Verizon Supports Senate's Ban of Texting /Emailing While Driving

Yesterday, legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate that would ban texting and e-mailing while driving. The proposed legislation, called the ALERT Act, was introduced by U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Kay Hagen (D-NC). Verizon sent out a news release to support the bill.

Verizon Wireless vice president and general counsel Steven E. Zipperstein made the following statement:

"We support federal legislation to ban texting and e-mailing while driving. This approach is a logical extension of our previous breaks with other wireless companies to support state-wide legislation banning texting and e-mailing while driving. We applaud Senator Schumer and the Senate sponsors for their leadership."

Car and Driver recently did a study and found texting while driving to be worse than drinking while driving.