Hands-Free
I don’t know if the reason I don’t pick up my cellphone while I drive is because it’s the law or because of the article I wrote on it and how stupid I would feel if I got a citation. Either way I don’t buy it. There have been so many studies that show that it’s not the fact that you are using your hands to talk on your cellphone that causes a distraction, but the mere fact that your having a conversation that causes distractions.
All this is doing is helping cellphone providers sell Bluetooth’s and headsets as well as save my minutes. I doubt we’ll see the 300 fewer traffic fatalities the Public Policy Institute of California said we would see. At the same time they said the only time where cellphones contributed to traffic deaths was in bad weather and when roads are wet. So why doesn’t the law only make it illegal to use a cell-phone when it’s raining.
Then there’s the other law that says teenagers can’t use a hands-free device because they’re learning to drive, but as someone astutely pointed out what about those drivers who just got their licenses and are over 18. Aren’t they also just learning how to drive why aren’t they put on a probationary period. Then again the authorities won’t know that and will have no way of identifying them.
No one said laws had to make sense right?
