One more step to swerve-free roads? Uh, maybe?
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pre-filed bills this week to banish cell phones from Missouri roadways.
Reps. Joe Smith, a St. Charles Republican, and TD El-Amin, a St. Louis Democrat, have nearly identical bills that would ban drivers from using cell phones unless the phones have hands-free devices, like a Bluetooth receiver.
Now we just need the book reading, shaving, make-uping, txting, radio listening, fellow passenger and karaoke bans. Then, finally, our roads will be safe. Except, of course, for the bad drivers out there.
Not sure how effective a $25-$50 fine's going to be, either, or how wise it is to be pulling the PD off the busy task of, you know, keeping us safe and putting them on cell phone patrol. Isn't cell phone use a problem when it's endangering others? And if that's the case, isn't there already a law on the books for that? I would be interested to see how often reckless cell phone use was prosecuted under that particular statute, and whether the new law would do more to decrease prosecutions so premised or would, instead, do more to generate a new stream of funds for the big g-o-v.
Anybody have an insight on this?
1 comments:
You too, huh? We had the pleasure of such a law being passed quite recently in California, and I can say with a degree of certainty that it has made the roads less safe.
Why? Because now, instead of holding the phones up to their ears while keeping their eyes on the road, people are looking down at their phone and texting.
Oh, and it's been a lot of fun watching people drive right by police officers while talking on a cell phone, seeing the cop look at the driver, and not even bothering to do anything.
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