News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying. Parent comment

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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]