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Feds seek to jam cell phones in cars

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jammers are in place and on going around the world. You can't trust people to do the right thing. The insurance industry are the ones pushing this.
 
loki8481 said:
I've never met anyone who said "you know what, I'm really bad at driving while talking"

and yet... most people are pretty damn bad at driving while talking/texting/etc.

but sure, you're the exception 🙄 😉
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On the contrary, there are plenty of people who can talk and drive at the same time.

There are also people who can't WALK and talk at the same time. Should we ban cellphones on sidewalks because they might walk out into traffic? Should we ban sidewalks because someone might trip and fall on one while having a conversation?

How far should the nanny state go?

Keeping me from talking on my cellphone while driving in no way makes me safer on the road.

But, hey, you're welcome to castrate yourself and lock yourself up in a padded room to avoid potentially hurting yourself. I, however, refuse to do the same.
 
I feel like this isn't going to end up going anywhere. There are too many potential problems with physically preventing people from making calls in cars well beyond the annoyance factor. Safety concerns aside, it's just not a solution to the problem.
 
Craig234 said:
, I support bans on *all* non-emergency cell phone use, hands-free or not, while driving, and educational efforts to get people to not use them.
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Anyone else SHOCKED!???? :roll:

Stupid F'n nanny state bitches. Here's a clue - being on the road is a risk. Don't want the risk - don't use the damn roads. Here's another clue - learn how to drive defensively, it'll decrease your odds of being in an accident. Yes, you can't eliminate the risk but trying to ban cell phones is just plain stupid.
 
CADsortaGUY said:
Anyone else SHOCKED!???? :roll:

Stupid F'n nanny state bitches. Here's a clue - being on the road is a risk. Don't want the risk - don't use the damn roads. Here's another clue - learn how to drive defensively, it'll decrease your odds of being in an accident. Yes, you can't eliminate the risk but trying to ban cell phones is just plain stupid.
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Lol, you live in Bumfuck Iowa, try living ina place like Boston where the drivers suck hard without the distraction of Cell Phones.

Look I'm not usually for the Government being this intrusive but just crossing the road here is dangerous enough without Mary Jane Rotten Crotch from Revere talking on her Cell Phone while driving. As far as I'm concerned driving and talking on a cell phone or texting is equivelant to driving while impaired.
 
Red Dawn said:
Lol, you live in Bumfuck Iowa, try living ina place like Boston where the drivers suck hard without the distraction of Cell Phones.

Look I'm not usually for the Government being this intrusive but just crossing the road here is dangerous enough without Mary Jane Rotten Crotch from Revere talking on her Cell Phone while driving. As far as I'm concerned driving and talking on a cell phone or texting is equivelant to driving while impaired.
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lol, so don't live in moronville then. Oh wait... since you have an issue - you want to force everyone else to conform... by using the gov't.
Do you not understand that there are many other habits of drivers that are just as dangerous if not more so than talking on a cell? Eating? <gasp> talking to others in the car<gasp> putting on their makeup? shaving? changing the radio? Looking at the GSP nav? BAN IT ALL because Red Dawn and the rest of the pussies that need the gov't to protect them are scared...
 
Red Dawn said:
Lol, you live in Bumfuck Iowa, try living ina place like Boston where the drivers suck hard without the distraction of Cell Phones.

Look I'm not usually for the Government being this intrusive but just crossing the road here is dangerous enough without Mary Jane Rotten Crotch from Revere talking on her Cell Phone while driving. As far as I'm concerned driving and talking on a cell phone or texting is equivelant to driving while impaired.
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Speaking as someone else who lives in a highly congested traffic area (Washington DC and surrounding area has some epic fail traffic), I'd say the biggest problem is that we're putting together a whole bunch of people who are just terrible drivers. Cell phones make them worse, but seeing how the average driver fails at the simplest of tasks, with no distractions, makes me realize how dangerous driving is always going to be.

My main concern is that idiots are idiots (and most people seem to fall into this category behind the wheel). You can't force them to pay attention and make smart decisions, no matter what distractions you take away. In other words, I'm not sure cell phones are the problem so much as they are A problem. Which is fine, but taking it away won't help as much as people think it might.
 
CADsortaGUY said:
lol, so don't live in moronville then. Oh wait... since you have an issue - you want to force everyone else to conform... by using the gov't.
Do you not understand that there are many other habits of drivers that are just as dangerous if not more so than talking on a cell? Eating? <gasp> talking to others in the car<gasp> putting on their makeup? shaving? changing the radio? Looking at the GSP nav? BAN IT ALL because Red Dawn and the rest of the pussies that need the gov't to protect them are scared...
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For a pudge you're pretty brave from the anonymity of your keyboard. I'm betting you'd change your tune if your wife or her child was killed by some bimbo texting on her cell.
 
Red Dawn said:
For a pudge you're pretty brave from the anonymity of your keyboard. I'm betting you'd change your tune if your wife or her child was killed by some bimbo texting on her cell.
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ah yes, the ultimate appeal to emotion and ignore the logic... how nice. Here's a clue - laws and decisions based on emotion usually don't work out the way they were intended.
 
CADsortaGUY said:
ah yes, the ultimate appeal to emotion and ignore the logic... how nice. Here's a clue - laws and decisions based on emotion usually don't work out the way they were intended.
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No but decisions based on stats often do hence the law against drivibng while under the influence.
 
Red Dawn said:
No but decisions based on stats often do hence the law against drivibng while under the influence.
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Now go back to my post a try again. This time without the emotional BS.

ol, so don't live in moronville then. Oh wait... since you have an issue - you want to force everyone else to conform... by using the gov't.
Do you not understand that there are many other habits of drivers that are just as dangerous if not more so than talking on a cell? Eating? <gasp> talking to others in the car<gasp> putting on their makeup? shaving? changing the radio? Looking at the GSP nav? BAN IT ALL because Red Dawn and the rest of the pussies that need the gov't to protect them are scared...
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Feds seek to jam cell phones in cars
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Distracted drivers are a huge problem. So as far as government is concerned the only solution is the government. They must act! For the children!!!

What you are faced with are two things. They think of themselves as omnipotent deities. You see, for anything negative in life they can simply whisk it away. They have granted themselves the power to fix everything!

Second, they present to you a false dilemma of needing to act to fix this. They MUST do something, anything, or government is failing you. You wouldn't want it to fail to serve and protect, would you? Trick question, anyone who wouldn't want their protection is a terrorist. Ask the TSA.

This is nothing short of tyranny.
 
CADsortaGUY said:
Now go back to my post a try again. This time without the emotional BS.
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Like I said you convenient libetarian, the stats show that talking on the phone or texting while driving is an impairment. I'm don't think this will gain much traction but I do support the fines and points against ones driver licesne if busted doing either.
 
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The FCC won't even allow the use of cellular phone jammers in state prisons, but the DOT thinks they would be allowed wholesale in new motor vehicles...
 
charrison said:
One has to start to wonder if this admin is trying to kill cars and air travel....
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This is their plan to implement high speed rail across the country. You know, every liberal's wet dream transportation system.

How about treat cell phone use, without a hands free or similar system, as drunk driving. Same fines, same treatment. The system is already in place, just start enforcing it that way.

This administration seems to lean toward preventing people from hurting themselves versus holding people that hurt others accountable. That's the very definition of a nanny state.
 
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Red Dawn said:
Like I said you convenient libetarian, the stats show that talking on the phone or texting while driving is an impairment. I'm don't think this will gain much traction but I do support the fines and points against ones driver licesne if busted doing either.
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Why are you ignoring what I posted? I've not challenged the stats so I don't know why you think you need to keep bringing them up. Surely you understand that cell phones are only a piece of the distracted driving problem/issue - no?
 
drebo said:
On the contrary, there are plenty of people who can talk and drive at the same time.
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No, it's distracting. Every study shows this.

You're just so distracted that you're distracted from your distractedness and so think that you're not distracted.
Pay better attention.
 
dmcowen674 said:
Not true and if that is anyone's plan it doesn't have a prayer unless hydrogen is used instead of diesel.
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I assumed it would be powered by the passengers' sense of smugness. In which case, it could travel from New York to Los Angeles in about 8 minutes.
 
LaHood was on Ronn Owen's radio show (KGO am, San Francisco) a few days before the election and was vehement in his objection to in-car cell phone use. Refused to take a call from a caller who admitted to using a cell phone, hands free.
A device such as that would be encumbering passenger's ability to use a phone, or are they going to be blanketed as well?
 
they sky is falling! the sky is falling! Grow some. Little whiny bitches are like a fucking womens circle on a saturday night no less.
 
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