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Because it does NOTHING to solve the problem. The problem isn't holding the thing to your ear and driving one-handed (plenty of amputees do it daily, for example), the problem is distracted driving. You can be distracted by eating, smoking, texting, reading, emailing, talking to someone in the car, tuning the radio, adjusting the a/c, discipling your child, looking at the scenery, trying to find an address number on the street, and on and on -- oh, and talking on a cell phone. These laws are a silly band-aid on the real problem of driving distracted.

I agree one thousand percent! Where are the laws mandating hands free radio channel changing? Rear view mirror adjusting? Eyeglass adjusting? OOOHHHH!!!!

I see people reading maps, operating notebooks/laptops. The GPS systems that the other thread over is about!

How do you mandate that people pay attention?

Ya wanna know what amazes me? States that aggressively go after cell phone users when a new law is passed, yet cannot write one following too closely ticket, which a helluva a lot MORE people do on a daily basis!

As I mentioned in the politics room, I just got a $137 PARKING TICKET in Maine the other week because I parked on a rural road across from a convenience store long enough to get a pint of milk to put on breakfast cereal, big time criminal that I am! I have to pay that while enduring HOW MANY PEOPLE IN A DAY WHO CUT OVER IN FRONT OF ME AT THE LAST SECOND FOR THEIR EXIT? As long as the bast*rd doesn't have a cell phone to his ear when he does it, I guess!
 
Alan, one thing that helps mine last a little longer is to actually turn off the ear piece when I am not using it. It's faster than disconnecting the Bluetooth through the handset and will reconnect almost right away when you turn it back on. If your phone battery is more than a year old, it may need replaced. I only charge mine about every other day. I do a lot more texting than talking though.

Thanks Georginna, I'll try doing that. I have been leaving it on all the time, so I'll see if this helps.

And the people that wonder around talking on them always look like they belong in a padded room....then you see their headset....:)
 
Bluetooth usage is a major battery suck. I've had BT headsets for nearly two years now but got them to use in the car -- speaker phones on cells aren't what they used to be -- and that's it.

The legislature here passed a pair of laws in 2007 that required people to not have their phones in their hands while driving. The first banned texting and driving and went into effect Jan. 1. The second was no phone on your ear (unless you're a first responder) which went into effect July 1. Both are secondary offenses.

I have been trying to get into the habit of using my BT headset every time I get into my car. I always do on a long drive (like from my house in the boonies to Seattle or up to Bellevue where the fam and the in-laws live) but now that my office is 3 miles from my house I'm not in the car long enough to even get a call.

Still, the possibility I might get pulled over while on the phone is likely. I was talking to a cop yesterday and he said when he's in his patrol vehicle he doesn't see people holding their phones because funny, drivers become so compliant and law abiding when a cop's around. Heh. He told me, though, that even though it's a secondary offense here if he followed someone for a mile he could probably nail them for a primary offense and write the $101 ticket for the secondary cell phone offense.

Yay for being in one of the five states in America that has these kinds of laws on the books.

Oh, and I try not to wear the headset if I'm not in the car, I feel like an ass if I do.

Georgina had a perfect suggestion and it's what I do, leave the BT on the phone on, but turn the headset off when it's not in use. :)
 
They passed the law here effective July 1. Under 18 cannot use the phone at all, headset included. But they haven't passed a no texting law (go figure).

The first fine is $20, which after fees and whatever, it is actually over $70. The 2nd and each additional is $75, after fees, over $150 I think.

The first two weeks the law was in effect, the CHP wrote over 2500 tickets.
 
People that Text while driving are COMPLETE IDIOTS!!! Sorry if any of y'all do that, but driving and texting..........oh puuuullleeease!!!
 
Add "surfing while driving" to the list too. Chrysler recently announced that starting in the '09 model year, it's going to have an optional router installed that's going to convert 3G cellular broadband to wifi (802.11g or n) so your computer can get online while in the car. It's going to be available in almost all Chryslers.

Hint to Chrysler: before doing this, fix your cars' interiors first.
 
Thanks Georginna, I'll try doing that. I have been leaving it on all the time, so I'll see if this helps.

And the people that wonder around talking on them always look like they belong in a padded room....then you see their headset....:)

You're welcome.

If you like to laugh, you would love the one I am using now. It fits in the ear instead of over the ear. I like the idea of it not hanging on my ear but I am getting ready to trade it because my ear is not big enough to hold it securely.

You had a stylus question in another thread & I am pretty sure you can buy spares at office depot or something like that.
 
People that Text while driving are COMPLETE IDIOTS!!! Sorry if any of y'all do that, but driving and texting..........oh puuuullleeease!!!

Tell me about it. My mouth dropped open when one of my former employees told me that she got a ticket because she was texting while driving. This was someone I had previously thought was reasonably sane. Texting at a light maybe, but while you are actually moving? Makes me think about natural selection and how it really works.
 
People that Text while driving are COMPLETE IDIOTS!!! Sorry if any of y'all do that, but driving and texting..........oh puuuullleeease!!!

That makes me mad too. Since speed dial has made me dumber, I don't know very many phone numbers any more (except for mine, but only because the last four digits of my cell phone end in the digits that spell "JENN"---and because I'm always calling my cell phone when I lose it but I digress) sometimes it takes me a while to find the number I'l looking for and even that distracts me sometimes from the task at hand...driving!
 
They passed the law here effective July 1. Under 18 cannot use the phone at all, headset included. But they haven't passed a no texting law (go figure).

Why, oh why, do we have to legislate common sense?? For goodness sakes' people!!! Here in PA they repealed the helmet law for motorcycles...but I still have to wear a seat belt...where's the logic??:mad:
 
They don't want to be told to wear a helmet, but let it be their choice.

Sorry Alan, but in a case like that it should NOT be their choice. Do you know how many motorcyclists die in accidents in FL that otherwise would have been survivable if they wore - say it with me now - a helmet?
 
Sorry Alan, but in a case like that it should NOT be their choice. Do you know how many motorcyclists die in accidents in FL that otherwise would have been survivable if they wore - say it with me now - a helmet?

As a motorcycle enthusiast, common sense tells me that a helmet is the way to go. Just like Cheryl said that common sense prevails when it comes to seatbelts as well.

Some states have talked about a restricted helmet law. If you carry 'x' amount of insurance coverage, you can ride without a helmet. Not sure what states had discussed this, California may even be one of them.
 
texting instead of just plain talking. whats up with that?

why texting with cell phones? don't these phones carry speech? Isn't that what they were designed for? people are so lazy they don't want to go through the effort of moving their lips? Ive had my current cell since 06 and I get annoyed when my son texts me. You have to scroll around just to read it. And he wont answer his phone unless you text him. what a colossal Pain in the ***.
 
In FL they don't have a helmet law. I never understood why bikers put up a fuss about putting on a helmet. :confused:

Particularly with all those big bugs you have out there. My helmets have saved my eyesight several times as big assed bugs went kamakazi into my face shield and helmet.

I once rode 75 mph through a swarm of locusts. It was disgusting. Luckily my cow skin and lid took all of the guts.

After the amount of road rash I've had, I'm a heavy advocate for jackets and pants too. Took me 5 seconds to lose 15 inches of skin on my arm, and almost 4 months to get it all back.
 
People that Text while driving are COMPLETE IDIOTS!!! Sorry if any of y'all do that, but driving and texting..........oh puuuullleeease!!!

Sorry. :o I'm one of those idiots. I text more than I talk. I won't defend my bad habits just admit my indiscretions. Only accident I have ever caused was when I was 17 and a new, impatient driver trying to get around a bus. Been rear ended twice. Before I even had a cell phone. :D

I really do agree, though, that it's a bad idea and I know I should be good and not text especially since it is illegal here now to text and drive. But, but ...

Yeah, I can't defend it. LOL.

I promise you, though, that I'm much more distracted by my own thoughts and daydreams and mental to do lists than by my phone in my car.

Admitted text freak. About 400 minutes a month total on the phone but about 3,000 to 4,000 texts/mms on my phone. I have one of them BlackBerry phones, too, so I also get a ton of e-mail.
 
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