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Should it be illegal to use your cell while driving
Yes - it should ALWAYS be illegal. 56%  56%  [ 15 ]
No - It's ok to talk and drive like an idiot. 15%  15%  [ 4 ]
Cell phones and cars are ok if you use a "hands-free" device. 30%  30%  [ 8 ]
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:52 am
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On the way back from lunch today, I passed 2 people going 20 mph UNDER the speed limit, while driving in the left lane. It's bad enough that we have a population of elderly drivers... but this is ridiculous.

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Out here in California, since the first of July, hands free devices for cell phones while driving is the law. Other than being a huge boondoggle for Best Buy/Good Guys/Radio Shack, etc., i think it's too early to know if it has had any positive effect. Funny part is, although it does require hands-free talking while driving, it does not require hands-free dialing, and it does not prohibit text-messaging while driving. Go figure. Not a day goes by that I don't see two or three people on their cells behind the wheel, some using the speakerphone, holding it down by the steering wheel and yelling at it. I'm not sure if this counts as hands free or not. One other aspect of the new law is that ALL cellphone use is prohibited for drivers under 18 years old, and since I have a 17 year old on the road, I have no problem with that at all.


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Normally I'm driving the speed limit (or slightly above it) and some moron on a cellphone is speeding on my tail not paying attention to the road.

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Out here in California, since the first of July, hands free devices for cell phones while driving is the law. Other than being a huge boondoggle for Best Buy/Good Guys/Radio Shack, etc., i think it's too early to know if it has had any positive effect. Funny part is, although it does require hands-free talking while driving, it does not require hands-free dialing, and it does not prohibit text-messaging while driving. Go figure. Not a day goes by that I don't see two or three people on their cells behind the wheel, some using the speakerphone, holding it down by the steering wheel and yelling at it. I'm not sure if this counts as hands free or not. One other aspect of the new law is that ALL cellphone use is prohibited for drivers under 18 years old, and since I have a 17 year old on the road, I have no problem with that at all.


The Hands Free Law is only good if it is being strictly enforced. I still see people using their cell phones while driving with no hands free device.
In Jan. 2009 it will also become illegal to text message in a car in the State of Calif.

In MY personal opinion the use of cell phones and like devices should be outlawed completely while operating a motor vehicle. A lot of people can't even walk and chew gum at the same time let alone drive and talk.

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I can always tell who's using the phone on roads and on the freeways. They drive exactly like drunk drivers. In fact, I'd rather have a drunk driver, driving next to me, than a cell phone user. Drunk drivers are safer.

In fact......when I'm riding in the car with my wife....and I see a car going extra slow, weaving, and other stupid things, I'll tell my wife, "there goes a drunk driver". That's what I call cell phone drivers. "drunk drivers", because they drive identical to a drunk driver.

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Oh yeah........About a year ago, I got rear ended by a cellphone user. I'm sure it was very hard for her to see me. I was driving a BIG FULLSIZE Nissan Titan PU truck, stopped at a red light, waiting for the light to change. The lady was so busy with her phone call, she never saw THAT BIG TRUCK!

Only good part......when she rear ended me, she went UNDER the back of my truck......and hit the frame, and tore up the entire front end of her car. I went outside to check for damage to my truck. Not a scratch.

About six months later, I was again stopped for a red light. Another cell phone user again rear ended me, while using a cell phone. But......once again, not one scratch on my Nissan Titan. Geez......I'm sounding like a commercial for Nissan Trucks.

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Sitting on my front porch, I once watched a tourist on a rental scooter attempt to make a left turn while talking on her phone (no "hands-free"). She took the turn wide and ended up running off the road and into my fence. Never let the phone go... she just said: "I've gotta call you back, I just hit a house."

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In MY personal opinion the use of cell phones and like devices should be outlawed completely while operating a motor vehicle. A lot of people can't even walk and chew gum at the same time let alone drive and talk.


+1. Driving and phoning was outlawed three or four years ago in the UK - but you still see lots of people doing it. They are usually the ones cruising through a red light, or drifting across three lanes.

BIG penalties handed out for people who cause accidents while talking on the phone - the police immediately check the phone companies' records to see if the line was in use. But nothing stops them: they keep right on doing it. Can't miss that call!

(I'd also like to see people imprisoned for having that humorous screaming baby ringtone. But that's another thread...)

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Ceri wrote:
CAFeathers wrote:
In MY personal opinion the use of cell phones and like devices should be outlawed completely while operating a motor vehicle. A lot of people can't even walk and chew gum at the same time let alone drive and talk.


+1. Driving and phoning was outlawed three or four years ago in the UK - but you still see lots of people doing it. They are usually the ones cruising through a red light, or drifting across three lanes.

BIG penalties handed out for people who cause accidents while talking on the phone - the police immediately check the phone companies' records to see if the line was in use. But nothing stops them: they keep right on doing it. Can't miss that call!

(I'd also like to see people imprisoned for having that humorous screaming baby ringtone. But that's another thread...)

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Ceri-a question for you.

For the last several years, I've been reading a lot of stories, comeout out of Brit news sources, and more and more studies are linking brain cancer to cell phone use. Yet, here in the colonies.......it's rarely mentioned (big time money involved with cell phones, you know....). As time goes on, these studies seem more and more sure, that you'll grow a tumor on your brain, if you use a cell phone all the time. What are you hearing over there?

I personally don't own a cell phone. In fact, I'm not a phone person at all. My wife answers the phone in my house.....if not for that, it wouldn't get answered.

Also...people don't realize, that with a cell phone, the goverment can track your every movement..........even if it's turned off.

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Ceri-a question for you.

For the last several years, I've been reading a lot of stories, comeout out of Brit news sources, and more and more studies are linking brain cancer to cell phone use. Yet, here in the colonies.......it's rarely mentioned (big time money involved with cell phones, you know....). As time goes on, these studies seem more and more sure, that you'll grow a tumor on your brain, if you use a cell phone all the time. What are you hearing over there?

I personally don't own a cell phone. In fact, I'm not a phone person at all. My wife answers the phone in my house.....if not for that, it wouldn't get answered.

Also...people don't realize, that with a cell phone, the goverment can track your every movement..........even if it's turned off.


Hi, man: I have a notion that Britons are the most intensive users of cell phones in the world. It seems ages since the TV news reported that we now had two for every man, woman and child in the country - one for each ear! So if phone use causes brain tumors - you'll hear about it from us first!

I can hardly even remember to switch my phone on in the morning, so it ain't going to be me (I hope). But I see kids who have that thing clamped to their heads 24/7, seemingly.

Strange thing: though we have the highest phone ownership (and the highest broadband uptake too - how can that be?) Finland is the "most connected" country. There you don't put money in a vending machine: you dial a number on your phone.

We're going that way, too. There's hardly any parking ticket machines that take money anymore: you dial a number on the machine and enter a code and pay on your credit card instead. A flipping pain in the *** when it is dark and raining and you left your wallet in the car...

Like you, I am also nervous about the government surveillance aspect of the thing - and that's a whole other thread, too...

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Ceri wrote:
Syeklops wrote:
Ceri-a question for you.

For the last several years, I've been reading a lot of stories, comeout out of Brit news sources, and more and more studies are linking brain cancer to cell phone use. Yet, here in the colonies.......it's rarely mentioned (big time money involved with cell phones, you know....). As time goes on, these studies seem more and more sure, that you'll grow a tumor on your brain, if you use a cell phone all the time. What are you hearing over there?

I personally don't own a cell phone. In fact, I'm not a phone person at all. My wife answers the phone in my house.....if not for that, it wouldn't get answered.

Also...people don't realize, that with a cell phone, the goverment can track your every movement..........even if it's turned off.


Hi, man: I have a notion that Britons are the most intensive users of cell phones in the world. It seems ages since the TV news reported that we now had two for every man, woman and child in the country - one for each ear! So if phone use causes brain tumors - you'll hear about it from us first!

I can hardly even remember to switch my phone on in the morning, so it ain't going to be me (I hope). But I see kids who have that thing clamped to their heads 24/7, seemingly.

Strange thing: though we have the highest phone ownership (and the highest broadband uptake too - how can that be?) Finland is the "most connected" country. There you don't put money in a vending machine: you dial a number on your phone.

We're going that way, too. There's hardly any parking ticket machines that take money anymore: you dial a number on the machine and enter a code and pay on your credit card instead. A flipping pain in the *** when it is dark and raining and you left your wallet in the car...

Like you, I am also nervous about the government surveillance aspect of the thing - and that's a whole other thread, too...

Cheers - C


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Two for every ear........Stereo cell phones........maybe you should go into business to make velcro straps to go across the forehead, and attach one cell phone to each ear! I'd be a millionaire and could buy myself a custom shop guitar (unless Brad somes up with a contest where I can win one..hint, hint.........)

Cell phones for vending machines?????????? San Francisco is now using credit cards for parking meters. I had to go to SF to see a guitar tech, a few months ago. I parked about two blocks from his shop. The parking was about a dollar, every 6 minutes. I put about 30 pounds of quarters 25 cents for you Brits), into the parking meter, and I only had about 20 minutes to do my busines. I remember talking to my tech, and always looking at my watch!

As far as the goverment tracking you're whereabouts with a cell phone.....either people don't know...or don't care. One day.....and it's coming soon.......cell phones will no longer be used. Instead they'll just implant a phone chip into people's forehead! Remember..........I said it first! (when it happens).

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I refuse to buy a cell phone! I am man!!!!!! Hear me roar!!!!!!!!

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I don't have one. Don't see the need even though the industry has done a fantastic job convincing everyone that they need to have a phone with them all the time so they can find out if they need to buy milk. Not worth $100 a month in my book.

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I refuse to buy a cell phone! I am man!!!!!! Hear me roar!!!!!!!!


+1. It's ridiculous that everyone thinks they need to have one. I'm quite fine without one. Actually, I think it keeps me more sane than if I would have one. I know people who basically live through their cell phone. I hid it once and they complained incessantly for hours. Actually, if you click the blog link in my profile, I believe the first one that comes up should be about cells phones (I won't post it here because it's quite a bit vulgar).


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