Cell phone laws info is hard to understand. I’m not quite sure what the states passing laws against cell phone use while driving are thinking about. It’s almost as if they think that keeping two hands on the wheel will prevent all accidents. It won’t.
We might be better off to pass a law that says you have to keep two hands on the wheel at all times or pay a huge fine. That would stop people from putting on makeup or lipstick at 70 mph but it won’t solve the problem.
Come on, keeping two hands on the wheel isn’t the problem. If it was we’d have a lot more accidents than we do now. I’ve smoked all of my life and haven’t yet had an accident due to smoking. I’ve eaten in my vehicle all my life and haven’t had an accident. I see people reading in their vehicles and I’ve seen a few of them have accidents. What kind of damn fool trys to read a magazine while driving?
According to the info I read it’s not the actual handling of the cell phone that causes the problem or gets a law passed against cell phone usage while driving. It’s driver inattention to what the drive is doing. My cell phone is voice activated so I have to do nothing but open it and speak two words. After that it’s no different than a hands free device. Lol, it’s even hands free if I hold it against my shoulder with my head.
I want you to think about something. When you are trying to see something or pay close attention to something what’s the very first thing you do. It’s either tell people to quiet down or you turn the radio down.
You see, it’s the noise that bothers your attention, not the actual handling of any device. We all turn our radios off and on, up and down, put in CD’s, adjust the mirrors or seat belts and various other little tasks when we are driving. Yet the one that causes us to pay the least attention is noise and talking.
I want you to do a little experiment. The next time you are watching TV news and they are scrolling other news in a bar at the top or bottom watch the scrolling bar and read it. After a couple of minutes try to remember what the newscasters were saying. If you’re paying attention to the scrolling words you don’t really hear them or see the pictures they are showing you.
Next watch the news like normal and then try to remember what was in the scrolling bars, if you even noticed them. By focusing on their voice you miss the scrolling and by focusing on the scrolling you miss the voice and picture.
You are doing nothing but sitting there but you sure can’t do both at once. Well, using a hands free device for your cell phone causes the same problem. You can’t concentrate on talking and driving at the same time. It takes different parts of the brain.
It’s not handling the cell phone that causes the problem, it’s the inattentiveness caused by talking to someone else on the phone, with or without a hands free device. Yes, it’s a problem but banning cell phone usage in the car while still allowing a hands free device is not a solution. It’s a masking of the rue problem.
If they are going to pass cell phone laws you’d think they’d take a better look at the info available to them about what causes accidents. Ban all usage of a cell phone in the car, not just the phone itself. That will go much further in stopping accidents than banning phones but allowing hands free usage.
This is some good cell phone laws info for you so you can be safer. You might want to send an email to your state legislatures letting them know about this problem. Then they’d have some good info for a change.
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