At 11:52 AM 2007-01-30 -0500, you wrote:
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid legislators are. The problem is
NOT with using a cell phone, or anything else. The problem is that (1)
these people are CRAPPY drivers, and do not belong on the road in the
first place, and (2) driver's education in the is country is
ridiculously horrible! Testing needs to be made MUCH tougher. How about
doing something about THAT???
It ticks me off when I see these people that insist on talking with
their hands, holding the phone in one hand and waving the other around
while driving, not even looking at the road. And you know darned well
they are just 'rag-chewing'.
I somewhat agree with you. However, in my opinion, the problem really is
that folks are concentrating too much on the telephone. Be it social
jibber jabber, talking/arguing with the boss, spouse, girl/boy friend,
etc. I once had a technically heavy conversation with a client while
driving on the freeway and thinking later that I had severe tunnel vision
and reacted poorly to one situation. So now I ensure my cell phone
conversations are much "lighter" in content.
However how do you legislate this?
Besides I seldom use the cell phone anyhow. I don't have any traffic
tieups on my 12 minute daily commute so I'm quite fortunate in that sense.
Tony
