Car dashboards look more like video games everyday. From navigation, to even Facebook and Twitter right in your car it all leads to distractions, which has the Feds worried. It also worries Gerald Ackert whose car is also his office.
"I'm a pizza delivery driver," Ackert said.
Ackert says that's why he is a strong supporter of cracking down on distracted driving.
"You wouldn't believe how many accidents I almost had because young teenagers are swerving, or even older people texting and driving," Ackert said.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed a rule to regulate the new technology.
It wants car companies to have a feature that would lock texting, looking at Facebook, dialing, or even typing into the GPS when the car is in motion.
Some people say they don't care if it's state or federal that passes a law but something needs to be done.
"They're seeing that its impacting a lot of lives a lot of people lose family members its getting serious," Canden Hicks said.
"I mean people get killed, your not paying attention when your texting," Amber Davis said.
But not everyone agrees.
"I just don't think we should be told what to do," Derek Billingsley said.
Greer City Police Chief Dan Reynolds says all these laws are made with good intentions but making the laws is the easy part.
"People shouldn't be doing that but from an enforcement perspective its very difficult practically to enforce," Chief Reynolds said.
But the DOT says numbers don't lie and you can't dispute the fact that thousands are dying because peoples eyes aren't on the road.
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