Comments on: No Distractions http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/01/no-distractions.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Thu, 24 May 2012 12:24:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: bubba http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/01/no-distractions.html/comment-page-1#comment-5121 bubba Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:59:07 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=12610#comment-5121 * Regulators want to make sure drivers can think about nothing but the road in front of them * Don't know why my opening comment didn't post, but this is what I was replying to. * Regulators want to make sure drivers can think about nothing but the road in front of them *

Don’t know why my opening comment didn’t post, but this is what I was replying to.

]]> By: bubba http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/01/no-distractions.html/comment-page-1#comment-5120 bubba Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:58:09 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=12610#comment-5120 <> And there is something WRONG with that? Considering that the average family vehicle is now a truck that weighs in excess of 2 tons, you're damn right I want drivers to be focused on the road in front of them. My jaw dropped when I read this. Does Sara read, apply makeup, or eat while driving too? People think speed kills...it's not speed, it's inattention to the road that kills. Sure, it's crazy that we are forced to try and legislate common sense, but given this "I've got better things to do than pay full attention to the road" attitude, it seems we really have no choice. <>

And there is something WRONG with that? Considering that the average family vehicle is now a truck that weighs in excess of 2 tons, you’re damn right I want drivers to be focused on the road in front of them. My jaw dropped when I read this. Does Sara read, apply makeup, or eat while driving too? People think speed kills…it’s not speed, it’s inattention to the road that kills. Sure, it’s crazy that we are forced to try and legislate common sense, but given this “I’ve got better things to do than pay full attention to the road” attitude, it seems we really have no choice.

]]> By: Jake Voss http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/01/no-distractions.html/comment-page-1#comment-5084 Jake Voss Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:10:33 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=12610#comment-5084 I have mixed feelings about this law. For one thing, even if passed, it would be difficult to enforce. The younger the driver, probably the better at texter. They can do it with the cell phone obstructed from view, well below the steering wheel. (Unless of course, they own an iPhone, which is impossible to text on without looking at the screen.) i think Martin Scorsese know all about this notion. http://popwatch.ew.com/2007/02/22/the_award_for_b/ I imagine this law will be followed as often as speed limits, and enforced as strictly too. Its main purpose seems to be just to have a law on the books to curb the public outcry from parent's groups that nothing is being done to protect the children. Oh won't somebody think of the children!?! (That one was for you, @joshsmith.) I have mixed feelings about this law. For one thing, even if passed, it would be difficult to enforce. The younger the driver, probably the better at texter. They can do it with the cell phone obstructed from view, well below the steering wheel. (Unless of course, they own an iPhone, which is impossible to text on without looking at the screen.) i think Martin Scorsese know all about this notion.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2007/02/22/the_award_for_b/

I imagine this law will be followed as often as speed limits, and enforced as strictly too. Its main purpose seems to be just to have a law on the books to curb the public outcry from parent’s groups that nothing is being done to protect the children. Oh won’t somebody think of the children!?! (That one was for you, @joshsmith.)

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