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**primaveraloler** · 12-02-2007, 08:54 PM

Maybe if the list of banned items didn't include eating, drinking, smoking, reading, interacting with pets or cargo, I'd go for it. And cells phones with head sets should be okay.

I don't want a cop giving me a $600 ticket for eating M&M's on my way to school. I don't want a cop to give me a ticket for drinking water in my car. I don't want a ticket for reading directions to the place I need to be going (mapquest printouts for example). And interacting with pets and cargo my ass. Too much control if you ask me.

Cell phones with head sets have been dismissed as just as distracting as a cell phone without one: [New study says headsets don't make cellphone-driving safer - Engadget. It isn't what exactly one is doing, it is the fact that one is multi-tasking at all while driving a huge hunk of metal at a high rate of speed. Some people are ready to trip over themselves voting for legislation to fight terrorists, and meanwhile car accidents are a leading cause of death and injury in this country, but some scoff at this legislation as too restrictive. Whether or not stuff like this gets passed, local law enforcement just doesn't have the resources to catch every distracted driver - which is most drivers.

12-02-2007, 08:54 PM	#30
primaveraloler Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 568 Senior Member	Maybe if the list of banned items didn't include eating, drinking, smoking, reading, interacting with pets or cargo, I'd go for it. And cells phones with head sets should be okay. I don't want a cop giving me a $600 ticket for eating M&M's on my way to school. I don't want a cop to give me a ticket for drinking water in my car. I don't want a ticket for reading directions to the place I need to be going (mapquest printouts for example). And interacting with pets and cargo my ass. Too much control if you ask me. Cell phones with head sets have been dismissed as just as distracting as a cell phone without one: [New study says headsets don't make cellphone-driving safer - Engadget. It isn't what exactly one is doing, it is the fact that one is multi-tasking at all while driving a huge hunk of metal at a high rate of speed. Some people are ready to trip over themselves voting for legislation to fight terrorists, and meanwhile car accidents are a leading cause of death and injury in this country, but some scoff at this legislation as too restrictive. Whether or not stuff like this gets passed, local law enforcement just doesn't have the resources to catch every distracted driver - which is most drivers.
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