Saletan:

I haven’t thought it through very far. But temperamentally, I’m for more freedom and more responsibility. So my instinct would be to lower the age while severely punishing impaired driving. And when I say impaired, I don’t mean just booze. I mean cell phones, sleep deprivation, and sex acts while the car is moving.

Have any of you seen a study that compares the degree of driving impairment caused by various blood-alcohol levels with the degree of driving impairment caused by talking on a cell phone (even with speakerphone or headphone)? I’d like to see the data. I’ll throw in $1,000 if the study includes a third group of subjects who were getting blow jobs at the wheel, plus my life savings if the participants were randomly assigned.

I haven’t thought responsibility through very far. So my instinct would be to randomly throw my life savings at the wheel of blow jobs to see the sex acts caused by booze.