America Moves to Criminalize Cell Phones While Driving

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But do you feel you have rights to do whatever you want with them regardless of how it may impact the safety of others?

Obviously not, as I have said that the state could in theory have just cause to criminalize talking on the cell phone while driving. My position is that the state has not made its case, it does not have the evidence that rewriting the criminal code this way is justified. If it does so anyway then it is an immoral oppressor of the citizens.

There is something call proportion which the US Government consistently demonstrates that it does not understand, or more likely chooses to act like it does not understand as it continues to grab for more power.

Why would I even worry about people using cells while they drive when no one is doing a thing about people who can't drive while not using a phone?

Your position seems to be that you disagree with the case and recommendation the NTSB has made. From there you just extrapolated that information in to a 'the government is trying to destroy us' scenario.

Re: the reality of this becoming law, I could see a compromise happening and only hands-free cel phones being allowed, which I think we can all agree is certainly better than the alternative.

Most Americans — 88 percent according to one survey — acknowledge that cellphone use while driving is dangerous. But in the same survey by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 35 percent of drivers said they had read or sent a text message while driving in the past month. Sixty-seven percent said they had talked on a cellphone while driving in the past month, and almost a third said they do it regularly.

It all depends upon how many Deaths and Injuries.....as I have said already in this thread I Dont think that the government has either sound enough numbers nor high enough numbers to win its case.

"if it saves just one life" is the motto of damn fools.

..said everyone who has ever driven while impaired.

I long ago became convinced that the individual is being abused at the hands of the state, and this call to criminalize cell phone use by drivers on the back of extremely flimsy justification for doing so is just one line with-in pages of evidence that I have accumulated over the years to support my thesis.

IRFRANK wrote:
Hawkeye - how do you feel about speed limits?

Hawkeye - how do you feel about speed limits?

We now have vast amounts of time and gas wasted and car breaks used up for no damn reason at all other than a vanity project on the part of the church which the city complied with.

- slower MPH doesn't waste gasoline, it saves gasoline. Study up on the internal combustion engine some, mkay?

Are you aware of the fact that a large part of your persona revolves around complaining about things? That you could accurate be described as a complainer?

Did you not take any physics at all??? If you go from 45mph, slow to 20mph for a few hundred yards, and then speed back up to 45mph your energy use will be greatly less efficient than if you had maintained the 45mph speed. Most of the energy will be spent making heat in the brake pads..and will cause them to ware down.