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Originally Posted by Baz
Amazingly.....most states have yet to ban cell phone use while driving.
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I was also T-boned a few years ago by a driver using a phone who blew thru a stop sign. I posted some of the following thoughts in a recent thread about this same subject:
Will laws ever be effective in getting people to stop playing with their phones while driving? Probably not. Do laws keep people from using heroin, or other dangerous and addictive substances? No, they don't. A great many people are now addicted to mobile devices and literally
can't put them down, ever!
There's also much resistance to pass laws punishing drivers for using cell phones. It's a huge vested interest on the part of service providers, social media platforms, search engines, developers, advertisers, and the phone manufacturers themselves to have people engaged with their phones as much as possible. There are millions of lobbying dollars being spread around at both the state and federal levels to make sure that nothing comes between people and those beloved mobile devices. As we've all witnessed, laws regarding cell phone use while driving, and their enforcement, are a total joke. They just give politicians an excuse for their inaction by saying that they tried to do do something about the problem.
"Hey, we passed some laws, what more can we do?"
The phone manufacturers and/or vehicle producers should be required by law to step up and prevent phones from operating while in motion at any speed above a walking pace. This is the only type of law that'll solve this problem. And if people are inconvenienced by it...too bad! How many more will wind up injured, crippled, or dead before pressure from lobbyists is ignored and common sense prevails?