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.
"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.
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