I don't know. My main problem is that the economy has adjusted to the need of using a cell phone while driving. I deliver pizzas and it really helps our customers out if I need to call to ask for a little better instructions if it's some obscure house or they gave the wrong info or cross street or to let them know if I'm going to be a little late because of a wreck or construction delay. Sure beats the old method of finding the nearest pay phone...saves tons of time which saves money.
My dad's jobs as a travel salesmen the last 10 years have totally relied on cell phone talking while driving.
Just another law to punish ALL for the actions of an extremely small percentage.
Here are some abstracts, as has been mentioned full articles cost money but may be available at your university library:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...6884056&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...6310750&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...6268934&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum
"The study is based on an experiment where drivers with and without communication training (pilots vs. nonpilots) completed a simulated driving course while involved in one of three conversation modes: no conversation, conversation with passenger, or conversation on a hands-free cellular telephone. Results indicate that cellular telephone conversations consume more attention and interfere more with driving than passenger conversations. Cell phone conversations lack the nonverbal cues available during close-contact conversations and conversation participants expend significant cognitive resources to compensate for the lack of such cues."
The evidence on this matter is quite clear. Cell phone conversations cause accidents whether hands-free or not. Banning only hand helds still makes sense from an enforcement standpoint, as it's a lot easier to detect handheld usage. Studies that used phone records to check for usage prior to accidents provide even stronger evidence in support of bannination.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...6884056&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...6310750&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...6268934&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum
"The study is based on an experiment where drivers with and without communication training (pilots vs. nonpilots) completed a simulated driving course while involved in one of three conversation modes: no conversation, conversation with passenger, or conversation on a hands-free cellular telephone. Results indicate that cellular telephone conversations consume more attention and interfere more with driving than passenger conversations. Cell phone conversations lack the nonverbal cues available during close-contact conversations and conversation participants expend significant cognitive resources to compensate for the lack of such cues."
The evidence on this matter is quite clear. Cell phone conversations cause accidents whether hands-free or not. Banning only hand helds still makes sense from an enforcement standpoint, as it's a lot easier to detect handheld usage. Studies that used phone records to check for usage prior to accidents provide even stronger evidence in support of bannination.
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fvcking with your stereo takes a split second while talking on your cell phone takes several minutes.
anyway, all this really does is put money in the pockets of headset makers.
cost increase: $20 a phone
lives saved: 0
net -$20*number of phones
Typical slippery slope argument..
Your kids can't drive, you have no choice but to take them along.
You can however, not talk on your cell phone.
OMG, I hate people than go into the fast lane (!!!) right in front of you and go slower than the cruising lane! WTF! And it's always a woman on her cell phone! An old granny! Grrr! Yay for this law! :beer:
Only people in California know the blessings of this law! EVERYONE in/around San Francisco and San Jose are ALWAYS on their phone. It is very common to see someone on their phone and hold up more traffic on an already congested highway and street.
:Q
and in other news: Study: 92% of Democrats are gay, Only dorks watch CNN, and JFK Posthumously joins Republican party!
I'd like to see someone try to enforce a ban on text massaging while driving. It's obvious when someone is talking on a cell phone when driving a car. Text messaging is not so obvious, they could just be fiddling with the radio.
First of all, several studies have shown hands free cellphone devices are just as dangerous to use when operating a vehicle as using just the cellphone.
Also, if you people hate those that use cellphones when they are driving so much, then just get a cell phone jammer and then the problem will go away quickly.
Also, if you people hate those that use cellphones when they are driving so much, then just get a cell phone jammer and then the problem will go away quickly.
I think here in CO it is a age limit, 15-18 cant use it and drive. Not sure though, but i dont mind since im 25 anyway.
Im almost positive its 15-17. Luckily im 19, so I dont care. Colorado is run by idiots, so laws like this dont suprise me. The only good law we created recently was the one about keeping the slow people in the right lane on highways, although its hard to enforce until somebody gives me a means to shoot the idiots out of the left lane.
but wouldn't stopping people from holding phones reduce the number of conversations? unless everyone goes out and buys a headset.
If it's the act of holding something that's dangerous, they better ban holding anything at all, IE: Drinks, food, and anything else.
But it isn't simply because they're holding something, it's the act of the conversation drawing their attention away from the road.
But it isn't simply because they're holding something, it's the act of the conversation drawing their attention away from the road.
I think the beef that some people have with your post is the ambiguous usage of "conversation", which could include phone or driver-passenger conversations.
The studies I've seen have shown that changing the radio, talking to a passenger, etc, is less disruptive than talking on the phone, hands-free or not.
How are they going to catch you text-messaging when you're holding the phone beneath your window? This law will encourage text messaging to hide it from police which is more dangerous. This law does nothing but harm society.
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