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Automotive News & Views Should cell phone drivers be singled out?
3688 messages, Last post on Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM
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Replying to: steve_ (Aug 31, 2009 9:54 pm) Good idea...totally unenforceable, but good idea! Perhaps they should ban visual/manual intensive tasks over a certain duration. That's why you can't enter a destination into most factory navigation systems - the "15-second rule" says if a task takes more than 15 seconds of eyes off road time total (not one glance, but a series of glances up to 15 seconds) it should be locked out while driving. There are a few other studies that are more recent and some surrogate measures that all basically say the same thing.
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Replying to: fintail (Sep 01, 2009 9:26 am) Governor Cuomo did something interesting in NY to drive home the seriousness of the seat belt law when it first went into effect...The first person stopped and ticketed was one of his daughters. Naturally, it made all the news shows that night and got the buzz going about the new law. Perhaps if every state just summarily executed the first person caught texting while driving the law might get some attention. |
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Replying to: fintail (Sep 01, 2009 9:26 am) Governor Cuomo did something interesting in NY to drive home the seriousness of the seat belt law when it first went into effect...The first person stopped and ticketed was one of his daughters. Naturally, it made all the news shows that night and got the buzz going about the new law. Perhaps if every state just summarily executed the first person caught texting while driving the law might get some attention.
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Replying to: vinnyny (Sep 01, 2009 6:33 pm) +1  .
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Replying to: vinnyny (Sep 01, 2009 6:33 pm)
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Replying to: lilengineerboy (Aug 29, 2009 9:07 pm) The thing about tuning a radio is that the driver can select the instant when he/she will do the task - if they are intelligent and alert drivers. If you are having a conversation on a cell while driving, your main concentration is listening, absorbing content and constructing your next reply and then delivering a reply. This is vastly different from changing a radio station which only requires momentary simple thought process and can be done safely when road is straight, no intersections nearby, no opposing traffic. The distraction of a cell phone call is a continuous thought process rather than a brief instant to change a radio station. I was one who years ago drove and used the cell phone. As I have mentioned in previous posts, when I did this, and upon call termination, I thought and recounted and usually could not remember any traffic details during the call. I would often think, "Oh, I have gone this far?". Today, if I am on a rural 55 posted highway, with semi traffic to boot, that has curves, dips, crests, crossroads, sideroads, I am very careful to change a radio station. Only do it on a straight, with no oncoming traffic, no semi on my rear.
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Replying to: lilengineerboy (Sep 01, 2009 6:27 pm) I've heard a couple more tech types on the radio in the last month say it's feasible to kill cell phone transmissions in moving vehicles. Seems a bit punitive for passengers and the commuter crowd.
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Replying to: steve_ (Sep 02, 2009 12:12 pm)  . I'm not sure I would use the term punitive. After all, we got along fine without phones in the car for, oh, maybe 80 or 90 years  .
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Replying to: srs_49 (Sep 02, 2009 1:41 pm) Is this per the FCC or ? You can always make stuff illegal one way or another.
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Replying to: steve_ (Sep 02, 2009 4:00 pm) Here in Maryland, the governor has been trying to get permission to try out cell phone jamming gear in some prisons. This came about because some "hits" were ordered by people incarcerated using smuggled in cell phones. I do not know if the feds approved his request or not.
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