Driver livestreams on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago
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·November 8, 2025ApolloFortyNine
DontchaKnowit
Thats the christian ethos
xnx
Recording social media while driving should be totally unacceptable.
Jon Caramanica records pop music reviews for the New York Times while driving. It's completely asinine.
ncr100
(Re USA) Over 30 States ban holding your phone while driving
All States except for Montana ban texting while driving
No States ban complete non-usage of cell phones while driving
toomuchtodo
https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/drivers/traffic-safety/dis...
> Illinois law prohibits the use of electronic communication devices to write, send, or read text messages, emails, or other electronic communications while driving.
> In 2024, legislation went into effect that also made it illegal to use teleconferencing apps, watch videos, or access social media sites while driving.
> Drivers who are in a crash resulting from distracted driving may face criminal penalties and incarceration.
gruez
What's the difference between "other electronic communications" and "teleconferencing apps", compared to a phone call? Or is there a specific carve out for that?
gavinsyancey
The reading of the first law sounds like it's oriented towards textual communication; the second law expands it to include video as well. AIUI neither one bans a voice-only phone call so long as you are looking at the road and not your phone.
do_not_redeem
> complete non-usage of cell phones while driving
Well, this would also ban things like GPS, or hooking up Spotify to your steering wheel media buttons.
I think targeting texting + social media is the right approach.
montroser
We now need an ignition interlock device for these people -- that will shut down the car if there's a phone inside that's not in airplane mode. Like they have for DUI doofuses.
helterskelter
Crimes committed on or for social media (whether for likes or just by negligence, ie, distracted by your app while driving) should automatically get an additional sentence. Same idea as hate crimes, just for social media.
gruez
>Crimes committed on or for social media (whether for likes or just by negligence, ie, distracted by your app while driving) should automatically get an additional sentence.
Sounds like something that could be easily abused for cracking down on filming police or similar. Filming ICE agents arresting someone and posting on tiktok? "obstruction of justice", plus they're obviously doing it "for social media". Same for whistleblowers or security researchers.
montroser
Yeah, because it's just extra stupid and tragic. If kids are involved then the extra sentence should quadruple.
bronson
Clout enhancement clause
lukan
There are also other passengers who could use it without problem.
So no. We simply need to take away the driving licence of such people.
toomuchtodo
Car still starts without a license is the problem, and these people do not care.
>Lucas’s son-in-law, Chris King, told the Lake and McHenry County Scanner that news of the video made his family “hold our loss tighter to our hearts”.
>“We … will continue to pray for what the driver must be going through,” King reportedly said. “We are trying to find our ways to live, without someone we cherished so much.”
Damn, I wouldn't be saying anything like praying for the driver after something like that.