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Video: Att_texting_full_length   In early 2010, 11Alive launched
The Great Hang Up. Our road test proved talking and texting
while driving is dangerous. Thousands of you signed the Great
Hang-Up Pledge. Since then, Georgia passed a no-texting while
driving law. But if you drive Metro-Atlanta roads, you know:
it's still happening.  This week, there are new efforts to have
drivers make a New Year's Resolution. A new gut-wrenching
documentary provides new ammunition.  It's a scene you could
pick up in any high school parking lot in America: a flurry of
fingers.  "I text every day from 500 to 700 texts a day"
"Texting is pretty much an everyday part of my life"  "I text
more than I call, more than I e-mail, maybe more than I talk."
"Everyday? 500 to 600. It's a steady stream"    But for a group
of teens in Walton County, it all stops when the engine starts.
"I'm pretty sure no one's ever go