DOT to ban phones in cars

[The Josh]

Bloody phones. What did youse do before mobiles? Wait until you arrived at your destination. No need to have it on in the car. Nothing is that important that it can't wait. If you're on a long trip, then pull over and check. Bloody mobiles. They're a health hazard all round.

As my Dad likes to call them job security. I can't count the number of EMS calls my Dad has run over the years of people using their phones while driving.

 

[ShadowX81]

There are people plenty capable of driving safely with higher levels.

Yes, exactly. But we make it illegal for everyone. Do you think those laws should be repealed too?

Do you really think that treating everyone like they're as inept as the worst is a solution to the problem of every real or imagined danger you face in day to day life?

Considering how many accidents and deaths this has caused, apparently we do.

I still upbraid cops if they give me a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt.

Thats a completly different kind of law. When you choose not to wear a seatbelt, you make that choice for yourself alone. If you text while drive, you are endangering everyone.

Well then that seals it. Texting is more dangerous than drunk driving, and we all know how well drunk driving laws work. 95% of the time.

Actually they are. I definatly know alot of people that would try driving home if it didn't carry such signifigant penalties.
Im not saying laws work 95% of the time. Im saying that they are there for a good reason that often.
No law is effective. People still murder, steal, and rape; and no laws are going to completly stop those either. But you cant say that it doesnt curb them.
This is a public safety issue that affects everyone on the road. This law will save many lives, and id think that this would be incentive enough.

 

[devilof76]

I do think that drunk driving laws should be repealed. And I think that accidents caused by drunk driving should be classed as felony aggravated assault, and first degree murder in the case of a death. I'm pretty sure that would curb a hell of a lot more than the extortion racket that goes on now.

The conclusion I'm trying to imply with what I've been saying is that the proper purpose of law is not to prevent crime. It can't do that, even in a total state, where no action is legal without government permission.

The purpose is to ensure that justice is done when a crime is commited, or to stop one that is already in progress. If a driver is demonstrably inebriated, then a cop has every right to stop them. But, the idea that a cop can pull you over for a brakelight out, smell alcohol on your breath, administer a sobriety test that you pass and still arrest you, fine you thousands of dollars and revoke your license for a year or more when no one or thing has been injured by your actions is a legal institution that belongs in a police state.

 

[CelticPredator]

We should ban hands. Hands could kill us if we're doing something else other than driving.

 

[CelticPredator]

I do think that drunk driving laws should be repealed. And I think that accidents caused by drunk driving should be classed as felony aggravated assault, and first degree murder in the case of a death. I'm pretty sure that would curb a hell of a lot more than the extortion racket that goes on now.

The conclusion I'm trying to imply with what I've been saying is that the proper purpose of law is not to prevent crime. It can't do that, even in a total state, where no action is legal without government permission.

The purpose is to ensure that justice is done when a crime is commited, or to stop one that is already in progress. If a driver is demonstrably inebriated, then a cop has every right to stop them. But, the idea that a cop can pull you over for a brakelight out, smell alcohol on your breath, administer a sobriety test that you pass and still arrest you, fine you thousands of dollars and revoke your license for a year or more when no one or thing has been injured by your actions is a legal institution that belongs in a police state.

It's almost like these people never saw Minority Report.

 

[Darth Cruel]

No. I was on my side of the road going the speed limit when the drunk lost control, swerved on to my side of the road and hit me head on.

Funny enough the Police did not think it was my fault either.

Maybe it was my fault for not installing James Bond ejector seats

What a weak way to present your point. Is cracking wise the best you can do? I have come to call this the Kent Hovind debate technique.

I have already made my point on this issue and if you care to, you can go back and read it or don't as you prefer.

 

[Starkiller]

Will never happen.

QFT. People have emergencies and need to talk on the phone for certain instances. It's the idiots that don't pay attention that are at fault.


Texting is banned in my parents town, though it's worse I hear...because now people hid their phone will texting, instead of holding it up in front of them looking at the road and back to the phone...now they need to look down and up.

Dumb.

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

We should ban hands. Hands could kill us if we're doing something else other than driving.

well that's a viable solution, without hands we cannot drive either, so problem eliminated.

 

[CelticPredator]

BOOM! Crisis solved. I win the internets.

 

[fosing]

We should ban hands. Hands could kill us if we're doing something else other than driving.

well, receiving blow jobs while driving causes this...

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you dont need hands to get distracted...or satisfied.

 

[BadMoon]

well, receiving blow jobs while driving causes this...

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you dont need hands to get distracted...or satisfied.

Oh Thinner! Very stellar brunette gypsy in that there flick.

 

[fosing]

Oh Thinner! Very stellar brunette gypsy in that there flick.

oh yeaaah. i love that gypsy tease.
juicy bits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBfvXj2zPQ
the same chick who played Tanya in Red Alert 2.