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I know I am in the minority on this, but I support such severe measures since areas which have imposed fines have not had a significant impact on cellular use and the rise in accidents related to that use.
Using aircraft radio communication for most of my adult life lead me to believe that using a cellphone in a car would be a non issue, but within a month I determined to never use a cellphone while driving because of the impact that it had on my driving performance and haven't since.
As an example, my sister was talking with a friend when the phone went dead... in addition to the phone, the friend, who was driving, was dead as well, apparently because she was not aware of the car that killed her because she was on the phone.
Watch _anyone_ using a cellphone in a car... it's evident even from a distance that using a phone reduces their situational awareness while driving... which should be a full time job.
It would be my assumption that, in practice, this type of law would be implemented primarily in cases where the driver's performance was being observed as impaired, drifting, non responsive, tailgating, etc.
The GPS aspects are going to be interesting as well... especially since they are becoming "standard equipment"
Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
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