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Modern society demands that people be contactable during working hours and this is largely thanks to the mobile phone.
But the one place that should be cellphone-free is the car.
A study by the US Department of Transportation found that drivers using wireless communication devices are four times as likely to cause an accident and as likely as a person with the blood alcohol content of 0.08.
Furthermore the use of a hands-free headset does not eliminate the risk of a serious accident. It is not only holding a phone that is distracting but the act of communicating while driving that is a threat to road safety.
The recommendation from this study was that drivers not use wireless communication devices including texting.
The results were suppressed because, according to The New York Times article, the former head of the highway safety agency was “urged to withhold the research to avoid antagonizing members of Congress who had warned the agency to stick to its mission of gathering safety data but not to lobby states.”
In South Africa our roads are hazardous enough without drivers upping the risk of an accident by calling while on the road. I’m all for banning cellphone use in motor vehicles.
But the one place that should be cellphone-free is the car.
A study by the US Department of Transportation found that drivers using wireless communication devices are four times as likely to cause an accident and as likely as a person with the blood alcohol content of 0.08.
Furthermore the use of a hands-free headset does not eliminate the risk of a serious accident. It is not only holding a phone that is distracting but the act of communicating while driving that is a threat to road safety.
The recommendation from this study was that drivers not use wireless communication devices including texting.
The results were suppressed because, according to The New York Times article, the former head of the highway safety agency was “urged to withhold the research to avoid antagonizing members of Congress who had warned the agency to stick to its mission of gathering safety data but not to lobby states.”
In South Africa our roads are hazardous enough without drivers upping the risk of an accident by calling while on the road. I’m all for banning cellphone use in motor vehicles.