By your logic jayx1, drunken driving should also fall under "dangerous driving".

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Originally posted by MarkT fair enough...I agree that studies should be conducted to see if that is the case (if they don't already exist). IMHO, the studies would back up the claims, but I'd defer to the experts. on a side note, I trust that you feel exactly the same way about the CPC's street racing legislation? After all, every jurisdiction in the country already has speeding and dangerous driving laws on the books, right?

yeah i didnt think the street racing law was justified after i though about it.

And u definately think going after suped up cars is very wrong.

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Originally posted by jester Everything in this country is illegal.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur By your logic jayx1, drunken driving should also fall under "dangerous driving".

being drunk and having a conversation are 2 different items that have been proven.

What i am asking is for a comparison to be made between cell phones and normal conversations/eating/other things that arent illegal.

if the differences are minimal, then they should either ban everything (which they wont) or STFU

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Originally posted by jester Everything in this country is illegal.

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‎"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law" - Winston Churchill

But they already showed that people driving with cellphones are as bad as people who drive drunk, and since drunk driving is outlawed, so should be cellphone driving.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur But they already showed that people driving with cellphones are as bad as people who drive drunk, and since drunk driving is outlawed, so should be cellphone driving.

source?

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Originally posted by jester Everything in this country is illegal.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 source?

First page, Firestarter's post:

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People conversing on cell phones while behind the wheel performed just as poorly in a driving simulator as those with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08%, the level at which someone can be convicted of drunken driving in Michigan and most states, according to psychologists at the University of Utah.

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hmmmmm well then i guess im drunk driving every day then!

(somehow i doubt it)

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Originally posted by jester Everything in this country is illegal.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 If you can demonstrate that its worse than talking to your passenger, eating a sandwich etc etc then id support it. But i just dont see it as a problem on that scale. We already have laws for dangerous driving. Why cant we just enforce that instead? The answer is because then it doesnt give politicians headlines, thats why. They had the same debat back in the 30s when they put radios in cars. The EXACT same debate in fact.

You can't compare them, they're the same problem, they're both distractions!

http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/safe...ne_driving.html

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so lets ban radios!

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Originally posted by jester Everything in this country is illegal.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 so lets ban radios!

I'm pretty sure there have been accidents because of that; to think otherwise would be a little naive.

Why else would manufacturers start making the radio/stereo controls built into the steering wheel?

Can't sell to a dead cusomter now can you?

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