[Red Badger]

Another LAW! That's the ticket! We just don't have enough LAWS! Why didn't I think of that?...........

[stuartcr]

How do you go about banning something that is advertised 27/7, as what everyone needs to keep up in today’s world?

[goldi]

We ought to have a law that for every new law an old one has to be repealed.

[RC2]

They really don’t have to make another law.....although California did. Auto manufacturers could handle it by putting in a signal block when the engine on a car is running. Wouldn’t be all that hard or expensive.

[WayneS]

Just what we need. More interference by our federal law-makers into areas which they lack the power to regulate.

But, We the Sheeple allow it, because WE keep re-electing them.

We are truly getting the government we deserve.

[Hegemony Cricket]

I have had numerous people scoff at my “absurd” suggestion of having a mandatory “five fruits and vegetables per day” law, but honestly I don’t think we are too far from that (or something equally absurd)...

[Texan Tory]

“The group’s president and chief executive, Janet Froetscher, likened talking on cell phones to drunken driving”

I don’t think it’s a valid comparison, because you can hang up or put the cell phone down while driving, but you cannot instantaneously become ‘undrunk’ if you are intoxicated. I generally avoid talking on the the cell phone while driving, but on those occasions when I do, I always put the phone down when I’m changing lanes etc.; you cannot put aside your drunkenness while changing lanes.

[anoldafvet]

Two recent examples:

On Friday, I was headed home on I-64 East. The left lane was moving at 40 mph because a woman on a cell phone had no idea where she was.

On Saturday, I was headed down one of the two lane rural roads near me. A Ford Explorer was approaching from the opposite. It suddenly wandered to the right and wiped out a mailbox! The vehicle never slowed and when it passed me a woman was talking on a cell phone. She did not even know she had hit the mailbox despite the fact that she broke her headlight and damaged the right fornt fender.

[Flycatcher]

Ban death.

It's the right thing to do.

[Sig Sauer P220]

What about when all the cars have internet access available. People will be on the internet while driving.

[ScottinVA]

So, if this were to come to pass, drivers can be pulled over for APPEARING to be holding a cell phone to their ear. This will be interesting!

[TexasRepublic]

I’m no fan of cell phone drivers. BUT...how is talking on the cell phone more distracting than a blaring stereo that can be heard in the next county? Or talking to someone in the back seat? In all events, you need to keep both your eyes and your mind on the road.

[Hawthorn]

Let’s just ban driving altogether. Then highway fatalities would go to zero.

[BallyBill]

Next they'll want to ban book reading while driving.

[mountn man]

Was driving on the Kennedy expressway in Chicago, and saw an black state police car pass me on the left. I watched it pass by, with the female cop talking on her phone, pressed to her ear. Being that it was rush hour, traffic was slow, and she was on the phone for at least 5 minutes.

I guess laws are only for the subjects.

[zeugma]

I’m always amazed at how much support of the nanny state you find here at FreeRepublic.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Children in a car are proven to be a greater hinderance to safe driving than cell phones. Should children be banned?

[BillT]

People die in cars all the time anyway. Why not just ban automobiles entirely.

Bring back horses and their droppings.

OOPS, another bio-hazard.

[savedbygrace]

``When our friends have been drinking, we take the car keys away. It's time to take the cell phone away,'' Froetscher said in interview.

Name that Logical Fallacy.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Of course, national traffic fatality rates continue to break record LOWS each year, including a big drop in 2008.

[Ben Mugged]

Shut up and drive!