Re: US may disable all in-car mobile phones
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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> 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. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot