“as well as a ban on cellphone use or texting while driving. “
I have a cell phone for one reason only. I’m on 24 hour, 365 days a year emergency call for a Public Utility that I’ve operated for thirty years. If a ban on cell phone use in cars is instituted, I better get an “exemption” sticker for my car! Same goes for Doctors, emergency workers, etc., etc..
What’s wrong with pulling off the road to text or use a cell phone? One report calls driving while using the hand held phone four times more dangerous than DUI. Thanks only to very surprising physical coordination on my part, I averted by about two feet a head-on collision with a group of teenagers a few months ago who veered into my lane at about 70 mph while the driver was texting; I turned the wheel of my SUV 90 degrees at 60 mph, went down an embankment and am lucky not to have rolled over. I wasn’t angry; and was most happy that they were not hurt.
Agree. To ban cellphones is plain nonsense. There are hands free phones and other things that one can talk if they have to without holding a phone. Besides,,I don’t like that blanket metality that you BAN something cause some dope behaves in such a manner. I too carry a cell phone and it is my security and safety blanket when I am alone in the car. I do not pick it up and yak, yak, yak like some people do...even in the stores yaking to their friends about this or that and exposing the rest of us to their nonsensical chatter. Make the call stae your business and get off the phone. Especially when you are driving OR pull over to make that call. It is not the phone...it is the person using the phone and you can’t punish everyone becuase of all the dopes out there in t he world who aren’t responsible. Lord rest the souls of those bikers. They didn’t deserve that.