Posted on 02/07/2011 8:10:43 AM PST by AT7Saluki
On Monday, a bill banning talking on the phone while driving will be introduced in the North Carolina Senate. The bill would ban using hands free devices while driving as well.
Highway Patrol Trooper Beckley Vaughn said it boils down to being distracted while driving. Vaughn said at only 55 mph, a driver goes about 88 feet per second. He said the average reaction time is only .75 of a second.
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What about posting messages on FR threads, eating a hot dog, searching for a good afternoon radio talk show and cleaning out earwax all at the same time while driving on a crowded Interstate? It can be done, y’know...
Actually, these people think their poop smells particularly fine!
CA....
I hate the idea of using tains. They're mainly a pain with no gain.
mythbusters skews their tests to favor the PC solution.
essentially, the nanny solution prevails.
Yeah, they can do all that AFTER the fact. But where’s the probable cause for the stop?
Yes, no doubt they’re planning to restrict listening to the radio while driving and chewing gum while driving, as well.
One waits in astonished anticipation for The Government to restrict scratching one’s b*lls while driving.
The Nanny State never sleeps.
cops first ??? but surely theyre trained to click the mike while flyin thru city streets w/o ‘distractions’...
Hey, it’s not that we can’t take care of ourselves, but until I get the right to shoot assholes who almost kill me weekly while I’m riding my bike on roads I share with them then I say we need to tell people they don’t have a right to drive and talk on the phone.
You don’t have a right to drive. It is a privilege. And as such it is controlled by a government agency already.
Too many dumb idiots think they have a right to drive and talk on the phone. They don’t. Studies have been done that show it is equal to driving drunk. I’ve had too many close calls with you guys on your phones driving like you were lost or drunk and almost killing me when I am in the lane next to you all because you can’t see around your phone.
If you think you have the right to drive and talk on the phone then you pass to me the right to pull out my 1911 and pop your head like a zit for attempted murder with your car.
sorry. my bad.
As long as it applies to law enforcement, ambulances, and fire...
Oh, they only want this for the little people.
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