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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Of course, with safety belts and helmets, one can argue that the person is only endangering themselves with their own idiocy, so why should the government have to regulate it?
With Cellphones its a different issue. It can definitely be a distractor, but so can a myriad of other things... most of these things are built standard into a vehicle. Unlike drunk driving, which is a proven danger pertaining to a statistical majority. Like I said before, the biggest distractor is passengers... people that you may or may not otherwise love pointing out things and asking questions and shouting out things, and gasping out "oh god" when they remember something, all the while serving as a massive distraction to the driver. Things like this should just fall into the "people should know better" category, not the "government micromanagement" category... but why think when the government will eventually do it for you?
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For F's sakes, I've lost count of how many things in this post annoy me ... where to start.
There have been dozens of studies that show that driving while on the phone is equivalent to being 1.5 to 2.0 times over the legal limit. Bluetooth is about 1.0 to 1.5. In all studies it shows that cell phones are different than passengers in terms of its impact to your driving because passengers react with what is going on, on the road. Be it pausing when needed or relevant inflictions in their voice that recognizes what is going on around the driver ... obviously on a phone that is impossible. Passengers are an extremely small distraction compared to being on the cell phone.
You ask why the government should regulate it, I can only assume you figure the gov't should care about human life and protecting dumb people from themselves, and if you do, at the very least thing of hte cost damages and the time of public resources, like the EMS folks who have to scrape these people, and their victims off the road.