I57;m astounded. According to the Daily Caller, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (a Republican) is looking into potentially installing devices into cars that would disable all phones in the vehicle.
“There’s a lot of technology out there now that can disable phones and we’re looking at that,” said LaHood on MSNBC. LaHood said the cellphone scramblers were one way, and also stressed the importance of “personal responsibility.”
The hosts of Morning Joe pushed the secretary about the possibility of requiring scrambling technology installed in vehicles.
“I think it will be done,” said LaHood. “I think the technology is there and I think you’re going to see the technology become adaptable in automobiles to disable these cell phones. We need to do a lot more if were going to save lives.”
Texting and driving is incredibly dangerous. Not only do you put your own life at risk but you also endanger everyone in the car and on the road with you. Talking on the phone is arguably just as bad. I do neither, because I know the dangers and I hope others on the road do too.
But how can LaHood say they will stress 60;personal reponsibility61; when they are looking into completely shutting down any room for individual judgement?
The Department of Transportation is stepping awfully close to, if not over the line of what is and isn57;t appropriate when it comes to government intervention into personal lives.
You might have those 3 words and a lot of time to think about them if you are lucky enough to survive a crash caused by someone talking or texting on a cell phone. That's the proper place to inject those 3 words.
Just this past weekend we went to the Grove City shops, 40 minutes away and saw three drivers talking on rheir cell phones while driving in excess of 70 mph on I-79.
Passing laws against using a cell phone while driving does nothing to stop the insanity of doing so while driving. People don't think they could be in an accident while using their cell phone while driving. look at how many kids are maimed and killed because they are stupid and drive under the influence of alcohol. We have laws and they have been educated against it, yet it happens all the time.
I think the cell phones are used for a lot of important calls and people use them to warn other drivers of impending hazzards and accidents. If they got to make cell phones inoperable in a moving vehicle, let them remain live to receive an incoming message to alert the driver, then kill them until the vehicle is safely parked and the engine is off.
There are enough drivers out there not capable of operating a vehicle safely let alone being further impaired by using a cell phone. Cell phones save lives as well as taking lives. We can't have it both ways.
cell phone laws dont reduce accidents at all, as proven by statistics in california two years after such law went into effect. the government just wants our money. they claimed the tickets were 20 bucks, but that was a lie. they were around $100. i got one the first day of the law in california. i posted about it here, said i would beat it in court, and proceeded to do so. that was fun. :-) i didn't give them a flippen dime, & still talk on my cell phone while driving every day. if that fills someone with fear and paranoia, they have issues.
cell phone laws dont reduce accidents at all, as proven by statistics in california two years after such law went into effect.
To this I say bullshit. If you are not on the phone you may be more apt to be attentive to your driving.
I think they should pass a law that they can confiscate the vehicle if a driver is caught using his/her cell phone while moving. Notice, I said while driving. Make the price of endangering others lives should carry a stiff a penalty as vehicle confiscation.
I know, cell phones don't have any relationship to driving accidents, injuries, and deaths. Just think, if the dog hasn't stopped to shit, he'd have caught the rabbit. Driving with alcohol or drug impairment never caused an accident or death either. Right?