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IMO people with jammers should be hung.

Don't know
never actually seen one

But the inconvenience of being kicked off the network
Does not even come close to the dangerousness
of poorly attending to the task of
controlling over a ton of steel at expressway speeds
with highly complex maneuvering at unpredictable intervals

I'm a motorcyclist
The most dangerous interaction I've had on the bike
was with a woman talking on a phone
who drifted into my lane
shoving me into the center median at 70 MPH

She never saw me

People talking and texting on phones are a
Clear an Present Danger
to a motorcyclist

I've considered getting a jammer in self defense

I conduct a significant amount of my working interviews with people who are talking to me via their cel phones while driving, the most convenient times for them to chat with me. The more legitimate, successful, entrepreneurial, and prosperous the person, the more likely he or she is speaking to me from a hands-free device. Almost all volunteer the info that they refuse to speak on a hand-held piece while driving NOT for fear of getting a ticket, but because they know and respect their limitations. I rarely deal with someone speaking from a hand-held phone.

Considering that my livelihood hinges on being able to talk to these people, I should agree with driftdiver that folks with jammers "should be hung" and that "there ought to be a law" is just another invasion of freedom. I halfway agree with the latter -- the decision belongs to the states, not the Feds. But I love too many motorcyclists among my family and friends, and live in the thick of too many very fast freeways and city thoroughfares where speed from stoplight to stoplight easily gets up to 55 and 60 mph, to think jammers wouldn't result in a lot of saved lives over morons too self-absorbed to know and respect their own limitations when they endanger the lives of innocents for the vanity of chatting on a cel phone or texting a message.

The most dangerous thing I’ve seen was a motorcyclist (4 actually) who were doing wheelies down the highway. Not to mention all the other things.

Then theres the bikes that passed between me and the truck in the next lane. I was going 80 and the bikes had to be going 120 at least.

Point is people do stupid stuff. Govt regulation is rarely the answer.