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It is a no brainer but like so many things that seem simple people make them difficult. Why is this NTSB person holding a press conference when she should be handing this off to actual law makers so something can be done? Did you notice actually making a law did not enter the speech. Why not get some elected officials on with her to say “Hey we are going to pick it up from here and run with it.”? Again it seems like a no brainer. If you need to use your phone, pull over and use it. It isn’t like you have to drive around looking for a pay phone.
Have you noticed that a lot of the new car commercials promote the interactive BS built into the car and not the car its self? Hey, if it were just the idiots on the cell phones getting killed I really would not care but it isn’t.
The other day for the first time since my enrolled in my first film class 40 years ago I viewed the 1939 film “The Story of Alexander Graham Bell” starring Don Ameche, Loretta Young, and Henry Fonda.
This movie contains wonderfully poignant passage that even audiences in 1939 had to laugh at. I cannot quote the line verbatim.
(My apologies to the ladies and the stereotype about women and telephones this invokes scene invokes.)
Bell had trouble introducing his device in the United States and during a demonstration Watson’s landlady interrupted the demonstration at the far end.
Amidst laughter from the crowd assembled at Bell’s end, a potential investor remarked that women would never use the thing.
The recommendation of the NTSB follows the investigation of an accident last year involving a 19yr old driver. He was texting (11 messages in 11 minutes). The accident involved two school buses, the pickup and another vehicle. The 19yr old was killed as well as another. There was already a law banning texting while driving and he obviously broke that law and paid the ultimate price.
My vehicle is equipped with blue tooth and voice recognition.
I can answer my phone, place calls and get directions without removing my hands from the wheel or taking my eyes off the road. It is no more distracting than if someone were in my car with me. It is also far less distracting than if I had a child in a car seat crying,or someone is shaving, applying makeup, eating, or changing a cd. The point is people need to use common sense. We dont need more regulations. I dont text while driving, check email or engage in many of the other applications that are available.
Uh, women would never use the phone? lol
Why is the NTSB making recommendations to the cell phone manufactures? Doesn’t that fall under the domain of the FCC?
I hate phones – every time I hear a phone ring it sounds like “PULL!”