U.S. Dept. of Transportation Wants to Disable Phones in Cars

or day care cant call and tell me something is wrong with my child or any one millions of possibilities and things that DO happen while in your car US depart of transportation think thats okay? Its not going to happen. SO many lawsuits would hit that it wouldnt last long.

Let's see...

*I can't call the local sheriff to say I'm hurt or someone else was just in an accident.

*My passengers are stuck listening to radio because they can't use Pandora.

*I'm stuck with $200 worth of bluetooth equipment I bought so I could call/text LEGALLY.

*My passengers can't text/call their friends and family.

*AT&T Navigator and Google Navigation are now useless while driving, you know, when I need them.

I really do understand where this guy is coming from. I've seen plenty of idiots out there yakking away on their cell phones while they do incredibly stupid things with their vehicles. I've even ridden with a friend who is one of those people, completely oblivious to the road when she's on her phone, which is a lot. So I understand what he's trying to accomplish. However, this doesn't seem like a good solution. First, something like this is going to require changes in both handsets and vehicles in order to work. I suspect that it would require that each vehicle have a transponder of some sort that tells a compliant phone that it is moving, which makes the phone alter the way it handles calls and texts. OK, fine, but what kind of chang...
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If my phone ceases to function in my car, how will I use my VZNavigator?!? I'll be lost all the time! Oh no! 👀

How would this blocking technology discern between a driver's cell phone and a passengers? It wouldn't? FAIL!!!

When was the last time anyone has seen someone put 100% focus and attention on the road in front of them?
Distractions will be a part of everyday life whether it be behind a motor vehicle or at the job.

Next if this does not work is charging everyone DUI for it. Driving under influence of being too chatty.

A police radio is just as distracting as a cell phone

1984.

Then ban kids, car stereo, eating, and talking to someone in the car. All just as dangerous according to AAA.

to ask if those of us who have used cell service (in my case for nearly 19 years) have ever had an accident or close call. I've have had hands free, phone to the ear and blue tooth and no problems. You have to pay attention to the road first and your call is secondary or less. Less government is a good thing. If I need a babysitter, I'll let you know.

I'm still bitching about the mandatory seat belt laws for adults while motorcycle drivers can go riding without helmets. Now they want to take away my cell phone? 👿 Time to ban drive-thru windows and car stereos.I guess to the DOT driving should be like being in a MRI chamber with windows.

I've known one too many innocent people killed by distracted drivers. If you don't, you're not old enough. I take things like this personally.

For several months now, I've been stewing over a handset level, software based solution to restrict drivers from using cellular devices without affecting the ability of passengers or mass transit users to operate their devices. It would also allow white-list functionality to support GPS systems and Pandora while disallowing high distraction services like SMS and non-emergency calling. It would also be easy to implement at the service provider level for wider, faster deployments.

So far, the results are very, very promising. My modeling looks great. I just need to find a crew with be...
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all the lies they want, i call B.S on them and say they have gone too far and I will be the first one to circumvent it and to join in to thwart their attempts to pass it into law. YOU WILL NOT TELL ME WHERE I CAN AND CAN NOT USE MY OWN PROPERTY THAT I PAY FOR. COMMUNIST DICTATORS!! 😈 👿 😈 👿

When politicians position things such as this, they don't really expect the idea to come into fruition. They want to bolster an alternative viewpoint that will seem more approachable by conveying an extreme.

Seriously, blocking technology sounds very dangerous if something goes wrong. Also it sounds very expensive to implement and the payoff isn't foreseeably worth it. In addition, what about passengers in a vehicle? They aren't even driving and have to be punished? Noooooooo.

The idea here is for people to say, " Gosh that's so extreme, I wouldn't mind a ban on using cell phones if an officer sees you but ... clearly not this".

Let's see how success he will be in this

I will be voting against my Congressman if he votes for this bill.

I told all of you when you were talking about how great blocking of cell service in prisons was that the government would soon look to block coverage in other places. There were so many comments mocking me.

What happens when this technology is deployed? What happens when a passenger wants to use a device? How far do the 20 something bloggers here want the government to get into their lives?

they don't actually say 5,000 deaths and 500,000 injuries cause people use their cell phones while driving, they say distracted drivers which in turn means a lot of different things then just using your cell phone, ie: eating, putting make up on, fumbling through cds, etc...

what about a cell blocking technology that blocks all cell phone transmissions on the drivers side under the panel that works up to 1 foot from the driver. i agree that some people shouldnt drive and talk at the same time and i do it too, so im to blame too, but they need to get off this and stop making the US a police state.

i think i did more damage when i was messing with the satellite radio then my cell phone

Just have the government fund OnStar on every single vehicle in the US and pay for the yearly fee 😁 then that's the law we're talking about!

Just a thought