No bold ethics reform, cutting wild spending or taxes yet, but the Illinois Senate passed a ban 45-6 on using mobile devices for text messages while driving.
The ban apparently does not prevent one from using a GPS system on a mobile device, but one cannot "surf the web" while driving.
While public safety is important and we strongly urge drivers to use common sense and caution at all times, not just when looking at a mobile device, do you agree a law should exist to ban you from ever using a mobile device for text or web while driving?
3 comments:
Since people who do this do not have enough common sense not to do it then yes it should be done. Too many accidents have happened due to this.
If a person crosses the center line or runs a stop light or any other action which results in an accident is the accident any more or less of an accident?
The fact remains that an accident has occurred and that the driver that crossed the center line etc. has committed and infraction that is subject to receiving a ticket for a violation of the motor vehicle code.
Anyone that is texting, reading, shaving, applying makeup or any other such activity that is such a distraction are idiots and fools that are endangering their own and other people's safety and lives.
I have to presume that with such a prohibition a police officer will be able to stop an automobile if he sees a driver engaged such activities. That is short of an accident and maybe that is a good thing.
So with that said I still ask just how much more of an accident does it become if a person is engaged in such activities? The police cannot see everyone all the time.
This legislature cannot figure out how to manage itself or this state but somehow seems to continue in its belief not unlike everyone in power, especially people in political office and bureaucrats, that it can micromanage every detail of our lives. And that does not even address the financial incentive to the state to the extent that it is present.
It is continuing proof of the arrogance of the people in the legislature and the bureaucrats that support them.
Also, remember the magician and the distraction to accomplish his end. So while the legislature has everyone thinking about drivers sending text messages what are they doing otherwise?
I don't understand how people can text when they drive in the first place. Every time that I've tried to text while driving, I've spilled my beer.
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