While we are at it, why not ban “driving with children” and “driving while upset”. If that doesn’t work, we could always go to a five (5) mph national speed limit – and you thought that “Bambi” was going to slow down the economy!
I agree – I drive over 800 miles during the work week. My car IS my office. I have used my cell phone while driving daily for almost 18 yrs. Yes, I used to have the huge brick phone. My car has boothtooth in the radio and I log over 2000 min a month, mostly while driving. I am a female & have not had a single car accident while on the phone. I don’t think talking and driving are any more dangerous then someone smoking & driving or messing with the radio. Keep the government OUT of our lives.
Lets be realistic, not talking on the phone while driving won’t happen. I must agree that it is annoying when you see a BAD driver talking on the phone. Actually, when I get caught being a BAD driver while talking on the phone, I get embarrassed. All I am saying is you have these Not For Profit organizations who have nothing else to do but keep finding another thing to ***** about. MADD is now looking to put breathlizers on EVERYBODY’s car with or without being convicted of a DUI. Things are just getting a little insane. Pull people over if they are chatting on their handheld- ok. Start teaching that you are not to use your cell phone to the 15 year old drivers ed students- ok. What is that saying again, the most effective prison is when the prisoners don’t know they are in one.
Change of times, change of laws- AGREE but lets slow this down a bit.
I wondered what idots put us on the seat belt law so bureacrates can collect fines. Now it’s phones. Airline pilots and all pilots should not be talking with tower & ATC while shooting complicate landings, approaches and weather related courses.
I couldn’t agree with you more KKSMO!!
I am too a women driver, not in one accident, drive 800 miles a week for business and need and relish this time between states to work and catch up with my life.
I agree completely. Put the ban in place; the great majority of people are law abiding and will comply. It will be safer overall even if those few don’t go along.
Hopefully there will be less drivers out there to have to honk at…(I have been re-ended twice by drivers on cell phones…..the first thing I do after I come to a complete stop is look in my rear-view mirror. If they are on a phone, I honk my horn!)
If a driver wants to come out of a driveway in an area where traffic is backed up, the first thing I do is see if they are on the phone. If they are, they won’t be let in by me. Those of you who think you are above these numbers in the study, think again. You have been lucky to this point.
I’m tired of these single issue lobbying groups who want to take away one or another of our freedoms in the name of safety. Little by little our freedoms are being assaulted by these groups and we the lilly-livered Americans are allowing ourselves to be manipulated into buying it. The cumulative effect is that we are becomming a society that is enslaving itself. Thomas Jefferson said that a society that will sacrafice its freedoms for safety will end up being neither free nor safe. We have got to stop this trend in America of trying to prevent certain outcomes by outlawing individual freedoms. One day we’ll wake up in a country that says United States but feels like 1950’s Soviet Union of Red China. How safe was the individual in those countries.
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While we are at it, why not ban “driving with children” and “driving while upset”. If that doesn’t work, we could always go to a five (5) mph national speed limit – and you thought that “Bambi” was going to slow down the economy!
Glenf you are too funny!!!!
I agree – I drive over 800 miles during the work week. My car IS my office. I have used my cell phone while driving daily for almost 18 yrs. Yes, I used to have the huge brick phone. My car has boothtooth in the radio and I log over 2000 min a month, mostly while driving. I am a female & have not had a single car accident while on the phone. I don’t think talking and driving are any more dangerous then someone smoking & driving or messing with the radio. Keep the government OUT of our lives.
Lets be realistic, not talking on the phone while driving won’t happen. I must agree that it is annoying when you see a BAD driver talking on the phone. Actually, when I get caught being a BAD driver while talking on the phone, I get embarrassed. All I am saying is you have these Not For Profit organizations who have nothing else to do but keep finding another thing to ***** about. MADD is now looking to put breathlizers on EVERYBODY’s car with or without being convicted of a DUI. Things are just getting a little insane. Pull people over if they are chatting on their handheld- ok. Start teaching that you are not to use your cell phone to the 15 year old drivers ed students- ok. What is that saying again, the most effective prison is when the prisoners don’t know they are in one.
Change of times, change of laws- AGREE but lets slow this down a bit.
I wondered what idots put us on the seat belt law so bureacrates can collect fines. Now it’s phones. Airline pilots and all pilots should not be talking with tower & ATC while shooting complicate landings, approaches and weather related courses.
I couldn’t agree with you more KKSMO!!
I am too a women driver, not in one accident, drive 800 miles a week for business and need and relish this time between states to work and catch up with my life.
I agree completely. Put the ban in place; the great majority of people are law abiding and will comply. It will be safer overall even if those few don’t go along.
Hopefully there will be less drivers out there to have to honk at…(I have been re-ended twice by drivers on cell phones…..the first thing I do after I come to a complete stop is look in my rear-view mirror. If they are on a phone, I honk my horn!)
If a driver wants to come out of a driveway in an area where traffic is backed up, the first thing I do is see if they are on the phone. If they are, they won’t be let in by me. Those of you who think you are above these numbers in the study, think again. You have been lucky to this point.
How can you tell?
The people who are holding their phone up to their ear so they can’t see what’s beside them when they decide to move over annoy me.
But how can you tell someone who is singing with the radio, talking to themselves, or talking on hands free?
I’m tired of these single issue lobbying groups who want to take away one or another of our freedoms in the name of safety. Little by little our freedoms are being assaulted by these groups and we the lilly-livered Americans are allowing ourselves to be manipulated into buying it. The cumulative effect is that we are becomming a society that is enslaving itself. Thomas Jefferson said that a society that will sacrafice its freedoms for safety will end up being neither free nor safe. We have got to stop this trend in America of trying to prevent certain outcomes by outlawing individual freedoms. One day we’ll wake up in a country that says United States but feels like 1950’s Soviet Union of Red China. How safe was the individual in those countries.