Car Cellphone Bans Driving Bluetooth

jmatheny14 noted that the BBC is running an article about an unexpected side effect of car cellphone bans. It says"Legislation banning the use of mobile phones in cars is spurring car manufactures to look for alternatives such as Bluetooth." and "Because it can be used with a hands-free headset that can connect to a mobile phone even if the device is some distance away, it could be a perfect way to get around the ban."

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it's going to be "Blue Eye" networking.

[garcia]

when I connect w/the driver's face after he hits me b/c he was too busy talking to someone else instead of paying attention to where he was going.

car cellphones?

[Anonymous Coward]

When did cellphones gain sentience, let alone power to pass laws? And when did they become our masters, telling us where we can use our technology and where -- hang on, lemme get that...

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[Anonymous Coward]

Gives a whole new meaning to war driving.

Pull up beside someone with a BlueTooth enabled phone and make a call.

Sheesh!! there is a reason cell phones are banned.

[goombah99]

This is like saying "oh no officer I haven't been drinking, I've just been using an experimental hallucinogen that isn't listed as an illegal drug". There is a reason cell phones are banned, merely escaping on a technicality is not solving the problem. The problem is lack of driver attention. Hands free sets dont solve that either.

it should just be a crime to drive inattentively or to create diversions for yourself.

This is great!!

[MongooseCN]

While riding my bike I've been nearly hit twice by drivers talking on their cell phones and not concentrating on the road. But now if people use Bluetooth technology to transmit their voice to their cellphones instead of talking directly on the cellphone, I'll be perfectly safe!

What other loopholes will people try to get away with next?

Sorry officer, I didn't mean to go through that intersection and run over that biker, but according to my color sensor that street light had an RGB value of (253, 0, 0) so it wasn't fully red.