NTSB recommends full ban on use of cell phones while driving
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/13/us/ntsb-cell-phone-ban/index.html
I am morally opposed to creating laws impossible to enforce uniformly. If we presume it is totally OK for passengers to use the phones (I find it hard to argue otherwise), then it becomes essentially impossible to prove that the driver was using the phone if there are any passengers in the car. Indeed, with these many smart phones, the phone itself can be busy doing things without the user’s participation, so how to know someone is using a phone without actually seeing them do it. And what the hell is with this exception of ‘devices installed in the vehicle by the manufacturer would be allowed,’? Hands free is not OK, but doing it without your hands is? What the hell is the distinction?
The cops, btw, already have laws that ban distracted driving (which, clearly, means special laws for DUI are unnecessary), but don’t bother to enforce these laws any more than they enforce speeding, etc. Why should drivers give a damn about yet another law if they know it is so selectively enforced that the probability they will be caught is essentially zero.
And if someone is using one of those blue tooth ear dongles, how to tell they are on the phone and not talking to themselves? Why not ban passengers as they could be a distraction as well? Eating, drinking and smoking are certainly distractions, lets ban that as well. Also, pretty girls in other cars or walking down the road, they are certainly distractions, we got to ban all them as well. I really hate it when the sun shines in my eyes, lets ban that too.
Really, people, at some point you need to be responsible for your own actions. What a shithole our society has become!
