{"id":3460,"date":"2008-04-10T10:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-10T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T08:42:30","slug":"sweden-to-ban-talking-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/3460-sweden-to-ban-talking-while-driving.html","title":{"rendered":"Sweden to ban talking while driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden is one of only a handful of countries in Europe that still allows motorists to use mobile handsets, and has long argued that the conversation itself presents the biggest distraction and danger to road safety.<\/p>\n<p>The change proposed on Wednesday was aimed at harmonising Sweden&#39;s legislation with that of other European countries, including neighbouring Denmark, Norway and Finland.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Mobile calls with so-called hands-free equipment will still be allowed, as long as the call does not prevent the motorist from driving safely,&quot; the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, which has been submitted to the government, must be put before parliament for approval but is widely expected to pass.<\/p>\n<p>It recommends that violators be punished with a fine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Road Administration on Wednesday proposed a ban on motorists using mobile phone handsets while at the wheel, urging them to instead use hands-free devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}