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odreian615
join:2006-01-18
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Just what we need - more driver distractions.jpg/thumb.jpg "50989 bytes")
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| | bgraham
join:2001-03-15
Smithtown, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Exactly my sentiment. Here on Long Island some idiots hardly have time to "actually drive" while they are driving.
Coffee, cell phone calls, text messaging, navigation systems and now the internet.
Time has come to get laws banning all of the above from cars.
I come from England originally and they have the right idea.
»news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2913193.stm | |
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Meh37
@verizon.net
| Re: Just what we need - more driver distractions Personally, I favor the death penalty--regardless of the distraction. | |
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Boogeyman
Drive it like you stole it
Premium
join:2002-12-17
Huntsville, AL
 ·Comcast
| Its already illegal to use those things while you are driving. Banning them from cars suddenly makes criminals out of almost everyone. I keep my cell on me when I go out, and I dont use it while driving, but I would still be breaking the law just by having it on me.
Its illegal to read a book while driving too, should we ban all books from motor vehicles?
Remember, making something more illegal than it already is isnt going to stop the people who were breaking the original law to begin with. (IE, all the people talking on phones and reading, putting on make up, shaving, eating, watching tv, etc, while driving).
And banning said devices from vehicles would make being a passenger even more boring for long trips, and less useful. I always make my passenger call for directions, answer my phone if it may be important, find songs on the mp3 player so I can concentrate on driving, etc. | |
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RadioDoc
Sortofadog
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
Chicago, IL | Sadly, I saw that exact thing last night on 55th St on my way home. Some twitwit watching his iPod while "driving", straddling the white line and weaving back and forth in both westbound lanes.
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Toolmaster of La Grange. | |
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Nightshade
sic semper tyrannis
Premium
join:2002-05-26
Salem, OR | Re: Makes me want to watch TV Boss Hogg is my hero!!  | |
| Qixotl
join:2002-02-08
New Milford, CT
| Would love to have in-car Wi-Fi There are several Internet radio stations that I would much prefer to listen to when driving instead of the ad-filled tripe on the airwaves. MLB.com Audio would be better than the XM alternative (choice of team feeds instead of just the home team one). Still, I doubt if the service fees and equipment costs would make in-car Wi-Fi financially sensible for those limited applications. | |
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@xspedius.net | Sadly I have seen someone swerving and driving eradict speeds in OH one afternoon. I passed him, and I saw he had a girly magazine and i don't even want to know what he was doing under that. Just really sad what porn will do, thats addiction. | |
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WhatBS
@sbcglobal.net
| I am SO ASHAMED OF BEING AN AMERICAN What kind of freaks are writing comments like "we should ban xxx"? Are people that dumb? Do you really want the govt to have more power?? Do we need more laws?? I say we DO NOT need ANYTHING BANNED. I think *IF* and ONLY IF someone causing injury to someone because of a distraction (including ANYTHING like wifi, phone or looking at a hot woman on the side of the road) should they get ANY KIND OF FINE OR PUNISHMENT! If you want stupid rules to follow, join the army and get out of our face.
How stupid are we to ban CELL PHONES while driving in some areas while talking on a CB RADIO, HAM RADIO, FRS RADIOS are ALL LEGAL!!! Is there a difference?? NO! Is there a difference whether the distraction is on a cell phone (where they can choose to hang up) or a screaming kid in the back seat??? NO!
Stupid Americans ... I am SO ASHAMED OF BEING AN AMERICAN | |
| daffy1
join:2008-03-30
Charleston, SC
| Some common sense please! Why does the government try to legislate common sense?
If it isn't learned and practiced while in grade school then I think it's too late by adolescence. Just look at what TV has done to our way of life already. Do we really need more? They took Television, which I consider to be one of the greatest educational tools ever created, and turned it into what my dad used to call the "boob tube"!
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Your In-Car Wi-Fi Options Should Improve Soon
Just what we need - more driver distractions
Makes me want to watch TV
