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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
Sacrifice some privacy for safety on the road.
We here in New Zealand made it illegal to txt or talk on a hands held mobile a year or so ago and it certainly "feels" safer not to see some stupid teen txt-ing while selecting tunes on the ipod and doing the compusary for any self respecting teen; driving faster than everyone else.
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While I fully agree that it would be a lot safer to have this ban and I do my part to add to the safety. I don't want anyone to get me wrong here. I am completely against texting while driving and using a hand held for a phone call.
I don't feel that I should sacrifice my privacy.
Here is why: I am a chemist and have a lot of correspondence on my phone with other colleagues discussing chemicals, testing, ordering and what not. All I need is for some idiot over zealous local cop to miss read that as something bad and try and arrest me for possible terrorist activities charge which would be totally bogus. Then there I am sitting in a jail until they collect evidence and put together a case for a judge, while I miss work, possibly get fired and waste my time just because I chose to sacrifice my privacy. Yeah I know I am not doing anything wrong, but how is the officer going to interpret that.