Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying

Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by t-writescode on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:46PM (#21716299)

Permanent? For touching your cell phone? With no consideration of the circumstances? A mandatory minimum sentence of permanent removal of driving privileges for touching a phone?

How do you define touching the phone? Can you imagine some circumstances where that shouldn’t be a permanent removal of driving privileges?

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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by SauciestGNU on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:10PM (#21716552)

For distracted/technologically impaired driving, which in my mind is using technology in some empirically-defined unsafe manner. How we would determine that threshold is something we as a society would have to determine, but I would hope that we would use evidence-based processes to make that determination.

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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by t-writescode on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:35PM (#21716825)

I just look at laws and how they’re set up now; and I just can’t imagine the legislature actually doing what you want.

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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by SauciestGNU on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:52PM (#21716999)

You're in all likelihood correct, but that's the sort of policy I would hope for.

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