Cell phones with head sets have been dismissed as just as distracting as a cell phone without one: [New study says headsets don't make cellphone-driving safer - Engadget. It isn't what exactly one is doing, it is the fact that one is multi-tasking at all while driving a huge hunk of metal at a high rate of speed. Some people are ready to trip over themselves voting for legislation to fight terrorists, and meanwhile car accidents are a leading cause of death and injury in this country, but some scoff at this legislation as too restrictive. Whether or not stuff like this gets passed, local law enforcement just doesn't have the resources to catch every distracted driver - which is most drivers.

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Yeah. That makes us just like the Soviet Union.

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why don't we teach drivers in driver's ed. to drive with cell phones and coffee and teach them to read and put on makeup....that would seem to be more logical....lol

Im Not Complaning about Cell Phones,,Im Complaning about you cant Eat or Drink when you own youre own car.Its Bad Enough they enforce these rules on Public Transportation.

eating food and drinking liquids is a huge hazard. its 2 hands on the wheel while driving for a reason. you want to eat - pull over. countless times i've seen people driving with just their thighs as they chomp down on a burger - real safe huh

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Wow, I'm getting pretty good at telling your threads apart, even before I open them. Steveox, your all over the place, it wouldn't hurt you to have a little consisistity. Weren't you the same one who wanted a communism state? Please pick a side and stick to it. not that I see how this has anything to do with Soviet Russia in the first place. O.o

But STOP TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO DO WHEN THEY OWN SOMETHING!! You dont tell a homeowner what you can or cant bring into his own home do you? You dont tell a Store owner what he can or cant sell or what price to put it in his own store do you? Like we own cars.Why should we be forced to buy auto insurance? Why should we be forced to take our cars to emmisson testing and pay $20? And why should we be forced to wear seat belts or helmets of its our life? But No one tells the woman she cant have an abortion its the babys right to live? Whatever happend to THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE? Thats what Abortion people say Its a womans right to choose But the ACLU will never defend you on goverments laws on automobles cause the ACLU isnt for equal rights. Theyre for WOMEN And MINORITES!!

I have a friend who reads the fucking morning newspaper while he is driving to a jobsite. He'll be driving and occasionally look over the paper to see what is happening on the road.

He also thinks he needs to keep looking at you instead of the road when he talks and he jabberjaws and only shuts up when he takes a toke off his joint because he's all geeked out on coffee and stupified on ganja.

We were going to a side job one Saturday morning and he was drinking his coffee, readfing his newspaper, talking to me, non-chalantly waving his joint around, ashing it out the window advertizing the fact that he is smoking pot to everyone on the road.

He was always slamming on the brakes because he doesn't notice that everyone on the road is stopping for a red light except for him until the last second. (Then he wonders why he wears out his brakes so damn fast).

He says he does it all the time. I say it's only a matter of time before he meets with tragedy.

Naturally I will not ever get into a vehicle with him at the controls again. His brothers are just as bad. I won't get into a truck with any of them at the wheel. It's just too stressful.

It's almost as stressful as your kid getting their first car.

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I guess Vermont ran out of money and figured they need to make some more stupid laws to try and scrape some more cash from its inhabitants.

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I'd say that's about the gist of it.

I mean I am all for safety on the roads, but the thing is, local governments tend to look at this type of thing as a means to gather revenue. A back channel form of taxation.

Laws like this will certainly be abused.

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Now you wonder why i dont like COPS! And you wonder why i call them PIGS?
cause they dont really protect you.They rather enforce petty stuff so they stay safe collect their paychecks and see their wife and kids.Hell they wont even bother going into a dangerous neighborhood at night unless theyre called.

I have a good friend who just got "promoted" to detective a couple of months ago. Since then his first job was on sex crimes and child abuse. He had some funny/sad stories of people getting themselves into trouble. He also had some cases of seriously bad people doing bad things. People who needed to be taken out of society. Most recently he was part of the team that found a toddler abandoned in the cold to die.

He transferred to this position from one at an airport, which sounded like one of the easiest jobs possible for a cop.

You obviously don't know what you're talking about (as usual). I've personally had police officers put themselves at risk to protect me, without my even asking. I have no doubt that had someone pointed a gun at me, any one of those fine men and women would have stepped in the way.



Now, just out of curiosity, other than inane threads, delusional babbling, and bad English, what exactly do YOU contribute to society?

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I will likely never be able to comprehend the level of insanity that you deal with daily.

Auto insurance? Are you fucking serious? If you run a light while you're chomping down a Big Mac, and t-bone my car, why shouldn't you have to pay for the damage and the almost certain medical bills?

The rest of your little hissy fit isn't really worth responding to because, well, you're insane...

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At this point, I have been driving for just under 70 years, Started when I was 8. The point???

I have been involved in three accitents, two of those times I was hit while standing still (once by a Hicago police Car) and the other time it was Icy roads, and the other driver was at fault. ---- More of the point.

I almost NEVER have two hands on the wheel. I did when the vehicles were hard to steer, but nowdays, even without power steering they are not, except ion hazardous roads. I am opposed to many of the so-called safety requirements presently enforced. This includes Kids being forced to ride in the back, Seat belt enforcement, and most certainly all of the things referenced in this thread. These thing should all be governed by common sense, NOT by governmental edict.