NHTSA wants a "cell phone ban"

The National Highway and Transportation Safety Association wants a national ban on cell phones in cars (hands free or not) because they believe cell phones cause such a distraction that they need removed. What they don't tell you is that all traffic accidents in the nation for a year that may or may not have been related to cell phones totaled.....less than 3,500. In the nation. While this number isn't small, remember that they aren't confident cell phones played a role and that tens of thousands of accidents occur every year; making this a small overall percentage. Not to mention the fact that one of their key 'examples' was that of a 19 year old who was on his phone while driving his truck and caused essentially a 38 person accident. What they glean over was the fact that in his state, it was illegal for him to be on the phone already. So what NHTSA wants to do is create another law, on top of a law. If the driver already broke the law, why would another law stop them? This is the same non-sense that is used in modern gun laws; as if it is the lack of laws that are the problem.

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