Posted on 12/14/2011 8:17:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON — Texting, emailing or using a cellphone while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed anywhere, federal safety investigators declared Tuesday, recommending that all states impose a total ban except for emergencies.
Inspired by recent deadly crashes — including one in which a teen-ager sent or received 11 text messages in 11 minutes before an accident — the recommendation would apply even to hands-free devices, a much stricter rule than any current state law.
The unanimous recommendation by the five-member National Transportation Safety Board would make an exception for devices deemed to aid driver safety such as GPS navigation systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I read somewhere that eating, drinking, applying makeup, playing with the radio, and inserting CD and cassettes while driving cause more accidents that cell phone use.
I read somewhere that eating, drinking, applying makeup, playing with the radio, and inserting CD and cassettes while driving cause more accidents than cell phone use.
Yeah, sometimes I’ll check email (or at least read the subject lines) at red lights too, though I try to avoid actual text entry until I’m off the road.
Texting and emailing while driving are stupid. I don’t believe the studies that say talking on a cellphone is as dangerous as drunk driving. This list says otherwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
This is a list of motor vehicle deaths in the United States by year. On average in 2009, 93 people were killed on the roadways of the U.S. each day.
The number of deaths – and deaths relative to the total population – have declined over the last two decades. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 14.97% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35.46%. Traffic fatalities in 2010 were the lowest in 62 years.
Good luck enforcing a cell phone ban on the american public. I can drive, talk on the phone and watch for cops. Nobody will obey a law like this.
Same goes for snow.
BS. Cites and states where texting and phone use is banned see no statistical improvement in accident prevention. More nanny statism.
I am glad the Obama Admin. is bringing this out. It will truly endear him to his moonbat base.
How about they ban teen girls from saying “ohmagawd” and “awesome” more than 5000 times in a 3 minute time period while on a cellphone?
If you are going to ban cells including Bluetooth hands free, you must logically ban talking to and listening to passengers conversation. Idiots!
I don't text when driving and I generally use hands free device for talking when driving. I do remember early one night I pulled over too text in a parking lot and a cop almost imediately pulled up too see what I was doing. You just can't win. Control Freaks run our government and Control Freaks wanting Nanny State Protection laws will vote for them. It's all for da children ya know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E
According to the article this is just a recommendation from an agency of the federal government to the states, so I think the First Amendment would cover it.
So this calls for the typical solution of bureaucrats. Dumb down, drum down and tie down all of society to the lowest bar and common denominator set by the dumbest and most irresponsible 1% of the masses.
“But you people here are more concerned with “your rights” than people’s safety?”
Well, how ‘bout we just declare automobiles illegal? Traffic deaths solved!
Seriously, though. What we’re seeing is progressive dumbing down of the citizenship to the point where we’re all going to be non-thinking wards of the government, incapable of making (and abiding by) our own choices.
Just for the record, to earn a private pilots certificate, you have to be able to fly an airplane while planning a new flight to another destination, and stay in communication with ATC concurrently.
The real solution here is better driver training, NOT making multitasking illegal for those capable of it.
I call BS. As Dennis Prager says, when a study reaches an absurd conclusion that contradicts common sense, don't believe it.
Do you really think accidents are up 28% (or however the math works out) since the advent of cell phones? Of course you don't. Nobody with a brain does, including whoever concocted the bogus study. So why do you parrot something so absurd that somebody smart enough to construct the sentences you did couldn't possibly believe?
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