in the post-vote text into "Coconut Road Interchange".
Mr. Herzog's interviews with the mother of a child paralyzed from the diaphragm down after being hit by a texting driver, and with a man who struck an Amish family while sending a text on the road, show how everyday messages like "I love you" and "I'm on my way" proved devastating.
One fan we met was a former inmate of Mansfield Reformatory who had renounced a life of drugs and crime to become a trainee pastor, and who considered The Shawshank Redemption to be a touchstone text on his road to salvation.
But the brain doesn't work that way; we may think we are seeing both, the text and the road in front of us, but we are not.
Last month, lawmakers in New Jersey introduced a bill seeking to punish people who walk and text on the road with a $50 fine, 15 days in jail, or a combination of the two. .
Solo texts from the road: We are leaving downtown.
The markings in the texts were like road maps.
And no matter what the text indicates, all roads lead to bed.
But the companies — though they offer manual ways to shut down texting on the road — do not deploy technology that takes the decision out of drivers' hands altogether.
There will always be other idiots, drunks, and people texting on the road.
Many consider Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" sacred text.
