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Lawmakers to propose ban on driving while texting | Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20090729/US.Driving.Texting/ - broken link)
Is there nothing this Congress won't propose to take over all the states and limit their freedoms and sovreignty?
They aren't proposing a federal law against texting while driving. What they're proposing is withholding transportation funds from states if their legislatures do not ban texting while driving. Congress has done this before with seatbelt laws and the drinking age.
It sound like a great law to me!!! Texting while driving is extremely dangerous. One recent study showed that doing it make it 23 times more likely to get into an accident. Screw protecting everyone's right to be an idiot! I don't want to be hit by a driver that's texting or even on a cell phone. I don't want to be looking over into someone's car and seeing this... do you?
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The new study, which entailed outfitting the cabs of long-haul trucks with video cameras over 18 months, found that when the drivers texted, their collision risk was 23 times greater than when not texting.
It sound like a great law to me!!! Texting while driving is extremely dangerous. One recent study showed that doing it make it 23 times more likely to get into an accident. Screw protecting everyone's right to be an idiot! I don't want to be hit by a driver that's texting or even on a cell phone. I don't want to be looking over into someone's car and seeing this... do you?
Here in Suffolk County, NY we have had the hands free cell phone law for quite some time. WHAT A JOKE! Years later and people are still driving around holding their cell phones to their ears.
Do you honestly believe that a nanny no texting while driving law is going to put a stop to this?
How much did this 'important piece of legislation' cost the taxpayers?
Lawmakers to propose ban on driving while texting | Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20090729/US.Driving.Texting/ - broken link)
Is there nothing this Congress won't propose to take over all the states and limit their freedoms and sovreignty?
damn that Gov't from trying to stop people from killing people for no good reason.
Here in Suffolk County, NY we have had the hands free cell phone law for quite some time. WHAT A JOKE!
In more ways than one.
Studies have shown that talking on a hands-free cell phone while driving, is just as dangerous as talking on a handheld cell phone while driving.
It's not what your hands are doing, that's dangerous. It's what your mind is doing.
Or rather, it's what your mind ISN'T doing... such as paying attention, watching where you're going, watching traffic around you, etc. Which is equally impaired whether the phone you're talking into, is on the dashboard or in your hand.
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