Nope.
Nope.
It kept me from getting ran over by the UPS driver last thurs when they pulled out of a parking lot chatting on the phone and failed to look left. LOL
ban data streams:
then traffic will be even worse......everybody will be lost because they can't use google maps to find the nearest starbucks!
then traffic will be even worse......everybody will be lost because they can't use google maps to find the nearest starbucks!
Pretty much correct! LOL.
We would have to go back to our TomToms and Garmins that don't Bluetooth to the phones. Pure GPS.
There is a whole generation of folks that have probably never seen a road map and had to navigate with one.
I've thought this as well. It might be the only way. However, the only problem I can see is how it would effect passengers. It would be nice to have a solution that did not effect the passengers ability to use cell phone data. Also, the driver needs access to GPS navigation on the cell phone.
No the driver doesn't need GPS navigation on the cell phone. There are stand alone GPS units that talk to you, and won't allow use of a phone.
Screw the passengers. They don't have a right to be on the phone. Its a convenience. Remember the old days when people actually talked to each other while driving down the road, and one had a map in their lap to give directions to the driver vs everybody looking at their crotch now?
How in the heck did people before cellphones navigate this country? Maps and memory is how. Road signs are everywhere to direct a driver to an exit, etc.
This law wouldn't have stopped it.
Part of why we are so screwed up as a nation is this nanny state mentality where we must be protected from any danger. We as a collective want to force others to live in any number of ways by the penalty of law. Goes a long way to show why we have like 3% of the worlds population and 25% of the worlds prison population.
I don't know about you but I'd like to hold on to every sliver of freedom we have left. If we keep making laws to outlaw any activity someone does not like, we will delve further into the police state we find ourselves in now. Hold people accountable for damages to others but don't make another law to be harassed with. This law already exempts using music of your phone or making a call. So what's your recourse if you are changing your pandora station and an officer thinks you are texting?
About your disabling data stream while in motion. Sure would suck for anyone else riding in the car or kids streaming videos on a trip, etc.
They have always advocated pulling over to take a call but I don't know about you, parking on the side of a busy highway is exponentially more dangerous than just keeping with the flow of traffic. I mean how different is talking on the phone and talking with someone in your car? Maybe they will ban in vehicle conversation next. It's for the children after all.
+1
Defensive driving is the only way to avoid most collisions. Sometimes that means driving 15-20 over to get around a truck in a timely manner or get to a more open spot in traffic or away from some jackass watching a video on his iPad driving down the road. I will say that it blows me away the amount of heavy traffic people will be on their phone in. Open road with few cars and no turns, a quick glance to coordinate stuff going on is normal and most of us do it occasionally. Writing a novel in rush hour is just plain stupidity and I will drive aggressively to get away from that driver. YMMV.
You can Bluetooth your phones navigation through the car stereo. Put a mount for your phone in and it is literally the same thing as a garmin without having to buy another device.
Face it Dennis, no one is going to go back to the "good ole days" of travel where maps were unfolded across the passenger seat and children playing road sign games to pass the time. Let's ban everything modern that could be construed as dangerous to others. Then those terrorists wouldn't have to be so jealous of our "freedom".
