According to the National Safety Council, cell phone use while driving is dangerous and leads to fatalities. It is calling for a ban on the practice.
“The group’s president likens talking on cell phones to drunken driving. She says cell phone use increases the risk of a crash fourfold, and that hands-free cell phones are just as risky as hand held phones.”
The council reviewed over 50 scientific studies before reaching its conclusion. It included a Harvard Center for Risk Analysis that estimates 6 percent of vehicle crashes, about 2,600 deaths and 12,000 serious injuries a year are attributable to cell phone use.
California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Utah and Washington, and the District of Columbia, ban the use of hand-held cell phones behind the wheel.
You want a ban for only 6% of the accidents? ::)
That’s exactly what we need – more laws, more laws, more laws! Any amount of risk is totally unacceptable. We need the gov’t to remove any risk from our daily lives and save us from ourselves. The quickest way to solve any problem is to legislate it out of existence.
And let’s face it, life would be so much better if we had MORE gov’t intrusion in our everyday lives. Wouldn’t it? Life would be so much simpler if we had the gov’t making more and more laws to cover every little thing we do, and thus giving us fewer and fewer decisions that we have to make for ourselves.
Freedom of choice is so overrated.
Ok, if your position is safety then what about these
- Truckers use CBs so let’s ban them
- Other passengers can cause distractions to the driver, so let’s ban passengers.
- Screaming kids can cause distractions, so let’s ban kids in cars.
- Messing with radios/cd players/ipods can cause distractions, so let’s ban those.
- Eating or drinking can cause distractions, so let’s ban food and beverages in cars.
- Reading the label on a new store purchase can be distracting, so let’s ban merchandise in the car.
- Reading anything in the car can be distracting, so let’s ban everything that’s readable (books, newspapers, owners manuals, etc) in the car.
- A bee in car can be distracting, so let’s make a law prohibiting the rolling down of windows so insects can’t get in.
In the town where I live I would say that 70% of the people are driving and talking on there cell phones when I go out, including myself, yet the only accidents here are 98% illegals who are either underage, boozed up, on drugs, or driving broken down shitmobiles with no snow tires, all of which are already illegal….and NOTHING is done about them.
My neighbors kid who was underage and is illegal (there whole family is illegal) caused a head on. The police and ambulance were there and she was walking home. I called the cops and told the dispatch that she was only 13 and illegal. they told me that they already knew that and to suck it up.
this is grandstanding at its finest when ALL THE STATES REVENUES ARE IN THE TOILET THEY NEED THE MONEY FROM TICKETS.
They don’t give a hoot about your safety, and surly not for the unlucky 6% of us that get into an accident with one of them.
Hell, they don’t even impound and posses the cars of illegals so they cant repeat, and there the ones causing most of the accidents.
Cell phones have been around for over 17 years now, and only now they want to ban them? ::)
At a hundred bucks a pop for a ticket, thats a hell of a lot of money that states desperately need, and politicians know that.
Let me ask you this. If this government truly wanted safety for us fellow travelers, why haven’t they put seat belts in ALL BUSES, INCLUDING SCHOOL BUSES? And why haven’t they changed the seats in buses to face the rewards to lesson the chance of injuries?
why?
because, yes it would save lives and injuries…….
BUT IT COST TO MUCH MONEY. ;D
Its the same reason they don’t put up lights and gates at ALL RAILROAD CROSSINGS. The railroads got all that land for pennies on the dollar and have made trillions of dollars yet this government wont force the RR companies to keep us safer..
In fact where I live, off the biggest 4 lane highway in the country I-70, they turned off most if not all of the highway lights at night. This happened when gas prices started to go up. I have lived here for over 20 years and this is the first time the highway lights are turned off. How could this be if this government wants to keep us safe? The highway has been lit for at least the 20 years I have been here. Are you trying to say that this government is failing to protect us here? lol
They don’t care about you or little Johnny’s safety.
Its just like the “red light” camera scam, you know, the one to keep us safe.
Putting a Stop to Red Light Cameras
Monday, January 12th, 2009 By Marc Kilmer
Last year, Americans for Prosperity and COAST were part of a group of organizations that enacted a red-light camera ban in Cincinnati. Red light cameras’ effectiveness as a safety tool is questionable. In fact, there is strong evidence they actually make intersections less safe. It is not questionable, though, that they help enrich local governments, are ripe for abuse, and are a violation of citizens’ privacy.
Now AFP and COAST are bringing their crusade to end this government abuse to Toledo:
The groups will be hosting an organizing meeting for the 2009 campaign on Monday, January 12, 2009 at the Point Place Branch Library, 2727 117th St. Toledo 43611 at 7:00 PM. Members of the public are invited to join the assemblage to help place the initiative on the ballot.
Red light cameras are one in a long-line of proposals that ostensibly advance safety at the expense of liberty. It’s good to see people out there who actually care about liberty battling the nanny state.
The red lights just got busted in most states for shortening the length of the yellow light causing thousands of accidents nation wide, not to mention the problem that these companies that run the lights were getting cuts up to 50%+ off the take for the tickets.
What a great scam, betcha it makes even the mafia blush.
its easy to see the truth, if you just
follow the money
You forgot to mention that this bill, while keeping John Q Public safe, exempts police, fire, EMTs and official government drivers from yacking it up on their cell phones. gee that makes a lot of sense. ‘rolls eyes again’
you want safety?
Lets start with the illegals (impound their damn cars forever), seat belts in school buses (and all buses), rail road lights at crossings and turn back on the lights on the highways, then lets talk about cell phones.
And while were all living in the Nanny State, lets mandate slippers and headgear for all those talking showers or baths, cuzz this government says 6% of all shower accidents are from falling
[Screaming kids can cause distractions, so let's ban kids in cars.]
Remember those “Baby on Board” signs, meant to warn other drivers that the parent might be distracted while driving?
Maybe we just need a sign to warn other drivers that someone might be on the phone: CBOC “Could Be On Cel”
Cool, so according Infowar’s warped logic then we should actually deport native born and legally immigrated Americans since only 6%, if that, of crime is committed by allegedly illegal immigrants.
http://www.rasmusen.org/t/2008/04/illegal-immigrants-cause-21-of-crime.html
GO SPARTANS!!
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and you go out there and enjoy the fucking sunshine.
fuck your great, great grandparents, who didnt know stuff
enjoy your self enslavementboots……ware them with pride…
wow, classy post infowarped.com
careful, your intellect is showing…….
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