Law Aims to Ban iPod Use on Streets.

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
ok which goon drives with his/her headphones in and ipod playing? lol

:music:

Yah I dunno ... i have this weird thing in my car that I use ... whats it called ... oh yah, A FVCKING RADIO!!!

 

[monk3y]

Not going to happen here... Atleast I hope not.

 

[Rangoric]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Personally, it would probably affect me if I lived in NYC. But some cities have now made it illegal to use cell phones while driving in order to prevent accidents due to distractions, and I don't think there is much of a difference between the two situations.

Cell phones while driving are illegal in all of NY actually... and based on my driving in (the local area of) NY, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

Also, if people listen to too much Eminem, they may lose themselves in the music and then get hit by a car :Q.

Last I looked the law was against using a cell phone without a Hands Free Set. Not against cell phone use in general.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
You know, I used to bash the people on this board in the year's past about being so against the government and these little laws. Big deal, I used to say. But in my days of getting older, I'm understanding more and more how stupid little stuff like this is getting out of hand. They are, in fact, taking away freedoms one-by-one. Sure, the justification of a car swerving and hitting pedestrians on the sidewalk is a legitimate arguement, but I don't we should make laws based on chance like this.

The whole thing is just ridiculous.

Welcome to finally seeing the light. :thumbsup:

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
We're not comparing driving a vehicle to walking across a busy street. We're comparing using a distracting device while driving vs. using a distracting device while crossing a busy cross walk in the city; both can get yourself killed or cause an accident.

As I said, I'll agree with the law when deaf people are banned from crossing streets and driving.

One thing to consider is the possibily that deaf people might be more consciensly aware of their surroundings than those who are not deaf who are distracted by the use of a cell phone or mp3 player.

The only thing to consider here is a movement to stop this errosion of our freedoms in the name of saving us from ourselves.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
We're not comparing driving a vehicle to walking across a busy street. We're comparing using a distracting device while driving vs. using a distracting device while crossing a busy cross walk in the city; both can get yourself killed or cause an accident.

I drive in the city from time to time and I don't think people care if a mud slide is coming when crossing those things.

 

[waggy]

instead of banning Ipods how about they ban walking in front of cars? or ban getting hit by cars. seems like a better idea.

 

[EKKC]

this is ridiculous. i've been a new yorker for over 18 years and people do not look while crossing the street. i am used to it as both a pedestrian and a driver. Cabbies, bus drivers, and myself in an SUV included, always drive full speed ramming into a field of crossing pedestrians but accidents hardly eever happen, because the driver will always know when to stop and pedestrians will know when to stop crossing. to the eye of a tourist or a non new yorker it's like accidents waiting to happen on every manhattan block and corner, but the accident to population RATE is probably not that high.

i dont want to be mean, but the people who got run over being distracted by their own electronic devices, probably aren't too smart to live a long life to begin with, if not for ipod-car accident, probably another stupid freakish accident, like getting fried while blow drying their hair in the tub or something