US. proposes cell phone ban for truck drivers

CNBC News ^ | Decembefr 17, 2010 | Reuters

[Bryanw92]

>>Airline Pilots - Just look at all that crap in the cockpit! How do they do it?

Do airliners fly in formation, only a few feet apart? Don’t airline pilots have a co-pilot?

[JABit]

One word: unenforceable

[SteamShovel]

US. proposes cell phone ban for truck drivers

How about.....

....A cell phone ban for Politicians?

[Felis_irritable]

http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=062206-1

http://www.distraction.gov/research/PDF-Files/Comparison-of-CellPhone-Driver-Drunk-Driver.pdf

http://bicycleuniverse.info/cars/cellphones.htm

[mylife]

There is still good reason to use open nets, and I am sure they do.

[orinoco]

Nearly 5,000 people were killed and another 500,000 were hurt in crashes of all vehicles involving a distracted driver in 2009, government safety figures show.

How many of these accidents were attributed to truck drivers using cell phones? Truck drivers are professional drivers and mostl likely have a lower accident rate. What is the rate?

The cellphone Any proposal is subject to a 60-day comment period before being finalized.

In other words, you have sixty days to provide the commision with a response which we will consider and then enforce this regulation because we on the commission have decided to do this because we think we can (/sarc).

Here is a great article that offers a solution to regulatory abuse.

Government Regulatory Reform

[ElkGroveDan]

Yeah imagine what would become of our country if truckers were allowed to spend their days holding a device up to their mouth and talking.

[Vendome]

The co-pilot is Jesus

[misterrob]

Basic logic indicates that if you take your eyes off the road to engage in another task be that dialing a phone, screwing with the radio, applying make up or picking up your child’s toy that fell on the floor then you are not paying full attention to the task of driving.

[sand lake bar]

“....A cell phone ban for Politicians?”

Just ban their chauffeurs and bodyguards. Make ‘em live like the rest of us. I suspect we'd all get a lot of our freedom back at that point.

[pepperdog]

Why do they continue to try to kill a gnat with a cannon? Obviously holding a cell phone while driving is dangerous, just as obvious is talking on a cell phone via a bluetooth is no more dangerous than talking to another person riding in the vehicle or singing along with the radio. One has to wonder at the continuing move to limit our communications with one another. Perhaps the current state of quick communications is seen as a danger to an out of control government?

[Graybeard58]

I hate talking on the cellphone when I am driving. I rarely do it.

I never do it, if my phone rings while I'm driving, I ignore it and wait until I'm stopped and call them back.

I realize that for me, talking on a phone is very distracting while driving but I do what I do of my own free will and speak only for myself. We don't need any more damaging nanny laws.

[Doomonyou]

....A cell phone ban for Politicians?

Ban Teleprompters.

[RJS1950]

When a trucker is making turns, etc they are not usually talking on their CBs either unless they are morons. Cells are set up these days to be hands-free without tucking it between your ear and shoulder.

[1010RD]

These headlines are good news for us. It will keep the mushy middle aka Independents on our side in 2012.

These kinds of idiocies also help us to begin reigning in the Imperial Executive and all the Alphabet Agencies.

Our new Congress needs to pass economic impact statements that limit the ability of these agencies to harm our Republic.

You could say that all rules that affect more than 1 million people or $10 million in commerce need to come for a vote in Congress before being implemented. This kind of reasonable stance will resonate with voters and stifle the regulating bureaucrats.

Add in pay reductions and personnel freezes, eliminate and consolidate departments - Imagine rolling the ATF into the FBI (fire arms), the Dept. of Agriculture (tobacco) and FDA (alcohol).

[1010RD]

Chicago outlawed using a cell phone without an ear piece. On the day the law went into effect I was driving behind a marked squad waiting to make a left turn into traffic.

The female officer (she had painted nails) hung her left hand out the window, a cigarette sticking up between her fingers and her right hand holding the cell phone to her ear.

How she completed that left I can only guess (knee?). Police, of course, were exempt from the new law.

Some animals are more equal than others.

[Just A Nobody]

ROTFLMAO

http://news.discovery.com/earth/is-global-warming-real.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-19/world/eco.globalwarmingsurvey_1_global-warming-climate-science-human-activity?_s=PM:WORLD

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20101208_Scientists_tell_Christie__Global_warming_is_real.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10480686

http://www.suite101.com/content/smoking-and-alcohol-as-psoriasis-triggers-a86163

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/

[Felis_irritable]

Whatever. Go ahead and live in your oblivious little world where the average moron who can’t steer out of a skid, can’t execute a merge, won’t use their turn signals, etc., etc., should get one more distraction.

Some people could work tensor calculus while driving and do both well. Others can barely breath and drive at the same time. I want to be protected from those idiots.

The rest of the world will just have to wait a minute to make their precious phone calls. Oh the horror.

[Just A Nobody]

Go ahead and live in your oblivious little world where the average moron who can’t steer out of a skid, can’t execute a merge, won’t use their turn signals, etc., etc., should get one more distraction.

Don't kid yourself. I am not oblivious and actually agree with most of what you said above, I simply disagree with your solution to the problem.

Some people could work tensor calculus while driving and do both well. Others can barely breath and drive at the same time.

Just exactly right on both counts.

I want to be protected from those idiots.

Then go live in a bubble in some underground bunker.

How about this for a concept ... don't give the average moron who can’t steer out of a skid, can’t execute a merge, won’t use their turn signals, etc., etc. a driver's license. Personal responsibility would go a long way to solve some of our problems. If YOU cannot carry on a conversation with a passenger or by using a cell phone while you are driving and remain focused on the task at hand, then don't do it! If I can manage it then why should I be told I cannot do it?

Stop punishing the law-abiding, functioning, productive adults in our society and begin weeding out and cracking down on those who are none of the above. We are constantly told driving is a privilege. Well, if one can't drive why are they rewarded with the privilege?

Again: I want to be protected from those idiots.

“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin