Wednesday, October 13, 2010

would you go along with banning all cell phone devices including hands-free while driving?

Bloomberg --

US transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is calling for an all-out ban on all communication devices including hands-free while driving.

"I don’t want people talking on phones, having them up to their ear or texting while they’re driving,” LaHood said in an interview this week. “We need a lot better research on other distractions,” including Bluetooth-enabled hands-free calls and the in-car systems, he said.


LaHood is also calling on limiting the growth of vehicle features such as Sync.

I will agree with LaHood on a few things...texting
while driving is a big one, and optional devices that require thumbing through a menu to activate, and this includes some car radios.

Other than that... stay out of my car!

now I know that there are some people they can't walk and chew gum at the same time and a very easily distracted, but I am one of those people that have been using communication devices for really long time back in the days when you had a cord connected to a microphone, and trying to talk and use a stick shift.

Now that took a little bit of coordination.

I guess my point is... as soon as they started getting one law passed such as the hands-free law, I kind of figured that it would not be long before that somebody would try to ban communications altogether.

1 comment:

Bobkatt said...

"I don’t want people talking on phones, having them up to their ear or texting while they’re driving,” said the man who probably has a driver or two.