Damn cell phones

Have it's own guidance system? Sounds like a low powered torpedo with wheels!

==Nope, only the car it is UNDER

You waste your airtime on useless calls? The only people that get my cell number are people I want to reach me.

Happy modeming, Bill

I'm sorry, perhaps you didn't read what I was responding to. Obviously you can't pay attention. Thank you.

I don't use a home phone, I spend most of my time away from home. So I feel a cell phone is somewhat useful. However it does not require me to take your call when you call me. I am still allowed to use discretion. If I don't feel like calling someone back right away, I don't. Having a cell phone doesn't make me instantly accessible to anyone who wants to get a hold of me, it makes me instantly accessible to whoever I want to get a hold of. I control when I use it, and how I use it.

Seriously, when you drive, you pay attention to the road. If you take on the responsibility of doing something else while you are driving that becomes your problem. If you can't multitask and you cause a problem, then frankly you must pay for it. Much like no one made a law that you couldn't cook, watch the kids, and talk on the phone at home because you might knock the pot of boiling water onto your kid when you got the cord wrapped around it. Much like it isn't against the law to change the radio station, or change cd's, or anything else. It becomes something that we need to teach people responsibility. Not a law. Laws don't make things better, or safer, or any of that crap. Responsibility for ones own actions is the key.

I see people everyday that are talking on their cell phones, braking on the freeway for no reason, or cutting someone off, or some other stupid action. I still don't think a blanket law will help that. Laws just complicate life even more. We have too many laws. Everyones quick solution to everything is make a law. Laws don't make the world safe. If you want to make a change, start by teaching your kids.

for some reason telemarketers dont call cell phones, or at least mine. ive got virgin mobile, and it costs nothing to check my voicemail from my home phone.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall of the responsible organization if such a device got implemented and "El~Kayieeda" got their hands on it while Dick Cheney was driving along in a motorcade........

"Today, The Newly Elected President Was Killed When His Pacemaker Was Shut Off Accidentally By Law Enforcement Officials..."

Either that or a trial lawyer...

I say let an NGO handle the cell phone issue. Too many laws on the books as it is.

Firearms sound like the answer then,

widely available, widely used and only $0.45 per "use"

:-)

Lemme guess - you're in favor of banning conversations between driver and passenger(s) too, right? If not, you better be since there is no difference.

These geniuses in legislation have everyone so brainwashed that "cell phones" are bad and cause all these accidents.

What will their excuse be when they get all their laws passed and realize that it affected nothing?

Ahh, it's not worth it. Too many people just don't get it and refuse to take their blinders off.

Now this is the sort of clear thinking we need more of in DC! ;)

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You have to dial your passengers? Cool! And you can make 'em shut up with the "end" button? Cooler!

I think that you need control of the privacy glass for full effect ;-)

And you have to mentally visualize them as well?

The study i've heard about suggests that that is the major problem with cell phone usage while driving.

"cone of silence" ala Get Smart!

Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sin (Letzebuergesch)

Don't tease me like that.

he never said he answered the phone, but with it being off, I thought that would be a given.

judge and jury

Yup! Saw one putting on her eye makeup using both hands and looking in the rearview mirror to do it.

Saw a guy ahead of me,cell phone in one hand, and gesticulating wildly with the other. Unless he either had a midget in his lap holding the wheel or he was driving with his johnson no one was in control of the car.

Now, when I see some idiot using the phone while in motion, which is against the law around here, I routinely hold my hand up to my ear as if it was a cell phone then flip them the bird.

"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all."

- Justice William O. Douglas

Good points, but if the call is so important that it must be taken immediately, pull over and devote your full attention to it. That way the call gets the attention it deserves and my safety is not at risk.

"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all."

- Justice William O. Douglas