Re: US may disable all in-car mobile phones

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Bruce Geerdes
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:41 AM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] US may disable all in-car mobile phones

> 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.

**and little dogs on your laps too.

> 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.

***like shaving and make up? Eating a big mac?  I have seen people reading in
traffic, so let's ban books from cars.

***I HATE these laws, as they ignore the fact that there are already laws for
distracted driving.



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