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Originally Posted by nfotiu
So, as someone who is on-call every second week, I'd have to never leave my home those weeks?
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People were on call before phones were portable. I'm sure you can figure out a system.
This is what I don't get about the argument. Besides the technology, a lot of these things haven't changed, so I don't know why people suddenly think they are far more busy or important than they were 30 years ago. Yes it does make it more convenient and yes you can get things done slightly quicker, but there are workarounds for every single situation people have said or complained about. As I said, we all did things on the road 30 years ago before we were carrying phones.
Just to clarify my position, I'm playing a bit of devils advocate for the arguments against instituting some sort of zero tolerance technological mandate like a kill switch or whatever. It does feel a bit heavy handed. But I'm arguing for it because a lot of the arguments against it are hollow and amount to nothing more than, 'jeez I don't want to lose my freedom' which is something people say when they don't want to change but don't have a good argument.
I don't think I'm totally against a good hands free set up and talking, I think the risks while using devices like that properly are much less, and let's face it, people talk to people in their car all the time anyway, so you're never going to get rid of talking, nor do I feel you should.
But anything over that, anything that involves holding a phone, checking a phone, and god forbid typing on a device needs to be banned and punished harder than it is now, and anyone who is fooling themselves into think A it doesn't make them a more dangerous driver or B they are too busy or important to give it up is just fooling themselves.