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Originally Posted by james t kirk
People should not be talking on cell phones and driving period.
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Blanket statements are rarely accurate. As I mentioned above, it's not the cell phones, it's the crappy drivers. Scapegoating various "distractions" is not going to change the fact that the majority of people out there have no clue how to drive well. Instead of sitting around bitching about phones and food and whatever else is supposedly a distraction, why don't we pressure our legislators to make driving education harder in the first place?
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It would be very easy to build in a jamming device into every car that would jam when the car was in gear and shut down when the car was in park.
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1) it would be just as easy to disconnect it.
2) The jamming device could cause loss of signal for phones NEAR the car. So if you're sitting at the sidewalk waiting to pick someone up, you're also jamming all the phones of the people near you.
3) And #2 will lead to 911-failure lawsuits.
As for the one ticket, loss of license idea.. . .that's pretty out there, really. For serious moving violations (DWI, 50 over the limit, etc) sure, I can see it. But are you really suggesting that if someone gets a ticket for 4 over (happened to me a few years back) they should lose their license? If someone gets a seatbelt ticket, they should lose their license? Isn't that getting rather extreme?