It's not the phones themselves, it's the attitude. People talking on the phone zone out and don't pay attention to anything around them. Besides, this is not the only thing people do, particularly mornings, that distract them..... women applying cosmetics, doing hair; folks fiddling with radios, CD cases, children screaming....
You cannot regulate that kind of thing. You can only make it hurt when it causes a problem. If you were Driving While Distracted, even if it was by yon billboard over there that wasn't even IN your car, and cause a boo-boo, you get busted.
Anything else violates the doctrine of prior restraint. In these days when Dubya wants to take whatever freedom he can get his greasy meat hooks on, don't give him any bright ideas.
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Date: 2004-09-21 07:01 am (UTC)You cannot regulate that kind of thing. You can only make it hurt when it causes a problem. If you were Driving While Distracted, even if it was by yon billboard over there that wasn't even IN your car, and cause a boo-boo, you get busted.
Anything else violates the doctrine of prior restraint. In these days when Dubya wants to take whatever freedom he can get his greasy meat hooks on, don't give him any bright ideas.