Re: US may disable all in-car mobile phones

Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The US government may require cars to include scrambling tech that would
> disable mobile-phone use by drivers, and perhaps passengers.

Maybe we should ban radios and passengers (particularly children) from
cars as well.

> In a Tuesday blog post announcing an online video series, "Faces of
> Distracted Driving", which presents first-person accounts of
> distracted-driving tragedies, LaHood noted that "Just last year, nearly
> 5,500 people were killed and 500,000 more were injured in distracted
> driving-related crashes.

I'd be interested to see a breakdown of how many of these distractions
were phones and what the other distractions were.

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