A Texting Driver's Education
A Texting Driver's Education
From a historical perspective, cellphones have a couple of unique attributes:
- They became popular long after political leaders learned the value of keeping accurate acciednt statistics.
- With few exceptions, there is no demonstrable contribution to public safety made by motorists who text while driving.
As a result, the cellular industry is having to face a sharp downturn in mobile usage, as states ban not only text, but *ALL* cellphone use by drivers. Connecticutt will be citing users after October 1, and it's only a matter of time before the rest follow.
A cynic might say that the Insurance industry's lobbyists are duking it out with the cellular industry's lobbysists, but I think there's a more prosaic reason: the same computers which enabled texting have also enable the sharing of news and opinions by voters at all points on the political spectrum, and that means that ordinary people have been confronted with irrefutable evidence of the dangers of using cellphones while behind the wheel.
Bill Horne Moderator
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Monty Solomon in General Telecommunications Forum
