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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."
passengers are usually reasonably aware of what is going on on the road and will often stop talking to the driver if they detect danger,
Exactly, when someone stops talking in a car, I always realize that death is coming.
Riiiight. Put down the bong, please. It is effecting your concept of time.
Honestly, the above passage is one of the most flawed and skewed arguments I have heard, and really doesn't reflect the realities of the roadway.
If only those fictional highways that the poster speaks of have that lazy reaction time that the poster wishes. There never would be a major roadway death.
After all, as a news photographer visiting about two major interstate accidents a week, I only see the aftermath. Most people's irresponsibility actually takes out the other guy. It seems in my more than limited experience of seeing roadway deaths that drunk and distracted drivers never kill themselves, they simply bounce off of the other car that they they have now sent into oncoming traffic. Its always the drunk/cellphone talking asshole sitting on the shoulder of the road with a sad face when I drive up.
Let me take off my journalistic hat and say to all of you who drive around with cell phones running that I hate you all. Every last one of you. You are killing others. And it is a collective killing. If you are talking on a cell phone in high traffic you are a party to it. I am not going to mix words here. I am the one shooting the pictures. I see the death. If anyone is a paramedic, please testify to this truth.
Honestly, the worst thing that ever happened with the cell phone in a car thing is that Nikki Taylor didn't die from her stupidity. It became a joke lesson. Nothing learned in the face of the public. She should have died, and there should have been a national campaign. Her beautiful face, and the words, "A cell phone killed her while driving. Think about it."
But no, now were stuck with talking about it. Please. Go right ahead. Coninue killing people. Be my guest.
I am sorry that I am heavy handed, but it is the truth.