Good  morning all,

I waited for a few days before posting information from the Delaware Office of Highway Safety, which reported that Delaware State Police were using   nontraditional vehicles,   including vans to enforce distracted driving laws.

It seemed to be an interesting story, but hardly earthshaking. After all, the crackdown had only netted a couple of dozen tickets over the period of a few days.

Thousands of people thought otherwise and the story was one of the most read in weeks.

Meanwhile, stories of Hondas and Volkswagens being used in the operations surfaced in social media shares. In one case,  the vehicle might have been spotted in Maryland.

Newark Police were extremely aggressive in their efforts.

According to a recent press release, police in the college town wrote more than 180 tickets, including 63 for cell phone handset use.

I would imagine that many of us, after reading the stories looked a little bit closer at the driver in the next lane.

I did and found more than a few people looking at their cell phones.

Of course, nothing will top the sight several years ago of a Jeep with no doors and a driver texting away at 70 miles an hour.

These days, vehicles have a form of distraction that is fully legal in the form of increasingly large video screens that help in backing up and other tasks, but also comes with other gizmos that can distract drivers.

The technology, which will save many lives, clearly has its downsides.

Enjoy your weekend and don’t look at that phone or video screen when something buzzes.  – Doug Rainey, Publisher