NYS Cell Phone Ban While Driving is a Double Standard
by The double standard of talking and driving.
Image via Wikipedia
New York State’s cell phone ban while driving is a double standard. Here’s why you can still turn on your car CB radio and talk with truckers on highways just like you talk to people by dialing a number. What really should be done is ban the use of Cell phones between certain hours of the day and certain areas of the city, where New Dorp Lane and Hylan Blvd intersect ban their use there.
The whole point of this ban was to promote driver safety. Well why don’t we ban eating while driving. I can seriously see someone getting into an accident by using a napkin to wipe that smear of ketchup off and not paying attention to the road. Oh right, if you did that you’d run into a huge market of fast food resistance.
What about if you were talking to another person in the car? Let’s ban that. Its same idea as talking to someone on the phone that isn’t in the car with you. You can get into some heated dialogue with people in your car, maybe talking should be outlawed too because it promotes unsafe driving.
The whole idea that you get more distracted holding a phone then talking hands free is ridiculous. People are going to talk they are social creatures. Wither it is by cell phone or just to the passenger you can’t regulate that. Either ban talking in a car altogether or remove this silly ban. It does nothing but make the cops look silly for not pulling you over.
Cell Phone ban, I remember all the hoopla it caused. Yea it will cut down on accidents. It will make more people alert. The police will pull you over. HA. How much of that really happened? Accidents stayed the same they just were caused because of other reasons. People are as alert as they are going to be. Either they will swerve around a truck and miss it or they will hit it. There is no need to make people more alert who are already distracted listening to the radio and talking with friends. The police have other fish to fry then pull you over for talking on your cell phone. They are looking for thieves, red light jumpers, and the nearest donut shop. Don’t get me wrong the police keep us safe, and I appreciate that, but somewhere along the line cell phone ticketing went away.
Yesterday there was a drag net to give tickets out to people talking on their cell phone. How many tickets were issued? How many more people just waited until that day was over to get back on their cell phones the next day.
I am not saying cell phones are good and give people the right to flaunt the law. But there are a lot more important things than giving a ticket to someone for talking on a cell phone, maybe catching some terrorists?
Liked it
