Using your cell phone while driving

[frankykeno]

I know what you mean. How wrong is it when the public would actually be safer if cell phones were banned, and it was legal to drive drunk!!!

Nope driving drunk doesn't cut it either but I get your point.

[Jenn]

Hence the "wrong" in my post.

[Wh00h0069]

Honestly, I think that there are enough laws and regulations as it is. I do not agree with making another law just because some people can not talk on their phone and drive at the same time. To me, this law is just another way for the city to make money.

[DSGB]

I scream at people everyday to get off thier cell phones. I use mine when i drive though but i pay attention and drive the speed limit.

[snakecharmer3638]

I agree it is sad that laws have to be passed because people can not recognize there own limitations. As stated before some people can multi-task and others CAN NOT. I don't think that making those people go hands-free is going to help them any. They still will not be able to fully concentrate on the road, regardless.


**EDIT**

I don't, however, think that anyone should be allowed to text while they are driving.

[AndrewGeibel]

Every study I have seen shows that people are just as distracted while talking on a headset as they are while talking on the phone. I don't think it will make a bit of difference.

[Inknsteel]

That law has been in place here in NJ for about a year. It is a stoppable offense and carries a $100 fine I believe. I still see people driving and talking on the phone all the time, so I wondered if the police were even enforcing it. That was until I found out that my fiancee's ex has been ticketed twice for it in the past year.

I'll tell you what bugs me though is when I'm driving down the highway and I glance over into the lane beside me and find someone drinking a coffee, talking on their phone and using hand gestures at the same time... Umm, who's driving again?

Normally I would side with those who said there are enough laws, rules and regulations governing our day-to-day lives, but I FULLY support laws that protect me and my family from other people too self-absorbed to worry about the OTHER people their actions may affect...

[Ladydragon]

I agree that using a cell phone while driving should NOT be allowed unless on a handsfree system. There are plenty of people in the population who cannot drive on a normal basis and do not need the extra distraction of gabbing on the phone or worse texting. This kind of rule/law/regulation is beneficial to society as a whole, same as the drunk driving laws. will there be idiots who break them..sadly, yes. Best we can hope for is the lessening of accidents from those said idiots talking on the phone.

[wolfy-hound]

If it's illegil to use a cell phone without a hands free device, then when will they make it illegil to prop your chin on a hand? Or maybe take a drink? Or scratch your nose?

Talking on a cell phone with a hands free device is just as distracting IMHO. After all, if I wear a bluetooth headset and talk on the phone, then I prop my head up with my hand, then it's the same as if I had the phone in my hand!

I think the law is stupid, and the study about it being just as dangerous as driving drunk? BS!!! You can hang up the phone, you can't stop being drunk! When you are drunk, you have slower reflexes, your judgement is impaired, and your senses are dulled. When you talk on a phone, you're distracted. I see more people nearly causing wrecks while searching the front seat for something, than distracted by a cell phone, and I commute an hour each way, five days a week.

People cause wrecks because they don't pay attention to driving. Not because of a cell phone, a soda, or a itchy knee. Cell phone use is just the latest rage in "Look how responsible I'll be for you!" in legislation.

[nwheat]

California has that law already. For a while it was still ok to text while driving, but illegal to talk on the phone. Recently, there was a terrible accident here involving a tour bus. During the coverage of that, they played footage of a different incident where a bus driver was texting for a long time (think they said he was looking at the phone for 6 min) before plowing into the traffic in front of him. I guess he didn't realize there was a security camera filming him the whole time?