[coton_lover]

I think you all have it wrong. If anyone in Ca. wants to talk to someone in their car they have to buy hands-fee devices, do they not?

I've heard about this from a radio talk show. It is just a ploy from companies wanting to sell their hands-free devices and giving kick-backs to the assemblymen for making the Ca. people buy them. (Sounds a bit like the car insurance industry.)

[thatsnotnice]

If anyone in Ca. wants to talk to someone in their car they have to buy hands-fee devices, do they not?

Not that I know of. They’re trying to make it a law (maybe already done?).

I remember reading an article on a study (it was in a paper, don’t remember which one) in which they claimed that hands-free made no difference. They claimed that people talking on a cell phone (hands-free or otherwise) were distracted to the point that they were more likely to get in an accident than someone that was legally intoxicated.

I searched for an on-line version but couldn’t find it. Someone else might have read it… it came out about 4-5 months ago.

[kellynla]

In CA, we do not have to use a hands free device to make a call in a vehicle. That is the whole point of the legislation is to force people to use hands free devices when making cell calls from their vehicle.