Nitrohaulic
Nitro Member
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!