NTSB: No cell phones while driver, period (death, felony, doctor)
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Before cell phone people were still doing distracting things and killing other people in the process. Putting make up on, eating, drunk/drugged driving, falling asleep at the wheel, and then came cell phones the worst of the bunch. If there were none of this you would still have bad drivers. There are drivers who could not walk down the street and chew chewing gum at the same time who now have cell phones to talk and text while they put their make up on or eat a two handed sandwich. I even seen one video that had caught a driver reading a book as he drove.
If you don't have the good sense to know you shouldn't be doing these distractions while driving then you shouldn't be driving at all. If you kill a person while distracted instead of vehicular homicide you should be charged with first degree manslaughter and put away for twenty five years.
I agree, a total ban on all phone usage in a moving vehicle ASAP.
Just today I was heading home after taking my mother to the eye doctor. We had to drive past a hospital and I observed a woman stop on the street to turn around. I waited she pulled into a parking space and then backed up to turn around. Okay, not the smartest thing to do but I've been there where you're a little distracted if you have to go to the hospital. She turned around and then put her right turn signal on to head into the hospital main entrance stop sign and then made a left, the way I was going. Okay, she was an older driver so I figured she was turned around or lost. I followed her and she made a left at the next stop sign and I went straight. She was on a cell phone the whole time.
Three times out of four when I see somebody make a bad judgment call while driving they're on a cell phone.
Just today I was heading home after taking my mother to the eye doctor. We had to drive past a hospital and I observed a woman stop on the street to turn around. I waited she pulled into a parking space and then backed up to turn around. Okay, not the smartest thing to do but I've been there where you're a little distracted if you have to go to the hospital. She turned around and then put her right turn signal on to head into the hospital main entrance stop sign and then made a left, the way I was going. Okay, she was an older driver so I figured she was turned around or lost. I followed her and she made a left at the next stop sign and I went straight. She was on a cell phone the whole time.
Three times out of four when I see somebody make a bad judgment call while driving they're on a cell phone.
Pretty much every time you see a car drastically slow down on the freeway, or start drifting off the lane, or make sudden corrections to stay on the lane, or a driver failing to see a light turn green, it's a driver on a cell phone. It seems to be the case 9 out of 10 times. This is a serious public safety issue.
I agree, a total ban on all phone usage in a moving vehicle ASAP.
Yup, then ban loose change, children in the back seat, radios, CD players, iPods, books, make-up, roadside billboards, chatty passengers, yadda-yadda.....
Oh, and have the appointed bureaucrats in the federal government decide, let them ban them all, cuz we can't sit back and tolerate the idiots who vote in the states to decide, nor allow input from their elected representatives in their states decide either.
Pretty much every time you see a car drastically slow down on the freeway, or start drifting off the lane, or make sudden corrections to stay on the lane, or a driver failing to see a light turn green, it's a driver on a cell phone. It seems to be the case 9 out of 10 times. This is a serious public safety issue.
Should it be an issue decided upon by the federal government?
Lets start giving driver's a competency test to see if they can drive and talk on a hands free... any driver who doesn't pass has to have a big red X sticker on their vehicle so that people know to back off...
wait, this sounds fascist....
Can't ban people doing stuff, always will happen, law or not. We don't need a law for this.
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