2d, I have to laugh to avoid being so furious my head explodes.
The Feral bureaucracy has to go.
They’re so stupid really, thinking they can stop or control anything. When governments do that, throughout history (oh, I guess they’d have to have honestly studied it to know), everything just goes underground. Everything.
Hey... ban smoking,city bus fumes, ban kitchen knives, gasoline and lawn mowers, swimming pools and diving from rocks.
Eff a nanny state.
“I just wish the government would stop trying to save my life. I don't want to live forever!” Jim from C-town
The long-term goal of the left is to outlaw the automobile and force people onto various mass-transit systems. Buses, subways, high-speed rail, etc., all of which can be used to control free movement.
That is an excellent & somewhat horrifying thought experiment. Kudos!
I keep reading about this ban, and I have to wonder about the hands-free portion. My car has the hands-free built in. One push of a button, and the rest is voice activated. So how are they going to enforce this in this situation? I mean, I have no earpiece, so for all they know I could be singing to the radio or speaking to someone in the backseat. Am I going to get pulled over simply because I’m speaking at all? Besides, no one even bothers to enforce most of the traffic laws already in existence. I was at a light yesterday when a guy blew the red like a big dog, and there was a sheriff’s care on the other side, and he did nothing. So why even bother at this point with more arbitrary and ridiculous nanny state laws?
I see the cell phone restrictions as another attempt to invade the privacy of citizens, by letting LE pull you over and get their eyes (and nose) inside your vehicle on the "suspicion" that you were using the device. In order to get the necessary proof of the offense, they will then have to download all information from your phone using one of those portable devices that were in the news recently and are already being used. EVERY automobile accident will result in the phones being downloaded, to determine whether either of the parties was illegally using their phone.
...And they will download EVERYTHING.
Right on! And what’s with these tyrannical drunk driving laws too? And despotic school zones? I mean, if some idiot is driving home from the bar at 7:00 in the morning and some kid’s trying to get across the street but walks in front of the drunk’s SUV and gets splattered all over the road, just prosecute the drunk for negligent homicide. Don’t restrict MY freedom just because most of my fellow citizens can’t handle theirs!
/sarc some wouldn’t even notice
Dear NTSB - STFU and MYOB
Not a Federal issue or right. However, if a state wants to outlaw cell phone use and driving - heck yes!
Put away the damn phone and drive!
I’ve been thinking EXACTLY the same thing for years — if cars were invented today, there is NO WAY that our benevolent overseers would allow citizens to own and operate one. Never!
Aspirin would be prescription-only, public access to electricity would NEVER be allowed, aircraft would belong strictly to the military, and firearms ... HA!
This is the Nanny State in action, folks. It’s getting worse by the day and still we take no action.
That idea has been abandoned as of yesterday. I read that they woke up and realized it would be unenforceable and would tick off too many people.
When driving with passengers, should it be illegal to talk with them? Will radios be banned from cars?
Becasue after all, we as a people are just too damned stupid to figure out what is dangerous and what is not.
I wish the government would do something about the di-hydrogen monoxide pollution. Where I am you can see it all the time.
Anybody seen talking in a car alone could be pulled over. Can’t ask ON*Star about locations. Imagine paying $100,000 for a car and not being able to use the built in phone.
Why do I think this law won’t apply to government folks or celebrities?
I think this is mistake. Prior stories indicated “hands-free” devices were not part of the proposed ban.