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01-30-2010, 07:19 PM | #19 |
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You guys want nicotine fiends on the road without their fix?
crazy... lol and for all you holier than thou bluetooth users: http://news.siuc.edu/news/March06/030306tw5142.jsp If you are using a hands-free device with a cell phone, you are four and half times more likely to be in a serious accident than if you are not talking on the phone at all. Last edited by supmet; 01-30-2010 at 08:10 PM. |
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As already mentioned, that's likely just as true of drivers talking to someone in the car. Which is a reason that new drivers are limited as to the passengers they can carry in most places. Get a car full of teenagers yakking, and they'll probably drive into something.
In case nobody read the link I posted above, it's to a study showing that accidents haven't gone down anywhere laws against cell phone use have been put in place. |
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You are right but what is your conclusion? Using the phone should be allowed because other things are allowed too? Or other things should be disallowed too?
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I ocassionally text while driving... and what makes me more stupid is... I'm using a touch-screen phone...
I know, gotta stop that habit... |
02-04-2010, 07:59 PM | #28 |
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More laws that we don't need. great... Why don't we just ban being alive at all, because that is where this bs is heading too.
If people do dumb things, let them pay the consequences of it. Let's not make a law for every dumb thing people do, its just rediculous. Take personal responsibility for yourselves and smack your family around to do it as well. If everyone did that, there wouldn't be a problem. You cannot legislate common sense, so stop trying.
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