Ban Mobile Phone Use While Driving

mobile only for business persons not every body using from child hood they are using mobile plz ban mobile for using also health problems for everybody from sixth to inter they are using and engineering persons using from mrng to evening that waste especially for girls24 hrs that only

Long overdue. I have had the horrifying experience of watching a POLICE OFFICER chatting on a cellphone turning directly into the path of my car. I stopped not more than 6 inches away from her car, leaving a trail of smoking rubber. Let me note, that I am a journalist...I love to be, immediately, in touch, but, after more than 50 years of driving everything on wheels under every condition, I will not use a cellphone while driving!

It doesn't matter how many studies prove how lethal cell phone usage is, the commenters will continue to compare them to a car radio or french fries because they don't want to hear it. Cell phones uniquely put your brain live at the other end of the line when it needs to be at this end. "Our dog is chasing the neighbor!" or a thousand and one situations like it, and your mind has evaporated while your body is hurtling along the highway.

Great more laws based on "What if's". I'll get a ticket for using my cell phone in the car because "what if" I caused an accident, even though I haven't. I drive with my cell phone just fine. I'm cognizant of the situation. I look around a lot while using it. When dialing a number I wait until am in light traffic and never in heavy traffic. Why then should there be an law to protect against something that may or may not happen? With that kind of logic why haven't we outlawed the use of cars? Obviously, they increase the chances of death and injury. Do they not?

Leave it up to the states. I am against more regulation but if need be leave it up to the states. I would agree with first making a license a much harder thing to get and keep. Making sure that we are up to date with laws and driving skills. Make sure people understand it is a privilege not a right.

To give the law some enforcement 'teeth', allow police to check the phone logs of drivers involved in accidents or traffic violations. If the logs reveal the phone was in use at the time of the event, they would be charged with impaired driving.

I read the comments and everyone seems soooo angry and in some cases just down right mean spirited... Although given the current state of affairs in the USA I'd say that we have alot to be angry about! While I agree with making the roads a safer place, I am not so sure the answer is to place BANS on cell phones. Has anyone considered requiring ALL drivers to take (and pass) a "safe drivers" test say once every 4 years or when your license expire?? OR requiring drivers to take an actual road test. If anyone fails the test, then they would not be allowed to have a license until they can successfully pass.

Soon they're gonna ban drivers from having people in their car's talking to them.

I am very happy to hear the discussion going on. I too think the time has come to ban use of cell phones while driving. Eventhough I do use the cell phone while driving I try to limit it as much as I can as I have had a few "close calls" while on my bluetooth headset. Think about it this way...we would now gain downtime..gee what a great thought and healthy as well.

I VOTE "YES" FOR ELIMINATING CELL PHONES FROM CARS - ALL STATES

Make everybodys cellphone # the same as their license plate. See if that doesn't get them driving better. Its a nice idea, but enforcing it would be almost impossible.

New Jersey is jammed with badly trained drivers using poor judgment. The deadly combinations are one of these drivers tired, drunk or on the phone. Everyone thinks it is the other guy and they can drive skillfully while distracted or impaired. It just is not so,

ew, yes, a ban on kids! less potential for future cell phone users. less crowding on the roads! i like it!

I love to drive on the interstate and when I get close to someone talking on a cell phone, I will lay on the horn. Most of the time you can see them jump almost out of their skin. They are so jumpy because they were distracted and did not even know if they had done something wrong.

I have always been a proponet of issuing tickets for distractive driving (kid yelling, food eating, etc.) if the result is an accident, Data now shows that cell phone use is a higher accident risk You folks who say 'not me' need to wake up and smell the coffee

As I am a computer technician my job puts me on the local roads all day long and yes I do use my cell while driving (hands free device). But I can tell you that cell phones being held to your head is far more distracting then a hands free device. I have had countless close calls with stupid a-holes who are holding a cell phone to their head!!!

This is another attempt to pass an unenforceable law to assuage a special interest group. Too many other laws exist to deal with distracted driving. Enforce what's on the books before starting up some new crusade.

It is imperative that we ban cell phone usage while drivinig. It has caused numerous fatalities and only because someone wants to catch up on office gossip or chat with their friends. Does one realise this can cost lives and fatal injuries and even lifetime handicap. All cos you feel the need to talk on the phone. If it is that important stop the car at the nearest exit and chatter away. It is quite shocking that several third world countries have banned the use of cell phones and are aware of its implications. And we - the most progressive country on the planet has lagged behind in keeping up with the times and the law. We should have stringent punishment for folks who are caught driving .... just the way have for DUI. Wake up America

what about taxi drivers, or the police on CB or other radios? Rediculous to say hands free is bad. Theres been widespread use of similar tech for decades.

I don't see them talking about banning all drive through restaurants. Surely these purveyors of death have contributed to many fatal accidents. I can't wait until they start giving out tickets for open hamburger bags. Bring on the Food Police!

why don't you also ban radios in cars!!! be real hands-free phones wont cause accidents

I absolutely agree in banning all cell phones while driving. In NYpeople ingore the ban and do it anyway. How about lost of licence for 30 days? That will gwet their attention

After hands free devices are banned, lets remove all radios, CD players, DVD players. These are all distracting. Lets ban singing to the radio also, this is too distracting, and lets not forget to ban conversation with the passengers.

"The Council wants the ban to include use of hands-free phones too as they are just as risky as handhelds as the driver's attention is not fully on the road. "It's time to take the cellphone away," Froetscher says." Whats next? Ban raidos? Talking to passangers? How many times have you seen someone swerving because they yelled at the kids in the back seat? Will they ban kids too? Stopping texting is a no brainer, but come on... Lets ban coffee too, because some old lady might spill it and burn herself and have an accident. Lets enforce some of the laws we allready have, instead of creating more that will be largely ignored.

Not even hands free? Not happening...this would be taken as seriously as speed limits.

How about public safety workers using radios. I know they use sirens but I wonder how many accidents are caused by their divided attention while driving.

NO cellphones, period !! I pray this happens absolutely IMMEDIATELY worldwide !!! Please !! Thanks