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Originally Posted by Azure
Yay.
More government involvement in your personal lives.
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Stupidest thing I've read all day.
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Originally Posted by Dion
If it prevents more deaths and accidents, i'm all for it.
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In a perfect world it'd be the texter that dies. In the real world, Murphy's Law usually applies.
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Originally Posted by Azure
How do they enforce it?
I mean, you can force someone to take a breathalyzer test when he is swerving back and forth on the highway, but how do you enforce this?
Give the police a computer program that shows all activity on your phone the past 10 min?
The only way to enforce something like this would be to get really involved in people's personal lives. Which is why I don't like it.
Sure, its stupid, and sure I want to run over the stupid bitch in the white car that almost blindsided me the other week in Lethbridge because she was texting, but I really don't know how you can enforce this without really keying in on what people are doing.
Cop pulls you over, all you need to do is close your phone. How is he going to prove that you were texting?
Knowing that, how many mistakes would be made by cops saying someone was texting, and the guy saying he wasn't?
Court cases galore.
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I think the idea is that if you're in an accident, they can check your phone records and see if you were texting at the time of the accident.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Your problem is you want to blindly support everything the government comes up with.
I'm telling you right now, enforcing something like this would be next to impossible, without going back through even more PERSONAL records.
The cop can see whether you're wearing a seatbelt or not without being in your car. How can he see if you're texting? Assuming he's not driving right beside you?
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Just stop. You know as well as everyone else that looking at your goddamn phone while driving is friggin dangerous. Not only to you but to everyone else. It's not nearly the same as seatbelts. I haven't read the rest of the thread beyond this because your posts are pissing me off (so I'm not sure if the following argument has been made), but a seatbelt is something that saves YOU. It doesn't stop you from hitting someone else. Therefore: wearing it or not wearing it makes no difference to MY safety. But outlawing YOU diddling with your phone while heading toward ME at whatever speed does.